Eccentric Gardener
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An Englishman S Home
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Author : Tom Hart Dyke
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
An Englishman S Home written by Tom Hart Dyke and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Gardening categories.
Tom Hart Dyke has a bit of a thing about plants. You might call it an obsession. You might call him certifiable, in fact. But it's a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ramshackle country estate and an obsession with plant collecting could want for only one thing - in Tom's case it's a walled garden containing examples of plants collected from every corner of the globe. Tom's infectious enthusiasm for anything with chlorophyll in it and the hugely ambitious World Garden project he has undertaken at his family home, Lullingstone Castle, in Kent have been documented in a 12-part television series for BBC 2. The first six parts (Save Lullingstone Castle) were shown in spring 2006, and the second six episodes (Return to Lullingstone Castle) in spring 2007 to coincide with hardback publication. Tom's attempts to set up the World Garden aren't exactly straightforward. You might imagine, for example, that the easiest way to start preparing the ground inside the walled Elizabethan garden which he transforms into the main part of the world garden would be to enlist the help of a few people and a lot of hard digging. Well not for Tom, who enlists instead two large pigs, who do indeed do a great job of turning over the earth and fertilising it with great organic manure. But the problem is that they keep escaping into the Hart Dyke family burial plot next door where they start digging up Tom's ancestors... The World Garden is created to bring together a truly amazing collection of plants from every continent and so to show the global origins of the plants we all grow in our gardens. It's already establishing itself as a tourist attraction of some note as well as an educational resource. This is a book for all those who bought Tim Smit's Lost Gardens of Heligan. It's stuffed full of fascinating botanical information as well as the story of Tom's hapless struggle to overcome huge logistical nightmares. It's a riveting, hilarious story of English eccentricity in full bloom.
Eccentric Gardener
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Author : Bookwise International
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-08-01
Eccentric Gardener written by Bookwise International and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-01 with Eccentrics and eccentricities categories.
English Garden Eccentrics
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Author : Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
language : en
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Release Date : 2022-04-26
English Garden Eccentrics written by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan and has been published by Paul Mellon Centre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Architecture categories.
A highly original examination of a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries In his new book, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan looks at a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their unusual creators--from the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley (d.1765), to the pleasure-ground proprietor Jonathan Tyers (d.1767), and the bird-loving Lady Reade (d.1811)--built miniature mountains, shaped topiary, collected animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments to realize their gardens in a way that was, and sometimes still is, thought to be excessive. Bringing together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography, English Garden Eccentrics examines what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and analyzes an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography. This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.
Eccentric Gardens
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Author : Jane Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Eccentric Gardens written by Jane Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Gardening categories.
An unforgettable celebration of the marriage of two glorious traditions--gardens and eccentricity--in an exhilarating tour of the world's most original private gardens. Jane Owen presents 25 one-of-a-kind gardens in 100 stunning color photographs that reveal the visual pleasure of these quirky masterpieces. Advertising in magazines.
Homegrown And Handpicked
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Author : Carol J. Michel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-12
Homegrown And Handpicked written by Carol J. Michel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with Gardening categories.
Humorous and light-hearted essays about gardening. Professionally dirty clothes, The MulchMobile, The Gardener's Handshake,Thanksgiving Conversation Starters for Gardeners, and Going Steady with a Grower are just a few of the delightful subjects covered in Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life. Read it to discover if you have an eccentric gardener in your neighborhood or to see if, gasp, you are the eccentric gardener in your neighborhood. The sequel to the popular essay book, Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, which taught us about gardening math, distance, time, and other important fundamentals, Homegrown and Handpicked is a journey through the seasons, with just as many laugh-out-loud, hey-that's-me stories as the first book. Read this to remember why you so love gardening, and keep returning to your garden again and again, despite the bugs, weeds, and marauding garden fairies running off with your tools.
The Gardener Of Versailles
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Author : Alain Baraton
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2014-02-11
The Gardener Of Versailles written by Alain Baraton and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-11 with Gardening categories.
An “eccentric and charming” love letter to Versailles Palace and its storied grounds, by the man who knows them best—for gardening lovers and Francophiles (New York Times) Tour Versailles’ 2,100 acres as its gardener-in-chief describes its fascinating history and his 40 years of living and working in the gardens. In Alain Baraton’s Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved by France’s kings and queens as much as the palace itself. His memoir captures the essence of the connection between gardeners and the earth they tend, no matter how humble or grand. With the charm of a natural storyteller, Baraton weaves his own path as a gardener with the life of the Versailles grounds, and his role overseeing its team of 80 gardeners tending to 350,000 trees and 30 miles of walkways across 2,100 acres. He richly evokes this legendary place and the history it has witnessed but also its quieter side that he feels privileged to know: The same gardens that hosted the lavish lawn parties of Louis XIV and the momentous meeting between Marie Antoinette and the Cardinal de Rohan remain enchanted—private places where visitors try to get themselves locked in at night, lovers go looking for secluded hideaways, and elegant grandmothers secretly make cuttings to take back to their own gardens. A tremendous bestseller in France, The Gardener of Versailles gives an unprecedentedly intimate view of one of the grandest places on earth.
Christopher Lloyd
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Author : Stephen Anderton
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-03-04
Christopher Lloyd written by Stephen Anderton and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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).
Gardens Of Obsession
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Author : Gordon Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1999
Gardens Of Obsession written by Gordon Taylor and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Gardening categories.
"A fertility sculpture garden in Bangkok and a topiary cemetery in Ecuador are just two of the astonishing stops on this garden-world romp."--Conde Nast Garden. "...infectiously enthuses about gardens on the cutting edge: the audacious, the radical, and the astonishing....Cooper and Taylor take us on a wild and satisfying ride..."--Garden Design Magazine. "...an eye-popping worldwide survey of garden statuary, from surreal to monumental to cheerfully obscene."--Chicago Tribune.
Henry Mitchell On Gardening
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Author : Henry Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1999
Henry Mitchell On Gardening written by Henry Mitchell and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Gardening categories.
For readers who like gardening (and love the English language), this posthumous collection of Henry Mitchell's Washington Post "Earthman" columns is "equal parts entertainment and shrewd horticultural advice" (Science News). Henry Mitchell is "beloved for his witty, smart, informed, philosophical, wide-ranging and often wickedly humorous columns" (Detroit Free Press).
Antony Gray Gardener
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Author : Leslie Moore
language : en
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Release Date : 2009-01
Antony Gray Gardener written by Leslie Moore and has been published by Kessinger Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01 with Literary Collections categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.