A Gap in the Hedge explores British gardening past and present, as well as some of the odder byways into which a love of plants and gardens has led us. There are accounts of such great plant-hunters as Reginald Farrer and Joseph Rock, master gardeners like Ellen Willmott and Canon Ellacombe, and the undeservedly obscure scientist Jagadis Chunder Bose, whose improbable specialty was research into the emotions of plants. Here too are essays on the difference between gardening and groundskeeping, topiary, mistletoe, orchids, waterlilies, the history of hoses, and much more. Altogether, The Gap in the Hedge is a rich and vastly amusing assembly destined to please anyone interested in Britain, in gardening, or simply in human nature at its least commonplace.
- ISBN10 1558216804
- ISBN13 9781558216808
- Publish Date 1 April 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint The Lyons Press
- Edition First ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 214
- Language English