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A series of interviews with gardeners who have devoted their working lives to creating and nurturing National Trust and private gardens open to the public. Their memories are interspersed with stories, sayings and anecdotes, many of which are drawn from old gardening books and catalogues.
Contents
Never look back - Edgar Spillett, Kent; each man for himself - Peter Pippet, Dorset; the old world - John Borthwick, Northumberland and Bedfordshire; father of arboriculture - Hubert Taylor, Cumbria and London; son of the soil - Tom Long, Hampshire; boys and girls and gardens - Bob Gates, Surrey and Gloucestershire; new potatoes - George Wright, Lothian; rivers and woods - Jack Lilly, Cornwall; they were good times - Dennis Lindup, Clwyd, Bedfordshire and Warwickshire; straight rows are a must - Jim Bourne, Surrey; run rabbit run - Peter Burd, Sutherland; chocolate and flowers - Dick Dobson and Jack Botterill, Birmingham; the beekeeper - H.W. Crowson, Wiltshire; pulling together - the Riley family, Gloucestershire.