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Virago Publishes Catherine Horwood's history of women gardeners
Posted by Donna Coonan in Book News
It's the Chelsea Flower Show this month and what better time to dip into Gardening Women by Catherine Horwood.
Here's a quick precis of the book:
From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today’s 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 women’s 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 society’s attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species – gardening women.
To find out more about Catherine, please visit her website at www.gardeningwomen.com.
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I gave a copy of Gardening Women to my mum-in-law – an extremely keen gardener and local horticultural prize-winner numerous times over – for her 60th birthday and she was absolutely delighted!