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Master Gardener, The: A Biography of T R Garnett

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Master Gardener, The: A Biography of T R Garnett

SKU: 9781743793824 Category: Product ID: 254467

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Title: Master Gardener, The: A Biography of T R Garnett
Author: LEMON ANDREW
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/11/2017
Imprint: HARDIE GRANT
Price: $60.00
Publishing status: Active

Tommy Garnett, creator of the famous Garden of St Erth at Blackwood, Victoria, became one of
Australia’s best-known garden writers, a rational crusader for plants, gardens and gardeners,
birds, nature conservation and the environment. Few of his devoted readers knew anything of his
life before the garden – the experiences that informed the wise, crisp, erudite, playful newspaper
columns and books. Half of his long life – he died in 2006 aged 91 – was as an Englishman, half as
an Australian. He was an innovative, controversial, successful head of two world-famous schools,
England’s Marlborough College and Australia’s Geelong Grammar. Had he been a snob he could
have boasted of his family’s literary connections or rattled off long lists of distinguished students,
staff and colleagues who acknowledged his influence – poets, cricketers, princes, scholars,
ornithologists, scientists, artists. Nor did he boast of his own sporting triumphs (first-class cricketer,
British Eton Fives champion) or of his tough war years as a ground-based RAF squadron leader,
decorated for service behind enemy lines, in Bengal and Burma. Born into wealth, thrown into
penury, surviving as a scholarship boy, finding the love of his life after the war, Garnett was a man
of accomplishment and wisdom, forever open to new insights and to new experiences. Australia
reaped the benefit.

ISBN: 9781743793824