A Century in Photographs: Gardening

A Century in Photographs: Gardening
ISBN-10
000710409X
ISBN-13
9780007104093
Category
Gardening / General
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Royal Horticultural Society
Author
Mark Griffiths

Description

The Times: A Century of Photographs - Gardening combines two of this century's best loved passions - gardening and photography. Over 300 photographs - a mixture of b/w and colour - have been chosen for their humour, charm, aesthetic, curiosity and historical value. Some are hauntingly beautiful, others remarkably rare. Others still depict not only garden history, but social history in the making - snapshots, for example, of gardens in the Second World War when every spare yard of soil (castle moats, royal parks and polo grounds included) was devoted to vegetable production. Arranged chronologically, the photographs are each accompanied by an explanatory caption.

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