The Cottage Garden
by
Twigs Way
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Shire Library
ISBN-10
074780818X
ISBN-13
9780747808183
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Shire Publications
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 10th, 2011
Print length
64 Pages
Weight
168 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 15.00 x 0.60 cms
Product Classification:
British & Irish historyHistory: specific events & topicsGardens (descriptions, history etc)
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Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combines beauty and utility, pride and productivity. Gardens did not just appeal to the senses, however: they played a philosophical and moral role in society, and thus in our social history.
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 immortalised in images of thatched cottages with floral borders and ducks on the path? For many the garden was crucial in keeping food on the table, for many simply a status symbol and blaze of colour; and gardens did not just appeal to the senses, but played a philosophical and moral role in society, and thus in our social history. Visions of the rural cottager were never far from the mind of the Victorian middle classes, whether as a shining example to the indigent urban poor or as an aesthetic and social ideal of a utopian ''merrie England''. The Cottage Garden is the history of this varied and important phenomenon and its myriad concepts and incarnations.
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