New Shoots, Old Tips by Caroline Holmes
As heard on BBC Radio 4, broadcaster Caroline Holmes conducts a tour through gardening tips and tales down the ages, from the biblical Noah, who 'began to be a husbandsman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was drunken' to George Bernard Shaw - 'Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.' The range of advice is wide in scope, and includes the prescriptions of Roman writers, medieval folklore, descriptions of lost gardens, old wives' tales and modern authorities. On any given topic, from seed saving to vegetable growing to garden tools, New Shoots, Old Tips presents thousands of years of wit and wisdom. New Shoots, Old Tips received the Garden Writers' Guild Radio Broadcast of the Year Award 2001.
Caroline Holmes is a journalist and broadcaster. In addition to New Shoots, Old Tips she has devised and presented many radio and television programmes including Women in Roman Gardens, The Town Garden and The Night Garden. She is the author of Monet at Giverny and Small Victorian Gardens. She has run courses on garden history for the Museum of Garden History and Cambridge University and lectures regularly in the United States.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780711223677 |
| ISBN 10 | 071122367X |
| Title | New Shoots, Old Tips |
| Author | Caroline Holmes |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2004-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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