Gardening Women-VIRAGO: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present

Gardening Women-VIRAGO: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present by delete Horwood, Catherine. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781844084630.

From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to todays gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening twenty-five years before womens horticultural schools officially existed. And their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day. From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in societys attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species -- gardening women.