In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II; a horticultural revolution took place in England; making it a leading player in the European horticultural game. Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners; botanists; scholars; and courtiers; and the burgeoning vernacular book trade spread this new knowledge still furthermdash;reaching even the growing number of gardeners furnishing their more modest plots across the verdant nation and its young colonies in the Americas.Margaret Willes introduces a plethora of garden enthusiasts; from the renowned to the legions of anonymous workers who created and tended the great estates. Packed with illustrations from the herbals; design treatises; and practical manuals that inspired these menmdash;and occasionally womenmdash;Willess book enthrallingly charts how Englands garden grew.
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