Down to Earth (Bloomsbury Gardening Classics)

by OsbertLancaster (Illustrator), Anne Scott - James (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $4.34

  First published in 1971, this work provides a miscellany of ideas on many aspects of gardening - from designing and planting to paths and hedgerows, the winter garden and the wild garden, creating windbreaks and filling odd corners - as well as a host of suggestions for books to read and gardens to visit. An amateur gardener herself, Anne Scott-James writes of her own garden, created, she admits with too little time and money and virtually no professional help - full of shortcomings but nevertheless a constant source of pleasure. She also writes of a number of other gardens around Britain, for it is from these gardens that she has collected practical and original hints and ideas from their owner-gardeners.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.34

  First published in 1971, this work provides a miscellany of ideas on gardening - from designing and planting to paths and hedgerows, the winter garden and the wild garden, creating windbreaks and filling odd corners - as well as a host of suggestions for books to read and gardens to visit.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.25

  First published in 1971, Down to Earth is a gardening classic: a treasury of gardening ideas on a wide range of topics. Ideas on designing and planting, ideas for the winter garden and the wild garden, ideas for planting the odd corner or filling the August gap, ideas for hedges and climbing plants, paths and windbreaks, ideas on books to read and gardens to visit. Anne Scott-James, a devoted but amateur gardener, writes about her own garden, made, like so many, with too little time, money and professional help, full of imperfections but a continual source of pleasure. She also writes about many other gardens all over Britain, and the practical and imaginative ideas she has collected from them. The text is engagingly illustrated with cartoons by her husband, Osbert Lancaster.