An Irishman's Cuttings by E Nelson

An Irishman's Cuttings by E Nelson

An 'Irishman's cutting' in garden parlance has well-formed roots before it is detached from the parent plant. Like the garden variety, the cuttings in this book have deep roots in the gardens of Ireland and among plantsmen, of both sexes, with Irish 'roots'. These cuttings are amusing, interesting tales of gardeners, plant-hunters and plants discovered near home or in faraway places, sometimes after great hardships. There are stories of eccentric, opinionated Irish gardeners and plants they cherished, propagated and passed on. A well-stocked garden in the 1730s had oranges and lemons, Cork had a botanic garden from 1808 to 1828. The Master of Belgrove in Cork, William Robinson, publishing The Wild Garden in 1870, a beautiful lady swapping parasol covers for funckias, and Praeger botanizing in the Canaries, are among these inimitable plantsmen. Another lady described herself as an ignorant small woman with a job six times too big for herA, yet created a beautiful botanic garden in Burma. And, the biographies are retold of some fascinating plants, such as the Killarney fern, the 'last rose of summer', and the tippitiwitchet, each with an idiosyncratic Irish connection. Each essay is an Irishman's cutting in another way, having been first published in The Irish Garden magazine, for which Charles Nelson has written since 1992. They are all well rooted.

'Beautifully furnished with photographs and botanical illustrations' Michael Viney, The Irish Times 'A pleasant and elegant book' Books Ireland 'Varied and cheerfully erudite' The Irish Garden 'Highly entertaining and skillfully produced tome' Sunday Independent 'A joy to immerse ones self in' Irish Examiner 'A book to be leafed through over time, enjoyed on a cold, wet day' The Cottage Gardener 'This book will not disappoint' Heathers magazine

Dr Charles Nelson was senior research botanist and horticultural taxonomist at the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin. He is the author or co-author of more than two dozen books about plants and gardens, and presented a series of programmes about Irish gardeners for RTAe as well as contributing over many years to the radio programme 'Sunday Miscellany.'

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ISBN 13	9781848890053
ISBN 10	1848890052
Titel	An Irishman's Cuttings
Autor	E Nelson
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Gill
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-03-01
Seitenanzahl	224
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