The secrets of great botanists : and what they teach us about gardening / Matthew Biggs
- Bib ID:
- 7898925
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Biggs, Matthew, author
- Description:
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- Chatswood, NSW : Exisle Publishing, 2019
- ©2019
- 224 pages, 41 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925820256 (hardback)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 1925820254
- Summary:
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“Botanists are the trailblazers who first discovered how plants work and collected from around the world many of the species that we find in our gardens today. This informative and beautiful guide presents the stories of 36 plant collectors and gardening pioneers of the past and present, including Joseph Banks, Asa Gray and Marianne North. Arranged in chronological order, the botanists are discussed in separate profiles, presenting their life stories, discoveries and legacy, while special feature pages reveal their secrets, exploring the qualities that brought them success and showing what ordinary gardeners can learn from them. Illustrated with beautiful period botanical watercolours and vibrant photographs. The Secrets of Great Botanists will provide inspiration and practical guidance for gardeners of all levels, from successful plant cultivation to adding interest to your garden.”--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- Pedanius Dioscorides
- Leonhart Fuchs
- William Turner
- John Ray
- Mary Somerset
- Henry Compton
- William Dampier
- John Bartram
- Carl Linneaus
- Jeanne Baret
- Joseph Banks
- James Edward Smith
- Philipp Franz von Siebold
- John Lindley
- Anna Atkins
- Georgina Molloy
- Asa Gray
- William Colenso
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- George Mendel
- Marianne North
- Luther Burbank
- Henry Nicholas Ridley
- Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe
- George Forrest
- Ernest Wilson
- Francis Kingdon-Ward
- Nikolai Vavilov
- Carl Rudolf Florin
- E. K. Jannaki Ammal
- William Stearn
- Richard Evans Schultes
- Mikinori Ogisu
- Bleddyn & Sue Wynn-Jones
- Patrick Blanc
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits.
- Notes:
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- Illustrations on end papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.
- Subject:
- Genre/Form:
- Biographies
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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