The Eccentric Garden
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The Eccentric Garden
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Author : Jane Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-10-01
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden
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Author : Roy Diblik
language : en
Publisher: Timber Press
Release Date : 2014-03-11
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden written by Roy Diblik and has been published by Timber Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-11 with Gardening categories.
“A veritable goldmine for gardeners.” —Plant Talk We’ve all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they? The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy garden achievable at home. The new, simplified approach is made up of hardy, beautiful plants grown on a 10x14 foot grid. Each of the 62 garden plans combines complementary plants that thrive together and grow as a community. They are designed to make maintenance a snap. The garden plans can be followed explicitly or adjusted to meet individual needs, unlocking rich perennial landscape designs for individualization and creativity.
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.
Apartment Gardening
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Author : Amy Pennington
language : en
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Release Date : 2011-04-05
Apartment Gardening written by Amy Pennington and has been published by Sasquatch Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-05 with Gardening categories.
Forget the 100-mile eat-local diet; try the 300-square-foot-diet &— grow squash on the windowsill, flowers in the planter box, or corn in a parking strip. Apartment Gardening details how to start a garden in the heart of the city. From building a window box to planting seeds in jars on the counter, every space is plantable, and this book reveals that the DIY future is now by providing hands-on, accessible advice. Amy Pennington's friendly voice paired with Kate Bingham-Burt's crafty illustrations make greener living an accessible reality, even if readers have only a few hundred square feet and two windowsills. Save money by planting the same things available at the grocery store, and create an eccentric garden right in the heart of any living space.
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.
The Curious Gardeners
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Author : Guy Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Headline Book Pub Limited
Release Date : 2001
The Curious Gardeners written by Guy Cooper and has been published by Headline Book Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Gardening categories.
Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, drive an 1960s Alvis sports car around the gardens of Britain - the traditional, the eccentric and the contemporary - and talking in their informed, cantankerous and humorous way about the unusual and interesting elements of design they have found.