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Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous,” the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, "so blue, so blue it positively hurts.” Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal—and crotchety—head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house.
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by
Penelope Hobhouse, a renowned garden designer and lecturer and the author of numerous gardening books.
Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous,” the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, "so blue, so blue it positively hurts.” Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal—and crotchety—head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house.
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by
Penelope Hobhouse, a renowned garden designer and lecturer and the author of numerous gardening books.
Michael Pollan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Botany of Desire (available from Random House Trade Paperbacks) and Second Nature, named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to Harper’s magazine and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 154 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780812967388 |
| ISBN-10: | 0812967380 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Arkell, Reginald |
| Redaktion: | Pollan, Michael |
| Hersteller: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 203 x 133 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Reginald Arkell |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.04.2003 |
| Gewicht: | 0,156 kg |
Michael Pollan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Botany of Desire (available from Random House Trade Paperbacks) and Second Nature, named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to Harper’s magazine and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 154 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780812967388 |
| ISBN-10: | 0812967380 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Arkell, Reginald |
| Redaktion: | Pollan, Michael |
| Hersteller: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 203 x 133 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Reginald Arkell |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.04.2003 |
| Gewicht: | 0,156 kg |
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