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Influential Gardeners by Andrew Wilson
2002. 192pp, 150 colour photographs, design plans. Revealing the history and development of garden and landscape design in the 20th century, this book focuses on the key personalities who have shaped today's taste in gardens. It contains profiles of 56 famous designers, with photographs, archive pictures and plans of their work.
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| | A gardener's labyrinth: Portraits of people, plants and places by Tessa Traeger & Patrick Kinmouth
2003. 304pp, landscape format, 155 colour & 65 b&w halftones. Slipcase. This book is a visual and literary evocation of the British garden past, present and future. Perhaps there has never been so significant a vantage point from which to contemplate the greatest gardens whilst their beauty still remains from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, nor a better time to capture the personalities that have shaped their future. The author's record over fifty of Britain's most inspirational horticulturists, and the plants and gardens with which they have been involved, emcompasses the whole spectrum from historic formality to modern wilderness, from cottage to country houses, and season to season.
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Old Roses and English Roses by David Austin
224pp and 148 colour illus. Most old roses were introduced before 1900 and their flowers have a very different style from Modern Roses; they have an open flower and a natural shrubby habit of growth. This book covers all the most worthwhile Old Roses before dealing with their natural successors, the English roses which go together to form a natural group. David Austin is a proprietor of one Britain's leading rose nurseries.
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| | The artist and the garden by Roy Strong
With some 350 fully annotated illustrations, this lovely book offers a unique record of three hundred years of English gardens and what they meant to those who owned and portrayed them.
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Arts and Crafts Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver
1999. 272pp. This new edition, re-titled Arts and Crafts gardens to distinguish it from the original book and published at the turn of the twentieth century, takes advantage of modern colour reproduction and colour printing technoogy. whilst we cannot go back in time to re-take the original photographs of arts and crafts gardens and houses as they are today together with reproductions of contemporary paintings and watercolours complement the original black and white photographs and bring new colour and light to a now vanished world.
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 | Gertrude Jekyll: The making of a garden compiled by Cherry Lewis
2000. 191pp. This new edition of the anthology, now with 151 colour illustrations, 162 duotones and 10 black and white illustrations, takes us through the making and management of gardens, the diseasters and delights encountered along the way,the practicalities and pleasures involved. It is an attempt to encapsulate the quintessence of Gertrude Jekyll's writings and, in doing so,endeavours to reflect the all-embracing nature of a truly "renaissance" personality.
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Gardens of the mind: The genius of Geoffrey Jellicoe by Micheal Spens.
192pp, 57 colour, 155 b&w illus. This is the offical biography covering the life and work of Geoffrey Jellicoe. He drew his inspiration from many sources, from ancient culture right up to modern art. He was awarded major commissions throughout Europe and the USA, and became Britain's most famous landscape architect with a world-wide reputation. Michael Spens has won several architectural awards and writes regular criticism in leading journals such as the Architectural review.
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| | Geoffrey Jellicoe. Volume One
226pp, 43 colour, 304 b&w illus. This is the first of four volumes of the writing of one of the 20th century's most remarkable thinkers, Geoffrey Jellicoe, whose contribution to the study and understanding of landscape design is internationally recognised. This volume includes Soundings, an introductory tour through conscious and subconscious time, An Italian study, a study of Jellicoe's original drawings in Italian gardens of the renaissance and finally, his Baroque Gardens of the Renaissance.
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Geoffrey Jellicoe. Volume Two
270pp, 5 photographs and measured drawings. This, the second volume in the series, contains two pre-war studies. The sections in the Garden and Design cover Jellicoe's general observations, gardens in Italy, France and England and the English school of landscape gardening. Gardens of Europe is a leisurely summary of some of experience he had gained is here brilliantly telescoped into a highly readable and energetic account.
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| | Geoffrey Jellicoe. Volume Three
250pp, over 300 photographs. Containing lectures on historical and contemporary issues of landscape philosophy, design and practice, this is the third volume in the series. The content of this volume covers a span of up to seventy years in which Jellicoe's opinions and ideas have been developed, tried and tested. As with the previous volumes, Jellicoe elaborates his thesis with a fascinating set of artistic, landscape and plan illustrations to clarify and emphasize the conceptual and practical ideas behind his masterly exposition.
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Gardening at Sissinghurst by Lord Tony
1995. 168pp, 170 colour photographs and 15 design plans. Created by Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, Sissinghurst represents romantic gardening at its most successful. This book reveals the secrets behind the most visited garden in Britain. It relates the garden's features, and examines its design, development, planting and maintenance.
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2003. 160pp. From the most romantic garden in the world, planting schemes to try in your own garden, including the dazzling display of spring flowers in the Lime walk, the exuberantly intimate, sunset coloured planting in the Cottage garden, the elegance of foliage and flowers in the famous White garden and many other ideas.
