The Brother Gardeners
Book description
From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the botanical world.
“Wulf’s flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio, and a charmingly airy style. ... A delightful book—and you don’t need to be a gardener to…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Brother Gardeners as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Gardening is indeed an obsession, which can drive men and women to madness and penury. It is fuelled by competition, the desire to have the latest, most exotic specimen. Andrea Wulf captures beautifully the mania for American plants which swept across English gardens in the 1700s, as the plant-hunter John Bartram of Virginia teamed up with the London merchant, Peter Collinson, to import boxes of plants and seeds into the UK. If they survived the long sea voyage, they were then nurtured by English aristocrats and their head gardeners, at vast expense, before becoming so common that few gardeners in…
From Roderick's list on the history of the gardening industry.
Want books like The Brother Gardeners?
Our community of 10,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Brother Gardeners.
Browse books like The Brother Gardeners
5 book lists we think you will like!
Interested in gardening, botany, and London?
10,000+ authors have recommended their favorite books and what they love about them. Browse their picks for the best books about gardening, botany, and London.