Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

by Marta Mcdowell (Author)

Synopsis

Marta McDowell combines the skills of a historian, biographer and gardener as she explores Beatrix Potter's passion for plants. Her book combines rich visuals with quotations from the writer's works, letters and diaries, to introduce the reader to Beatrix Potter's Lake District gardens. The author's passion for her subject and her own horticultural knowledge provide new insights for the reader, as she frames Beatrix Potter's works in the context of her gardening life.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 340
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 05 Nov 2013

ISBN 10: 1604693630
ISBN 13: 9781604693638

Media Reviews
'There are photographs here that I have never seen before of Beatrix and her gardens, and delicious watercolours of rose hips, violets, clematis and honeysuckle, snapdragons and waterlilies.' (Alan Titchmarsh, The Telegraph)
Author Bio
Marta McDowell is a garden consultant, writer and lecturer who also teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden. She is the author of 'Emily Dickinson's Gardens' (McGraw Hill). She is an active member of the Beatrix Potter Society.