Maggie Campbell-Culver
Maggie Campbell-Culver FLS is a garden and plant historian, gardener, landscaper, lecturer, and radio presenter. In the 1990s she managed the garden and landscape restoration of Cornwall's Mount Edgcumbe Country Park. In 2001 Campbell-Culver was elected a Fellow of The Linnean Society of London.
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[edit]- Even the canny invader William the Conqueror can be thought to have contributed to the total of our plant list. When he came to build what we now know as the Norman castles, he preferred use material with which he was already acquainted rather than stone from unknown English quarries, so the walls of castles like Dover and Sherborne were built from stone imported from the continent. Incidental to its main purpose, the stone itself carried the seeds of a double invasion — seeds of two plants we think of as being most quintessentially English. The first was the pink (now known as the Wild Carnation), Dianthus caryophyllus, and the second was Cheiranthus cheiri, now called Erysimum cheiri, the wallflower. Both were seen blooming on the stone walls of Caen in France, so the pretty little delicate pink which is used in the breeding of nearly all of our border pinks is the result of 1066 and all that.
- "Introduction". The Origin Of Plants: The people and plants that have shaped Britain's garden history since the year 1000. Random House. 2014. ISBN 9781473509320. (496 pages; foreword by Tim Smit; 1st edition 2001)
- Trees can be record breakers: they can be one of the oldest living organisms in the world: Californian specimens of Sequoiadendron giganteum, the Wellingonia or Big Tree, are believed to be at least 4,000 years old. They can also be the largest form of life: a Montezuma Cypress which grows in Santa María del Tule in Mexico — and which, incidentally, is about 2,000 years old — has a circumference measuring 54 metres (178ft) and is 40 metres (130ft) high. Its weight is estimated to be about 500 tons.
- A Passion For Trees: The Legacy Of John Evelyn (pbk ed.). Random House. 2014. p. 2. ISBN 9781448109852. (288 pages; 1st edition 2006)
Quotes about Maggie Campbell-Culver
[edit]- Evelyn ... wrote the first (and only) bestseller on forestry: Sylva, a Discourse of Forest Trees was published in 1664 and addressed deforestation and the shortage of timber. ...
"We had better be without gold than without timber," Evelyn wrote, because without trees there would be no iron and glass industry, no fires to warm houses in winter, nor a navy to protect the shores of England. Timber was, as Maggie Campbell-Culver points out, the oil of the 17th century, and the shortage of it created similar anxieties about fuel, manufacturing and transport as threats to oil production do today. Sylva was a response to these fears, encouraging the reader to plant trees as an act of patriotic duty. ...
A Passion for Trees is beautifully illustrated with paintings and sumptuous botanical drawings. But the use of explanatory extensive "text boxes" (some are four pages long) interrupts the narrative. As with her first book The Origin of Plants, Campbell-Culver is at her strongest and most convincing when she delves into the lives of the trees, although both Evelyn himself and the age in which he lived remain elusive throughout the book.- Andrea Wulf, (17 June 2006) "review of A Passion For Trees: The Legacy of John Evelyn by Maggie Campbell-Culver". The Guardian.
External links
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- Maggie Campbell-Culver. Hachette Australia.
- Margaret Georgina Ellen Campbell-Culver. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.