New Shoots, Old Tips

New Shoots, Old Tips

by Caroline Holmes (Author)

Synopsis

As heard on BBC Radio 4, broadcaster Caroline Holmes conducts a tour through gardening tips and tales down the ages, from the biblical Noah, who 'began to be a husbandsman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was drunken' to George Bernard Shaw - 'Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.' The range of advice is wide in scope, and includes the prescriptions of Roman writers, medieval folklore, descriptions of lost gardens, old wives' tales and modern authorities. On any given topic, from seed saving to vegetable growing to garden tools, New Shoots, Old Tips presents thousands of years of wit and wisdom. New Shoots, Old Tips received the Garden Writers' Guild Radio Broadcast of the Year Award 2001.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 01 May 2004

ISBN 10: 071122367X
ISBN 13: 9780711223677

Author Bio
Caroline Holmes is a journalist and broadcaster. In addition to New Shoots, Old Tips she has devised and presented many radio and television programmes including Women in Roman Gardens, The Town Garden and The Night Garden. She is the author of Monet at Giverny and Small Victorian Gardens. She has run courses on garden history for the Museum of Garden History and Cambridge University and lectures regularly in the United States.