Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: A Countrywoman's Notes
Author: Rosemary VereyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Countrywoman's Notes
Author: Rosemary VereyPublisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711206939
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
This informative and entertaining small volume contains engravings by contemporary artists and a foreword by Prince Charles. Twelve chapters endeavour to capture the atmosphere of successive months, encompassing the minutiae of plant and wildlife behaviour in the garden and hedgerow. The author celebrates the intimacies of a rural world in an idyllic setting, but with an eye to modern existence and an appreciation of progress.
The Countrywoman
Author: The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley
Author: Titus Maccius PlautusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Rosemary Verey
Author: Barbara Paul RobinsonPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567924506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This is an insightful and enlightening look at the life and works of the internationally renowned English garden designer. Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved international renown. She was the acknowledged apostle of the "English style," the "must have" adviser to the rich and famous - including Prince Charles and Elton John - and a wildly popular lecturer. She was a natural teacher who encouraged her fans to believe that they were fully capable of creating beautiful gardens while validating their quest for a native vernacular, She also re-introduced the English to their own gardening traditions. A demanding taskmaster and a relentless perfectionist, Rosemary Verey, in her life as in her work, was the very personification of the English garden style.
Thoughtful Gardening
Author: Robin Lane FoxPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465022936
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In Thoughtful Gardening, award-winning historian and Financial Times gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox takes readers on a delightful journey through each season of the gardening year. From fending off vine-weevils to visiting Yves Saint Laurent's private gardens in Marrakech, Fox imbues each of his musings with grace, sophistication, and charm. Essential reading for anyone planting a new garden or taking stock of one after several years, Thoughtful Gardening offers expert advice and a touching reminder of the power of art and literature to deepen what we see and experience in nature. Combining a vast understanding of horticulture with witty and stylish storytelling, these vignettes form -- season by season -- a rich reflection on the lessons, challenges, and joys of life with a green thumb.
Great British Gardeners
Author: Vanessa BerridgePublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445672413
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Through the stories of twenty-six inspiring figures - from ‘Capability’ Brown, Humphry Repton and Vita Sackville-West to lesser known figures, and present-day gardeners such as Beth Chatto and John Brookes - this book brings the colourful history of British gardening to life.
A Countrywoman's Journal
Author: Margaret ShawPublisher:
ISBN: 9781597640473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 200 skeches and photographs. Hidden in a drawer for over seventy years, Margaret Shaw's perfectly preserved sketchbook diaries from 1926 to 1928 record in watercolor and prose, the flora and fauna of an almost vanished world. In Shaw's charmed countryside, the eaves swarm with house martins, elm trees still grow tall and hedgerows are everywhere, full of "quarrelsome, noisy wrens."