There is no one way to design a garden. The variations and breadth of possibilities are astonishing but it is the choices of the individual that make the world of gardens so exciting. Creating a garden is part common sense and part instinct but we all need inspiration to help us realize...
The English Garden is the universal measure of all things related to garden design. It is in the UK that the great garden designers live and work and where a major gardening movement has developed over the last few decades, influencing the rest of the world with its ideas and vision.
This book introduces the “grandes dames” of contemporary English garden design and includes the great names of the garden world which have emerged since the 1950s, from Vita Sackville-West and Beth Chatto to Beatrix Havergal. It also presents outstanding women gardeners of the present-day who have likewise had a substantial influence on the development of contemporary garden design. Heidi Howcroft has discovered these women’s gardening secrets and writes sensitively and informatively about...
Neben den vielen englischen Garten-Highlights gibt es zahlreiche unbekannte Paradiese, die längst einen größeren Bekanntheitsgrad verdienen. Für dieses Buch reisten Heidi Howcroft und Marianne Majerus durch ganz England, auf der Suche nach Gärten, die das Wesen der englischen Gartengestaltung verkörpern. Anlagen mit Geschichte, private Refugien, die nie für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich sind,...
