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The Secrets of Great Botanists : and what they teach us about gardening

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "Botanists have been the trailblazers in discovering how plants work to benefit our species, collecting many of the plant-species we find in our gardens today from all around the world. This informative and beautiful guide presents the stories and reveals the secrets of 35 of these botanists, plant collectors and gardening pioneers of the past and present. This includes Joseph Banks, Asa Gray and Marianne North, highlighting the qualities that brought them success.

    Every botanist included in The Secrets of Great Botanists was, or is, passionate about their particular specialty. Whether they were searching for plants in wild places, prescribing herbal medicines or forming new structures of plant classification, they were driven by an insatiable desire to learn and discover, so that we, as humans, might benefit from improved crops, medicines or gardens. Through the vibrancy of botanical photographs and beautifully illustrated period botanical watercolours, this book aims to teach readers about the observations, ideas, secrets and discoveries of these ground-breaking botanists. Their influence on gardening and the wider world will provide inspiration and practical guidance for budding gardeners of all levels and inspire readers to try these plants and tips at home."--Publisher information.

  • Place
    Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia
  • Other Id

    QH 26 BIG (Library of Congress Call Number)

    91765 (Cat ID)

    91568 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    The Secrets of Great Botanists : and what they teach us about gardening
  • Primary Maker

     Matthew Biggs

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Exisle Publishing
  • Place
    Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia
  • Date
    2019
  • Physical Description

    224 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9781925820256
  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Botanists--Biography/Library of Congress subject headings

    Nature study

    Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820/Library of Congress subject headings

    Colenso, William, 1811-1899/Library of Congress subject headings

    Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911

  • Content
    Introduction -- Pedanius Dioscorides (c.AD40-90) -- Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566) -- William Turner (c.1508-1568) -- John Ray (1627-1705) -- Mary Somerset (1630-1715) -- Henry Compton (1632-1713) -- William Dampier (1651-1715) -- John Bartram (1699-1777) -- Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) -- Jeanne Baret (1740-1807) -- Joseph Banks (1743-1820) -- James Edward Smith (1759-1828) -- Phillip Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) -- John Lindley (1799-1865) -- Anna Atkins (1799-1871) -- Georgiana Molloy (1805-1843) -- Asa Gray (1810-1888) -- William Colenso (1811-1899) -- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) -- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) -- Marianne North (1830-1890) -- Luther Burbank (1849-1926) -- Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855-1956) -- Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe (1867-1967) -- George Forrest (1873-1932) -- Ernest Wilson (1876-1930) -- Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) -- Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943) -- Carl Rudolf Florin (1894-1965) -- E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984) -- William Stearn (1911-2001) -- Richard Evan Schultes (1915-2001) -- Mikinori Ogisu (born 1951) -- Bleddyn & Sue Wynn-Jones (born 1948 (Bleddyn) and 1952 (Sue)) -- Patrick Blanc (born 1953) -- bibliography -- index -- credits.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Gardens--Design--Miscellanea; Gardeners--Biography]

    Includes bibliographical references.

  • Subject Notes
    Matthew Biggs trained at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has presented numerous TV gardening programs and is a regular on UK radio. Author of and contributor to several books and magazines, Matthew is also a highly regarded lecturer. He has travelled widely and is fascinated by global gardening.
  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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