- Published: 30 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781905811922
- Imprint: Eden Project Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $38.00
The Origin Of Plants
- Published: 30 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781905811922
- Imprint: Eden Project Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $38.00
'An impressive work in both scope and detail. The story is a fascinating one ... A most welcome and accessible reference work.'
The Times Literary Supplement
'Tim Smit, restorer of the gardens at Heligan, claims that post-ice age Britain had fewer plants than any region in the world. Yet today it boasts the "widest range of any nation on earth". The extraordinary explosion in biodiversity over the past millennium is the subject of this fascinating work.'
Financial Times
'THE ORIGIN OF PLANTS is not only a good read, but it is a gardening, history and reference book skilfully interwoven. I am now able to enjoy the people and history associated with a lot more of my garden plants, thereby adding a further dimension to my gardening.'
Western Morning News
Full of facts and legends, [The Origin of Plants] will appeal to both the general reader and the more-difficult-to-please scholars. It not only encompasses a thousand years of plant history - tracing the story of a plant's arrival in Britain and its subsequent development for garden-worthiness - but sets gardening in a social context in each era. It should be on every gardener's bookshelf.
Gardens Illustrated