From the golden age in English history to today s gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women s contributions to gardening in Britain and around the w

Countless garden books tell us what, when, where and how to plant. Few explore the reasons why gardening becomes central to so many people's lives. In Garden Vo

Women and Gardens celebrates the achievements of women in gardening and horticultural history. Today, women outnumber men in landscape architecture and related

Sue Bennett charts the relationship between women and gardens from Elizabethan times to the present day. This study is packed with portraits, garden plans, engr

From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today's gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs