Description
| Product ID: | 9781870673600 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Mary Mcmurtrie's Country Garden Flowers |
| Authors: | Author: Timothy Clark |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Gardening: plants, Scotland |
| Description: | The life and gardening of one of Scotland's most original artists and gardeners, Mary McMurtrie, concentrating on how she created the garden at Balbithan. This book, using the paintings that Mary McMurtrie left to illustrate an unpublished book on cottage garden flowers, records how she created the garden at Balbithan and used her nursery to distribute the double primroses and cottage garden plants which her husband, John McMurtrie, bequeathed to her.Mary McMurtrie belonged to the small band of enthusiasts, which included Margery Fish and Gladys Emmerson, who grew double primroses during the period after the Second World War. At a time when every fifth day a house of some architectural importance was being demolished, these enthusiasts, along with fellow gardeners, preserved many of the plants from our gardening heritage of the previous centuries.Gently proud of her Scots ancestry, Mary would have been delighted to know that one of her paintings was chosen as a gift for Prince Charles during a visit to The Gordon Highlander Regiment in 2006. |
| Imprint Name: | Garden Art Press |
| Publisher Name: | ACC Art Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-06-23 |
