Anna Pavord

Anna Pavord (born 20 September 1940) is a British gardener, garden writer, journalist, and television presenter. From 1993 to 2008 she was an associate editor of Gardens Illustrated. Her book The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad (Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999) was a The New York Times Best Seller list New York Times best seller. Quotes Though there are exceptions in all species, many useful border plants — Aster (genus) asters, dahlias, members of the Asteraceae daisy family, penstemons — have foliage that is at best undistinguished, at worst down right ragged. Careful placing of foliage plants will disguise these shortcomings very well. They bring an outstanding variety of form to mixed plantings: fat rounded leaves of bergenia, feathery plumes of Artemisia (plant) artemisia, stiff sword shapes of phormium and yucca. Foliage: Planning and Planting The classic English gardening guides Harper & Row 1990 9780060165277 https://books.google.com/books/about/Foliage.html?id=MqKtMZHSmWUC &q=shortcomings 12 (111 pages) For an extrovert April scheme of brilliant yellow and red, intolerable to a melancholy poet such as Eliot, combine a good clear-coloured Camellia japonica japonica such as Chaenomeles x superba "Crimson and Gold" with groups of daffodils and single early tulips. The Flowering Year: A Guide to Seasonal Planting Cross River Press 1990 9781558592407 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Flowering_Year.html?id=bXVRAAAAMAAJ&q=poet+eliot 37 (160 pages) As far as western Europe is concerned, the tulip's story began in Turkey, from where in the sixteenth century, European travellers brought back news of the brilliant and until then unknown lils rouges, so prized by the Turks. In fact there were not lilies at all but tulips. In April 1559, the Zürich physician and botanist Conrad Gesner saw the tulip flowering for the first time in the splendid garden made by Johannes Heinrich Herwart of Augsburg, Bavaria. He described its gleaming red petals and its sensuous scent in a book published two years later, the first known report of the flower growing in western Europe. The tulip, wrote Gesner, had 'sprung from a seed which had come from Constantinople or as others say from Cappadocia'. From that flower and from its wild cousins, gathered over the next 300 years from the steppes of Siberia, from Afghanistan, Chitral, Beirut and the Marmaris#Natural history Marmaris peninsula, from Isfahan, the Crimea and the Caucasus, came the cultivars which have been grown in gardens ever since. More than 5,500 different tulips are listed in the International Register published regularly since 1929 by the Koninklijke Algemeene Vereniging voor Bloembollencultuur Royal General Bulbgrowers' Association in the Netherlands. The Tulip Macmillan 1999 9781582340135 4 & 6 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Tulip.html?id=zqcz5o1KBsAC&pg=PA4 (439 pages) All of my gardening coats have been my husband's cast-offs. He is sufficiently bigger than me for the coats to be roomy and snug. They all have the same faint smell of wet dog which I find strangely comforting and they are all well endowed with pockets. Why do tailors think that men need more pockets than women? Surely it should be the other way round. The Curious Gardener Bloomsbury Publishing 2011 9781408810064 https://books.google.com/books?id=UOS6ho2uzkAC&pg=PA21 21 (352 pages; 1st edition 2010) Quotes about Anna Pavord The book opens like a Travel literature travel memoir, with the author trekking after native guides along a snake-infested trail through a rainforest in the wilds of Guyana. Then — after a plant-gathering side trip with an apothecary in 1629 into the wilds of Kent — we find her riding "with Kazakhs Kazakh horsemen through the Tian Shan Tien Shan mountains of central Asia". Clearly, it is a member of the band of intrepid English woman explorers who will be leading us through the taxonomical wilderness. Ursula K. LeGuin, The Naming of Names by Anna Pavord. You say arbutus, I say kisspop. Ursula K Le Guin finds Anna Pavord's The Naming of Names an excellent guide to plant etymology 26 November 2005 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview5 External links Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:Editors from Wales Category:Journalists from Wales Category:Non-fiction authors from Wales Category:People from Wales Category:Women authors from Wales Category:Women born in the 1940s