Seven Deadly Sins of Gardening: And the Vices and Virtues of Gardeners

by Toby Musgrave

For a lighthearted look at the history of gardens through the characters who owned and created them, this book offers stories of greed, gluttony, pride, lust, wrath, sloth and envy, alongside the glaring opposite – tales of great kindness, love and generosity.From the garden owner who blew more money on ferns in one shopping trip than she paid her Head Gardener in a year, to Winston Churchill, wading knee-deep in the mud of his beloved garden at Chartwell, and from the intrepid plant hunters of the 19th century to the landowner who replaced an entire village with a more attractive bluebell wood, these stories of gardens, their owners and their gardeners are filled with history and intrigue.

Genres: Gardening

176 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[Amanda Kotchon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Entertaining concept but not particularly engaging writing. Some errors in the text and frequent re-use of sentence fragments.

[Terry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stories from Trust gardens some interesting, some fantastic, generally a great collection.