Beautiful madness
Subtitle: one man's journey through other people's gardens
By: by James Dodson.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Dodson, James; Gardening
Description: Accounts of the Philadelphia Flower Show and the Chelsea Garden Show reveal what the author learned about some of the Western world's most influential gardens and gardeners and describe some of the more exotic plants presented at the shows.
Table of contents: title: Plant nerds in the mist; title: Slightly off in the woods; title: The Botticelli of Bulbs; title: Garden lust; title: In a philosopher's garden; title: Garden club confidential; title: Lost gardens; title: Old men, young gardeners; title: Diarmuid's balls, gentle chaos, and the mad man of Kew; title: Stalking the wild pelargonium; title: At play in a garden of heaven; title: I was here.