From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to Miss Sinkins and Mrs Popple - just two of the many plants named after women - women have long had a deep connection with gardening. Catherine Horwood looks at women's association with plants over the centuries, exploring its wider social significance and telling the stories of ordinary women with an extraordinary passion for horticulture. This is because as well as examining the lives of well-known women gardeners, Horwood introduces us to a secret history - to Catherine Buckton, a wool merchant's wife from Leeds who taught young women about gardening some twenty-five years before Horticultural schools for women came into existence, and Modor Tubby, who worked as a weeder in the 1520s in the City of London. Thoroughly researched and evocatively written, Daughter of Flora uncovers a rich female history beneath this addictive pastime.