Beatrix Potters Gardening Life

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Beatrix Potters Gardening Life Author: Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Timber Press
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Pages: 340 Illustrations and other contents: 163 color photos and illustrat Language: English ISBN: 9781604693638 Category:

Marta McDowell combines the skills of a historian, biographer and gardener as she explores Beatrix Potter’s passion for plants. Her book combines rich visuals with quotations from the writer’s works, letters and diaries, to introduce the reader to Beatrix Potter’s Lake District gardens. The author’s passion for her subject and her own horticultural knowledge provide new insights for the reader, as she frames Beatrix Potter’s works in the context of her gardening life.

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'There are photographs here that I have never seen before of Beatrix and her gardens, and delicious watercolours of rose hips, violets, clematis and honeysuckle, snapdragons and waterlilies.' (Alan Titchmarsh, The Telegraph)

Author Biography

Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. She consults for public gardens and private clients, writes and lectures on gardening topics, and teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, where she studied landscape design. Her particular interest is in authors and their gardens, the connection between the pen and the trowel.