Roy Lancaster: My Life with Plants
Celebrated plantsman Roy Lancaster relates how his chance find of a Mexican tobacco plant in a local allotment as a Bolton schoolboy was the start of a lifelong love affair with plants. His acute sense of life’s comic moments, spirited sense of adventure and encounters with people, places and plants make his life story a rewarding read, perfect for plantaholics.
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What reviewers said.
An inspiring book by one of the greatest plantsmen of our time. I can’t recommend it enough.
— Dan Crowley, Westonbirt Magazine
His writing here, and in previous books and journals over the years, is as compelling as any plant conversation with him.
— Harry Baldwin, The Horticulturalist
Roy Lancaster.
Charles Roy Lancaster CBE, VMH, FIHort, FLS, born in Bolton in 1937, is one of British horticulture's most recognisable figures — a plantsman whose curiosity has carried him across most of the temperate world and into the living rooms of two generations of gardeners. He began work at fifteen in Bolton Parks Department, served two years of national service in Malaya recording the local flora, and apprenticed at Cambridge Botanic Garden before joining Hillier Nurseries, where he assembled the standard reference Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs and became the first Curator of what is now the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens.
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