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The Passionate Gardener

By Rudolf Borchardt

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The Passionate Gardener

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This book is no mere gardening how-to, though it contains a wealth of practical information for every serious gardener. Rather, The Passionate Gardener is a unique book about a celebrated German poet's remarkable search for the relationship between human society and the vegetable kingdom. As Borchardt pursues his image of the garden, the reader becomes entranced by the quest. The first few chapter titles suggest the dimensions of Borchardt's undertaking: "The Flower and the Human Being," "The Garden and the Human Being," "The Garden and the New Flowers," etc. At one level, this history of plants and gardens becomes a fascinating tale of how they were brought from their original locales to those in which we find them today, and the colonial empires that sent botanists and collectors across the earth in search of new, rare, incomparable flowers. Moreover, it is a story of the breeding of plants, and of the hybridization of their forms and colors: a story of human respect for natural givens, but equally of the human ability to grasp and further the development of natural possibilities. Finally, it is about the Roman, Persian, Oriental, Medieval, Baroque, Italian, French, Austrian, English, American and African garden traditions that have collaborated and fused with one another in the service of a common and higher ideal. Yet amidst all this, Rudolf Borchardt detects a still larger story concerning the inescapable connection between the garden and the fundamental structures of civilization, and that is the genius of this book.
Product details
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
2006-05-01
Publication Date:
2006-06-01
Publisher:
McPherson
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0929701739
ISBN13:
9780929701738
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
626 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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