Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Autumn and Winter.

Facsimile of 1915 edition. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1998. 15 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 282 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes the following essays: Map of Myddleton House Gardens / Preface by Charles Elliott / The Passing of Summer / Autumn Crocuses / Early September / Mid-September / Colchicums / Autumn Composites / September’s Farewell / The Rarer Crocuses / Before the Frost / Autumnal Tints / After the Frost / Evergreens / Ferns Berries / In the Grip of Winter / Nomenclatural Update by Peter Barnes.

″My Garden in Autumn and Winter concludes the three-volume chronicle of a master gardener’s year. Facing the “unwelcome” advent of winter, Edward Augustus Bowles (1865-1954) does not flinch from remarking on the decline of many of the treasured plants we have come to know in My Garden in Spring and My Garden in Summer. But this is no elegy to the garden. The author’s encyclopedic knowledge of plants shines through these pages and disproves the myth that autumn and winter are only a time to put the garden to sleep. No passionate gardener will leave this book without a long list of intriguing and attractive plants to try in the colder months, or without ideas to keep the garden fresh and alive even during the darkest days. This edition is complete with a full update of plant names compiled by botanist Peter Barnes and a new preface by Charles Elliott. A map of Bowles’s garden at Myddelton House has also been included.”(Amazon)

• Keywords: Flowers · Garden · Garden Collection – Ann Geneva · Garden Design – Collection · Garden Design – Rare · Garden history · Gardening · Library & Collection Building · Plants
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780881924596
• Inventory Number: 72419AB