Potted History by Catherine Horwood

Description

There is not shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in our homes.

This book’s combination of social history, plant history and the history of interior design explains why, as Flanders and Swann sung in the 1950s, ‘the garden’s full of furniture/ and the house is full of plants’.