Adventures of a Gardener. Fine illustrations throughout

Fine illustrations throughout

A comprehensive and scholarly account of the history

propagation and cultivation of lavender in New Zealand gardens

show the twig

and by the shifting fortunes of the principal export crops

Adventures of a Gardener. Fine illustrations throughoutPeter Smithers. Sir Peter Smithers created four great gardens in his life, reaching maturity with that at Vico Morcote in Switzerland where, over a quarter century, he designed an ecosystem of exotics replete with magnolias, rhododendrons, camellias and tree peonies. The garden eventually contained more than ten thousand species and varieties of plant. This book is his reflections on the place and meaning of gardening in his life, and is illustrated