Maggie Campbell-Culver is a garden and plant historian, and a Fellow of The Linnean Society of London.
She has worked on a number of gardens in Sussex and Cornwall and was the Garden Conservationist at Fishbourne Roman Palace near Chichester. In Cornwall, Campbell-Culver undertook the garden and landscape restoration of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.[1]
Books edit
In September 2001, she published The Origin of Plants, a chronology of the plants introduced to Britain, and the people who have shaped Britain's garden history from the earliest times.[2][3][4][5][6][7] The book was short-listed for a Guild of Garden Writers Award, and the paperback edition was published in Spring 2004.
Campbell-Culver was one of the editors for the 2006 edition of The Oxford Companion to the Garden,[a] and a contributor to the Insight Guide Great Gardens of Britain and Ireland[10] as well as to the English Heritage Handbook on Management of Historic Parks, Gardens and Landscapes.[11] The Eden Project Friends magazine has Campbell-Culver as a frequent contributor, while articles have been published in Country Life, The Tablet, and The Countryman as well as the French magazine Britmag.
A Passion for Trees, the Legacy of John Evelyn is Campbell-Culver's second book and was published in 2006.[12] This focuses on a 1664 book Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest Trees[13] authored by John Evelyn (1620–1706), and commemorates the tercentenary of Evelyn's death.[14] Campbell-Culver is a consultant to Lewes District Council for their project on the John Evelyn Heritage Centre at Southover Grange.
Directions for the Gardiner and Other Horticultural Advice was re-published by OUP in May 2009.[15]
She has completed a book entitled Charlemagne and his Flora: The Foundation of European Cooking.[16] This book describes the eighty-nine plants which in the year 800 the Emperor ordered to be grown on all Imperial land throughout his kingdom to feed the travelling court, the army, and to help avoid famine. She asserts that the chosen plants laid the foundation of modern European cooking.
Other work edit
Campbell-Culver has given a series of plant talks on local radio in Brittany, where she also lectures. She has completed a lecture tour in Ireland[17] and is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. She has lectured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Dartington Festival, and the Garden History Society, and has enrolled as a Royal Horticultural Society Regional Lecturer.
She is a founder member of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (now Plant Heritage) and has been involved for many years with the Garden History Society and their Gardens Trust movement.
Publications edit
- Maggie Campbell-Culver (2001). The origin of plants: the people and plants that have shaped Britain's garden history since the year 1000. London: Headline. ISBN 9780747272144. OCLC 1061519269.
- Maggie Campbell-Culver (2006). A passion for trees: the legacy of John Evelyn. London: Eden Project Books. ISBN 9781903919477. OCLC 537924432.
- Evelyn, John (2009). Campbell-Culver, Maggie (ed.). Directions for the gardiner and other horticultural advice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781903919477.
Notes edit
- ^ Campbell-Culver covered topics raging from plant collecting, botanical illustration,[8] as well as biographies of Linnaeus, Carl (1707–78) to Wilson, Ernest Henry (1876–1930) in the 2006 edition of The Oxford Companion to the Garden.[9]
References edit
- ^ Newsletter. The Society. 1982. p. 137.
- ^ Bird, Chris (24 April 2014). The Fundamentals of Horticulture: Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press. pp. 289–. ISBN 978-0-521-70739-8.
- ^ Hobkirk, Charles Oodrington Pressick; Porritt, George Taylor; Roebuck, William Denison; Clarke, William Eagle; Waite, Edgar Ravenswood; Sheppard, Thomas; Woodhead, Thomas William (1999). The Naturalist. Simpkin, Marshall and Company. p. 146.
- ^ "Tis the season to be reading". The Scotsman. 2 December 2001.
- ^ "Books - Henry Hobhouse: The Origin of Plants". The Spectator (37). London: F.C. Westley. 15 September 2001. ISSN 0038-6952. OCLC 95436434.
- ^ Higgins, Adrian (21 December 2006). "Now Available for the Patio: A Prehistoric Relic". Washington Post.
- ^ Darley, Gillian (8 June 2006). "Diary". London Review of Books. 28 (11).
- ^ Noble, William C (2005). "Garden Plants Depicted on the Mid-Sixteenth-Century Ferrante Gonzaga "Puttini" Tapestries". Garden History. 33 (2): 294–97. doi:10.2307/25434184. JSTOR 25434184.
- ^ "search results, "Maggie Campbell-Culver"". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ Insight Guides Great Gardens of Britain & Ireland. Singapore: APA Publications. 2003. ISBN 9789812348708. OCLC 1001912684.
- ^ Watkins, John; Wright, Tom W. J. (2007). The Management & Maintenance of Historic Parks, Gardens & Landscapes: The English Heritage Handbook. London: Frances Lincoln.
- ^ Wulf, Andrea (17 June 2006). "A Passion For Trees: The Legacy of John Evelyn by Maggie Campbell-Culver". The Guardian.
- ^ Evelyn, John (1664). Sylva, or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber. London: Printed by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry. OCLC 80127463.
- ^ "Book reviews" (PDF). Historic Gardens Review. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012.
- ^ Evelyn_etal 2009.
- ^ "Charlemagne and his Flora, The Foundation of European Cooking (On-going manuscript)". planthistory.uk. 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ "Well Worth a Read" (PDF). Newsletter of the Irish Garden Plant Society (89). Dublin. 3 April 2014.