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Monty DonI think this is the best gardening book ever written. It’s perfect. As a book it is incredibly personal, which I also love. (Source)
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Monty DonThis was the first gardening book I ever owned. I still have that original copy. It is so beautiful in a very English, very eccentric way. (Source)
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Monty DonThis is one of the first gardening books that I read as literature. What I really love about her is her low key seriousness. (Source)
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Updated, expanded and illustrated with more than 600 new full-colour photographs, "Classic Roses" is the authoritative history and essential manual for all serious gardeners and rose lovers. It identifies and describes all the species, cultivars and varieties that have stood the test of time, including the ancient Chinese teas, the York and Lancaster roses, the Provence and Bourbons and the humble and hardy rugosas. This definitive work is a grower's guide to the buying, propagation, feeding and pruning of old roses and important hybrids, shrub roses and climbers. There are new and improved... more Updated, expanded and illustrated with more than 600 new full-colour photographs, "Classic Roses" is the authoritative history and essential manual for all serious gardeners and rose lovers. It identifies and describes all the species, cultivars and varieties that have stood the test of time, including the ancient Chinese teas, the York and Lancaster roses, the Provence and Bourbons and the humble and hardy rugosas. This definitive work is a grower's guide to the buying, propagation, feeding and pruning of old roses and important hybrids, shrub roses and climbers. There are new and improved height and colour charts (which make the selection of roses for specific locations easier), as well as up-to-date information on breeding new cultivars, classification and nomenclature, sources of supply, rose societies and outstanding gardens, country by country. Special contributions from United States rose experts include: William Grant on the phenomenon of rose-rustling (finding and conserving old roses) in California, Texas and elsewhere, Malcolm M. Manners on mosaic virus, and Malcolm Lowe on North American pests and diseases. less Monty DonPeter Beales knows everything there is to know about roses. He has forgotten far more about roses than I will ever know. (Source)
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Monty DonThe book is based on the philosophy of gardening where you accept natural intervention as part of the garden. (Source)
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