Yew and Non-Yew

By James Bartholomew

Book Overview

The author treats garden snobbery with robust good humour. He includes the top ten best and worst British gardens, and questionnaires for the reader to determine just how yew his or her own garden is. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099272067
• ISBN13: 9780099272069
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Arrow Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Professional Horticulturist Loved This Book

After I read Yew & Non-Yew, I finally understood why my colleague shook her head ruefully when I told her I had planted wax begonias. My colleague is a horticulturist at an arboretum. I had transgressed a gardening rule I never knew existed. Now that I've read Yew & Non-Yew, a hilarious book which spells out all those rules, I'll never do it again. I recommend this book to anyone interested in gardening. My friend the horticulturist called it "quite a hoot."

Acidly funny

As an American expat in England, I was beginning to understand some of the never-changing ideas of English gardening. "Yew and Non-Yew" made these things quite clear. While not one to tuck gnomes into my landscape, I did wince to read that hanging baskets containing a few -- gasp! -- IMPATIENS would be viewed with disdain by our British gardening neighbors. But the book travels well across the Atlantic to our gardens in the colonies. It is hilarious through and through. And telling as it charts the chasm between gardeners who would put plastic furniture on the patio and those who would use only old bricks for the parterre. Every chapter is a hoot. You'll read and re-read these pages.