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

by Toby Musgrave and Mike Calnan

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905400462
• ISBN13: 9781905400461
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: National Trust
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.7"