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Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)

By Reginald Arkell

Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden (Modern Library Gardening) Contemporary literature

Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)

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Back in print after fifty years Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous,” the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, "so blue, so blue it positively hurts.” Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal—and crotchety—head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house. This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Penelope Hobhouse, a renowned garden designer and lecturer and the author of numerous gardening books.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2003-04-15
Publication Date:
2003-04-15
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0812967380
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1050 g
Height:
20.3 cm
Width:
12.9 cm
Thickness:
1 cm
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