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Author Merrett, Kathryn Chase, 1944- author.

Title Why grow here : essays on Edmonton's gardening history / Kathryn Chase Merrett
Edition First edition, first printing, 2015
Published Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 330 pages)
Contents Why grow here? -- Donald Ross : Edmonton's "father of gardening" -- Nature's garden transformed -- Among the first -- The Edmonton Horticultural Society : working for the city beautiful -- Waste places : vacant lot gardening in Edmonton -- Edmonton, the rose city -- The invisible tapestry : remembering Edmonton's Chinese gardeners -- Citizen gardeners
Summary Nine essays explore how gardeners and gardens molded Edmonton's social, cultural, and physical landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Gardening -- Alberta -- Edmonton -- History
GARDENING -- Essays.
GARDENING -- Reference.
GARDENING -- Vegetables.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture.
Gardening
Alberta -- Edmonton
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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