Eve Balfour Founder of the Soil Association.

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Eve Balfour Founder of the Soil Association.Michael Brander. Born in 1898 Eve Balfour became a farmer and after years of experience she began to question modern farming methods. During the 1939 45 war she wrote her best selling The Living Soil outlining her, then revolutionary, organic beliefs. She went on to found the Soil Association and devoted the rest of her life to espousing organic principles in farming, touring the world to promote them until her death in 1990. She made a lecture tour

Softback with flaps 223 pages

Colour plate 12 is of a mistletoe

A comprehensive and authoritative history of gardens by the editor of Garden History journal

ISBN 9780715305508

A history of the rose in human culture accompanied with more than 1000 colour photographs

ISBN 9780881922783

2 hectare garden established by Penny and John Zino at Hawarden in North Canterbury

Describes and illustrates suitable plants to grow

Superb colour photographs

Descriptions and cultivation notes for 60 genera and hundreds of species of succulents suitable for modern gardens

All entries are illustrated and maps show original distribution of the plants

Brenda Moon