Bøker av Ursula Buchan

A revised edition of the best-selling classic exploring the English garden, engagingly narrated, illustrated by over 350 colour photographs: armchair garden-visiting at its best.

A glorious photographic record of the postwar English gardening scene by one of the people at its epicentre. Roald Dahl and his family in their garden at Great Missenden; Nancy Lancaster, society hostess and interior designer, sporting an elegant straw sombrero and snipping delicately at her roses; Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst - these and many other dedicated gardeners are captured here by the discerning eye of Valerie Finnis. With a spectacular cast of characters at home in their gardens, weeding, inspecting, watering and standing proudly by their plants, wearing the clothes and fashions of the day, and epitomizing life and society in the second half of the 20th century, this book will be devoured by anyone with a love of British gardens or horticulture in general.

Gardening in wartime Britain was a part of the fight for freedom. This book tells the story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its citizens to grow their own fruit and vegetables.