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Planting schemes from Monet's garden by Vivian Russell
2003. 160pp. Radiant colour schemes from the world-famous garden at Giverny. Now in over 150 beautiful colour photographs, the planting schemes that underpin this lovingly maintained garden are revealed. Guided by the author's expert commentary describing the plant associations and the gardening techniques that support them, you can learn how to recreate in your own garden the plantings of this greatest of artist-gardeners.
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| | The English garden through the twentieth century
288pp, 145 colour, 130 b&w illus. Jane Brown surveys the most influential and significant gardener designers working in the 20th century from Gertrude Jekyll up to the present. She covers all the principal movements: Arts and Crafts, the Italian influence, the modern movement, the new Georgians and the post-modern garden. She also explains Geoffrey Jellicoe's philosophy of design. The book gives an excellent readable overview of a century of innovation and change. It is an essential work for anyone who has any interest in the most popular pastime of the 20th century.
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Monet's Garden:Through the seasons at Giverny by Vivian Russell
1991. 168pp, 200 photographs, 5 artworks. This is a unique portrait of a garden that stole the heart of Claude Monet and inspired more than 500 world's most treasured paintings. The author presents a vivid account of how the garden was concieved and run by Monet.
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| | Monet's house: An impressionist interior
1997. 144pp, 140 colour photographs, 6 archive photographs, 1 ground plan. A companion volume to "Monet's garden: through the seasons at Giverny". This title explores Monet's house. It focuses on authentic decorative touches, including furniture and fabrics, paint swatches, tiles and china. It throws light on Monet's approach to colour in interior decoration.
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Houses and Gardens by E L Lutyens by Lawrence Weaver
2001. 344pp. This book embodies the quintessence of a man and his work; the variety of style and design seen in the houses featured in the 580 black and white illustrations brings together in one volume the many strands of Lutyen's fertile mind. While complementary to the work of the architect is Lawrence Weaver's leisurely "saunter" round the houses and gardens - an effect created by the use of many detailed and cleverly composed photographs.
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 | Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker : Traveller and plant collector by Ray Desmond
1999. 286pp. Sir Joseph Hooker is remembered as an eminent Victorian botanist and one of Charles Darwin's closest collaborators. Many gardeners and lovers of rhodendrons know of his plant collecting expedition in the Himalayas, but few are aware of his participation in Sir James Clark Ross's epic voyage to Antarctica in 1839-43, of his visits to Syria and Lebanon in 1860 to the Atlas mountains in Morocco in 1871 and to the Rockies and California in 1877. A some risk to his own safety and health (he came close to drowning in the Antartic Ocean and was imprisoned by the Rajah of Sikkim), he discovered many new species of plants and introduced a number of attractive flowers into British gardens.
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Roy Lancaster: A plantsman in Nepal
1995. 291pp. The account of the expedition was first published in 1981 and this much enlarged new edition, together with updated nomenclature and an additional chapter on a subsequent visit to Nepal by the author, is accompanied by some 270 colour and 70 black and white illustrations, the vast majority taken by the author himself. It will be irresistable to all gardeners and plant lovers, whether of the armchair or active variety, and a constant source of reference for students, plant explorers and plant historians
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 | The London town garden 1740-1840 by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
2001. 289pp. Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space, and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now been overlooked. In this groundbreaking account of the development of the private garden in London, the author provides a delightful remedy to the oversight by exploring in detail the small gardens,their owners, and their significance to the development of the metropolis. Some two hundred illustrations enhance this rich and fascinating discussion.
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The story of gardening by Penelope Hobhouse
2002. 468pp. Original, absorbing and a testament to her life's work, The Story of Gardening is Penelope Hobhouse's personal account of one of civilization's most ancient arts. Describes the rich cultural and historical influences that have shaped today's gardens and continue to inspire modern designs. Showcases the world's most exceptional gardens in an unprecedented collection of beautiful photographs and paintings.
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 | Gardens of the National Trust by Stephen Lacey
320pp, with over 200 illus. This superbly designed volumes serves as a practical guide to National Trust gardens as well as a source of reference and inspiration. Every entry gives details of soil and climate, while an appendix includes tables listing the special features of each garden.
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RHS New formal gardens : formality updated for today's gardens by Jill Billington
160pp. In a dynamic new approach to gardening, New Formal gardens explores how traditional formal design is being reinterpreted to suit today's small-scale gardens. Contemporary formality offers gardeners with limited space and often equally limited spare time,the opportunity to experiment within a well-ordered framework. The results show how subtly organized spaces and well-chosen plants and new materials can create a restful outdoor space requiring the minimum of maintenence - perfect for the way we garden now.
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 | The National Trust Gardens handbook: visitor's guide to over 140 great gardens.
2002. 184pp. The National Trust owns the most wonderful range of gardens, some world famous, others that come as an exciting surprise, some that are great plantsmen's collections, others that are tiny gems. Make this comprehensive guide your constant companion to enjoy your visits to the full.
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