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As heard on BBC Radio, broadcaster Caroline Holmes conducts a tour through gardening tips and tales down the ages, from the biblical Noah, who began to be a husbandsman, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine and was drunken, to George Bernard Shaw, Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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Caroline Holmes is a journalist and broadcaster. In addition to New Shoots, Old Tips she has devised and presented many radio and television programmes including Women in Roman Gardens, The Town Garden and The Night Garden. She is the author of Monet at Giverny and Small Victorian Gardens. She has run courses on garden history for the Museum of Garden History and Cambridge University and lectures regularly in the United States.
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- PublisherFrances Lincoln Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 071122367X
- ISBN 13 9780711223677
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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