The humble allotment has a surprisingly turbulent history. Initially the right to an allotment was proposed as a charitable means by which the poor could grow their own food and...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Twigs Way.
This is the intriguing story of garden gnomes and how they have come to reside in the flowerbeds of gardens across Britain. Originating in Europe, gnomes made the leap across th...
Topiary, the art of creating sculpture in clipped plants, originated with the Romans and experienced periods of popularity during the Renaissance and Jacobean eras. However, as...
Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combined beauty and utility, pride and productivity. But what was the reality of the space immortalis...
Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for the superb use of colour sc...
A study of the impact of imparkment on the social landscape of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire from c1080 to 1760
Twigs Way · ISBN 9780860549093
Julkaistu 1997 Kieli englanti muu
Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture, the "Allotment and Garden Guides" were issued monthly throughout 1945. Aimed at the amateur gardener, they were to be the final rallying...
Allotments are a much-loved part of every British city, town and many villages. At the height of their popularity around the Second World War, allotments were increasingly negle...
England is a nation of gardeners and most of us garden in suburbia. A private paradise encompassed by privet, the suburban garden contains in its small compass the hopes and dre...
Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the tulip as the florist's favourite f...
‘This War is a Food War…’ In 1941 Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, was determined that the Garden Front would save England: ‘Dig for Victory’ was the slogan, digging for dinner...
Drawing its allure from the gold of the sun and the rule of emperors, the chrysanthemum winds its way through ancient Chinese culture into the gardens of French Impressionist pa...
An A-Z of Animals in the Garden
Twigs Way · ISBN 9781803993850
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti pokkari
From alpacas to zebus, crocodiles to wombats, journey through the individual histories of bizarre garden pets and their often bizarre owners. Who would dream of keeping a bear i...
A History of Women in the Garden
Twigs Way · ISBN 9781803994758
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti pokkari
From the early misfortunes of Eve, condemning her descendants to a dubious reputation for fruit management, to the acclaimed successes of plant breeders such as the eccentric El...
A sunlit lawn, blossom-laden trees, rustic chairs around tables laden with teapots and cakes, the tinkle of teacups and the murmur of conversation – what could be more British t...
Digging for Victory
Twigs Way; Mike Brown · ISBN 9780955272370
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti sidottu
Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey just how vital gardening and growing food were to the British war effort during th...
Contrived, colourful and cultured, the Tudor garden was a paradise on earth, given over to pleasurable pastimes and aesthetic effect. Artificiality was the fashion of the age, w...
52 Ways to Find Your Smile Coloring Challenge: A year long journey of coloring and self discovery. Mandalas and weekly prompts.
Twigs Greenpage · ISBN 9781688605008
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
Nuit of the Milky Way: Alchemical Journeys of the Questing Twins
Fellowship of Isis; Olivia Robertson · ISBN 9781535070911
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti nidottu
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys – A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way
Richard Twiss · ISBN 9780830844234
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Missio Alliance Essential Reading List One of Seedbed's 10 Notable Books The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. The history of North Am...