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Author (1): Reginald Arkell
Author (2): Penelope Hobhouse (introduction)

Hardcopy edition:
Publish date: June 1986
Published by: Buccaneer Books
List price: $16.95
ISBN Number: 0899665683

Softcopy edition:
Publish date: April 2003
Published by: Modern Library
List price: $11.95
ISBN Number: 0812967380

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  Garden Bookworm editor's notes:  
Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous," the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, “so blue, so blue it positively hurts.” Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal - and crotchety - head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house.

  Feedback History and Summary  
2 positives
No neutrals
No negatives

Comments:

RatingAuthorContent
Positive bulbnh On May 11, 2006, bulbnh wrote:

Historical fiction brings to life a rural English garden and gardener. Enormous social change is reflected over a period of about sixty years, ending immediately after World War II.

Positive mizfinney On Nov 22, 2004, mizfinney wrote:

Enjoyable, gentle book of the life of a gardener and his employer.


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