Adventures of a Gardener. Christopher Brickell & David Joyce

Christopher Brickell & David Joyce

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propagation and cultivation of lavender in New Zealand gardens

and by the shifting fortunes of the principal export crops

Woodbridge

Adventures of a Gardener. Christopher Brickell & David JoycePeter 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