Author : Stephen Anderton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 9781905582204
20 of Wales's best and most interesting gardens, some unknown to the gardening world, some familiar, and all specially photographed by award-winning photographer Charles Hawes.
Author : Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1611171776
From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain, and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays. A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States showcases her excursions to historic gardens around the world. Through her own experiences LeClercq enables the garden adventurer to anticipate the world of color, design, and horticulture in each magnificent garden described here. The essays in A Grand Tour of Gardens are filled with history, plant lore, anecdote, and high-society gossip of the most famous public and private gardens of the United States and Europe. A Grand Tour of Gardens begins with an essay by LeClercq's mother, the late Emily Whaley. "Gardening as Art and Entertainment" discusses Whaley's iconic garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, and its other gardens that she knew and describes here. For every garden visited, LeClercq vividly details new combinations of horticultural art forms and enlivens the reader's imagination. Traveling to Claude Monet's Garden at Giverny, France; Frederick Law Olmstead's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina; and the garden of Beatrice Rothschild on the Cote d'Azure, LeClercq features these gardens in words and illustrations. A Grand Tour of Gardens serves as a roadmap for viewing gardens worldwide and provides a set of rubrics for assessing design elements of each garden. The tips shared in these essays provide a visitor with the tools for deciphering the "language" of a nursery. In eight fun-filled chapters, A Grand Tour of Gardens takes the reader on a worldwide visit to the discovery of historic gardens as a source of art, inspiration, and entertainment.
Author : Stephen Anderton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409077365
Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all. His creation is the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, and it is a tribute to his vision and achievement that, after his death in 2006, the Heritage Lottery Fund made a grant of £4 million to help preserve it for the nation. This enjoyable and revealing book - the first biography of Christo - is also the story of Dixter from 1910 to 2006, a unique unbroken history of one English house and one English garden spanning a century. It was Christo's father, Nathaniel, who bought the medieval manor at Dixter and called in the fashionable Edwardian architect, Lutyens, to rebuild the house and lay out the garden. And it was his mother, Daisy, who made the first wild garden in the meadows there. Christo was born at Dixter in 1921. Apart from boarding school, war service and a period at horticultural college, he spent his whole life there, constantly re-planting and enriching the garden, while turning out landmark books and exhaustive journalism. Opinionated, argumentative and gloriously eccentric, he changed the face of English gardening through his passions for meadow gardening, dazzling colours and thorough husbandry. As the baby of a family of six - five boys and a girl - Christo was stifled by his adoring mother. Music-loving and sports-hating, he knew the Latin names of plants before he was eight. This fascinating book reveals what made Christo tick by examining his relationships with his generous but scheming mother, his like-minded friends (such as gardeners Anna Pavord and Beth Chatto) and his colleagues (including his head gardener, Fergus Garrett, a plantsman in Christo's own mould).
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Country life
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Anderton
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1911657089
This book is a beautifully illustrated celebration of Stourhead, the estate in Wiltshire which features a Palladian mansion and a legendary Georgian landscape garden. The garden has a lake, temples, fountains, grottoes, bridges and monuments of all kinds. Stourhead is particularly famous for its autumn colour, which is rather like the British equivalent of New England. The head gardener Alan Power has been a fixture on Radio 4 every October since 2008, where he previews the coming season and judges listeners' autumn photographs. Alan Power will be contributing four essays to the book, including ones on the trees of Stourhead and autumn at the estate.
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Architecture
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Author : Automobile Association (Great Britain)
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2001-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393321913
Explore Britain on foot, by bike, by horse, by balloon, by barge or boat, by car, by train - from coast to coast.
Author :
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Science news
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Page : 750 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
Author : Nikki S. Phipps
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1105377776
This is a book that explores the 'other side' of the gardening realm, from the darker side to the more uplifting, yet ominous and unusual side of gardening. Everything from unusual garden styles and factoids to gardening lore, superstitions and more can be found within the pages of The Garden Crypt.
