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100 1 $aWay, Twigs,$eauthor.
245 12 $aA passion for gardening :$bhow the British became a nation of gardeners /$cTwigs Way ; forward by Joe Swift.
264 1 $aLondon :$bPrion,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a192 pages :$bcolour illustrations ;$c25 cm
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505 0 $aIntroduction -- A garden is a lovesome thing -- What the Victorians dug for us: innovation and inspiration -- Sowing the seed: gardening for children -- The garden beautiful: Edwardian extravagance -- Ladies in bloomers: women and the garden -- The inter-war years: new homes, new gardens -- Allotment fever -- Digging for victory, digging for peace -- Nurseries and seedsmen -- Gnome for gnome: suburbia in the 1950s and '60s -- Going wild with decking -- The garden museum.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Nosatalgic images of gardening through the ages ... from the people who have tended their own gardens, or the horticultural experts who have influenced our garden designs or plants, to the literature and advertisements that have proliferated through the ages, containing everything from the latest lawn mower to government pamphlets of wartime, urging the country to "Dig for Victory" ... [this] celebrates the fashions and fads that have come and gone through hundreds of years of tending our 'little bits of earth'"--Publisher's description.
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