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The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
"Should there be any doubt that Gertrude Jekyll was among the greatest practitioners of the art of gardening (there isn't, of course), a survey of this book will quickly confirm her almost totemic status in twentieth-century ornamental horticulture."--Wayne Winterrowd, Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening "[This book] is scholarly, well-written, and based on original research. The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll is the most innovative study of the patron saint of modern gardeners since Jane Brown's pioneering Gardens of a Golden Afternoon appeared ten years ago. . . . [Bisgrove's] is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever made of Gertrude Jekyll's gardening."--Charles Quest...
Garden Rescue
Every garden presents problems of one kind or another. It is inevitably windy,acking in privacy too shady, badly drained, too large, too small oropelessly overgrown. "Garden Rescue" is written to help gardeners to develop,eclaim or maintain their gardens more successfully, not only be surmountingroblems, but often by turning them to advantage. Originally published as "our Problem Garden" and revised and updated, this classic book seeks toxplain not just the 'how' of the gardening, but the 'why' as well. Ratherhan trotting out cliched solutions, Richard Bisgrove helps the reader tonderstand the unique challenges posed by their gardens in order to come upith a tailor-made rescue package. Climate, soil character, planning andaintenance are all discussed, and there is a useful chapter devoted toecovering a garden that is in a poor state of repair.
The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll is one of the most influential 20th-century garden designers. This book shows the best of her garden designs and a wonderful collection of her planting plans, made more accessible by extensive analysis and reinterpretation of the originals, accompanied by simple watercolours of the plans and illuminating photographs.
Gardening Across the Pond
For four hundred years there has been a special relationship between Britain and what is now the United States of America in many aspects of life, not least in gardening. From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back exciting new plants for English gardens to the twenty-first-century English infatuation with "prairie gardening," ideas and plants have been crossing and re-crossing the Atlantic. In Gardening Across the Pond, Richard Bisgrove explores four centuries of translantic influences, from the Tradescants, plant-hunting in seventeenth century Virginia, to the prairie landscapes of the 2012 London Olympic Park, and attempts to answer that thorny question--is the English cottage garden an American invention?
William Robinson
Like his contemporary Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson made enormous contributions to the world of gardening. More than any other gardener, he was responsible for sweeping out the rigid Victorian style and ushering in a more relaxed look that used native plants. Here, Richard Bisgrove explores Robinson's design principles and his transformative role in English gardening. Robinson's groundbreaking ideas are displayed in numerous illustrations, including photographs of Robinsonian gardens at Gravetye Manor and elsewhere and engravings from his classic books.
The Garden
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Nature and Ideology
The essays in this volume explore the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. They also investigate garden designers' use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the rich model that nature offers.
The Curious Gardener
A wonderful book about the gardening year with practical advice by the top garden writer and best-selling author of The Tulip
The Horticulturist
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Colour Scheme in the Flower Garden
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