Why Every Man Needs a Tractor
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Charles Elliott is a saint. He provides all the pleasures of gardening without any of the aches and pains."<br /> <br />
As autumn's chills set in, this elegant volume, with its mixture of personal anecdote and wide-ranging scholarship, is the ideal armchair gardener's companion."<br /> <br />
As a reader, you are in safe hands with Charles Elliott. Lauded author of 'The Transplanted Gardener' and the 'Potting Shed Papers' series of books, you know what you are getting when he puts his eloquent and yet amusing pen to paper. The title piece is a point in kind - 'Why Every Man Needs a Tractor' is instantly engaging, pleasant, inclusive and informative - but mostly entertaining, thanks to Elliott's innate ability to insightfully look back and laugh at himself.
A hymn to the glories of owning a tractor, even when you don't really need one. (Or especially when you don't really need one)."<br /> <br />
These essays about the whole universe of gardening are both wide ranging and hugely entertaining."<br />
His charming collection of short essays covers subjects from the feats of Victorian plant hunters to the horrors of knotweed."<br /> <br />
Hidden Gem!"<br /> <br />
Tales of great gardeners and heroic plant hunters share space with more personal revelations in this hummorous gem."<br /> <br />
Entertaining essays for the green-fingered."<br /> <br />
Tales of great gardeners and heroic plant hunters share space with more personal revelations in this humorous gem"<br /> <br />
Entertaining and knowledgeable essays.
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