An Almost Impossible Thing - The radical lives of Britains pioneering women gardeners New Directions Seit mehr als 20 Jahren

Seit mehr als 20 Jahren schreibt und illustriert er Bücher

Eva-Maria Troelenberg

spricht mit alten Gutsbesitzern und stößt immer wieder auf die Spuren wundersamer Geschichten

Many have also found their way into modern medicine cabinets – but not always in the form you would expect

An Almost Impossible Thing - The radical lives of Britains pioneering women gardeners New Directions Seit mehr als 20 JahrenWhile working as Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS on the grounds that she was female. Intrigued by what happened to young Olive, Fiona began to research the wider story of early female professional gardeners and discovered a group of pioneers who battled derision and prejudice to change expectations of what