Writing the garden

By Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Subjects: Garten, Documentation, Horticulture, Gardens in literature, Agriculture, bibliography, Literatur, Horticultural literature, Horticulture, bibliography, Gardening in literature, Jardinage dans la littérature

Description: Gardening, more than most outdoor activities, has always attracted a cult of devotedly literate practitioners: people who like to dig, it appears also like to write. Many of them write exceedingly well. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers selects and discusses the best garden writers, picking delightful examples that span two centuries.