The Gardener’s Pocket Companion
The Gardener’s Pocket Companion is an attractive, handy pocket book containing a treasure trove of gardening facts, curiosities, notes and quotes. Packed with useful and fascinating information, this will let you into many secrets, including how Joseph Paxton, designer of Crystal Palace and landscape gardener extraordinaire, rose from poverty to become a multi-millionaire, where London’s hidden gardens are located, which tree provided sixteenth-century Europeans with a cure for venereal disease, how to perform the soil fist test to determine soil type, and what Nelson Mandela grew in his prison garden.