Pick of the Bunch: The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers

Description

This is the social history of twelve enduringly popular flowers: from the rose and lily, old favourites redolent of the Middle Ages and religious symbolism, to the tulip and hyacinth, fashionable bulbs that commanded huge sums. Margaret Willes looks at how they got their names, how they arrived in our gardens and how they were bought and displayed

Margaret Willes read Modern History and Architectural History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, then was editor in three London publishing houses before becoming the Publisher at the National Trust where she began the Trust's own book imprint. Since her retirement, she has taken up writing full-time. Her first book, 'Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books' was published by Yale University Press (2008).

'The perfect summer read for any gardener' John Stachiewicz, National Trust Magazine