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The The Bad Tempered Gardener

By (author) Anne Wareham
Photographs by Charles Hawes
Genres: Memoirs, Gardening
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Published: 5th May 2011
Dimensions: w 171mm h 224mm d 19mm
Weight: 608g
ISBN-10: 0711231508
ISBN-13: 9780711231504
Barcode No: 9780711231504
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Seeing gardening as a serious and even outrageous art form has placed Anne Wareham well outside of what usually passes for discussion of gardens. Impatient with received ideas, eager to provoke, The Bad-Tempered Gardener is the story of her development as a thinking gardener and the creation with her husband, Charles Hawes, of their acclaimed garden in the Welsh borders, the Veddw. From the strange (plant obsessives, a bizarre debut as a television presenter) to the everyday (deadheading, sharing a garden), with frequent paeans to favourite plants and thoughtful pieces on show gardens and status, this is an intelligent, pugnacious and engaging book. It also unflinchingly conveys the challenges, the hard work, triumphs and failures behind the creation and development of a substantial contemporary garden.

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This book is refreshing for being resolutely contrarian. The author's searing honesty will earn instant respect from many readers - we have all felt like the chapter headed 'I hate gardening', but few of us admit it. The Garden