Author: National Trust (Great Britain). Gardens Survey Team
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Category : Country homes
Languages : en
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Author: National Trust (Great Britain). Gardens Survey Team
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Category : Country homes
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Author: National Trust (Great Britain). Gardens Survey Team
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Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Author: National Trust (Great Britain). Gardens Survey Team
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Category : Gardens
Languages : en
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Author: National Trust (Great Britain). Gardens Survey Team
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Category : Country homes
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Author: Stephen Lacey
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Ruth Petrie
Publisher: Guardian Books
ISBN: 0852653581
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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This charming guide gathers together writings on all aspects of British gardening, from the nineteenth century plant hunters such as 'China' Wilson and the Veitches, who brought seeds and specimens from every corner of the world, to the designers such as Capability Brown and Gertrude Jekyll, who set their mark on gardening styles. In pieces written by the paper's stellar list of gardening correspondents - Vita Sackville-West, Penelope Hobhouse, Monty Don, Carol Klein, not to mention Christopher Lloyd, the grand old man of British gardening - it explores our dedication to the growing garden. And, with stories about the restoration of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, the building of the great glasshouses at Chatsworth, and the preservation work carried out a Kew, it paints a picture of how history can be unearthed through gardening and emphasises how important it is to preserve our green-fingered heritage. Coming right up to the present day with pieces on the advances at the Eden project, Notes on the Garden is the perfect bedside companion for anyone who loves the feeling of soil between their fingers.

Author: Graham Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780297775591
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Stephen Lacey
Publisher: Anova Books
ISBN: 1905400004
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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When the National Trust decided to take on the care of gardens, the aim was that these would be the very best of their kind in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Trust now has the finest collection of gardens ever assembled under one ownership - the greatest in number, diversity, historic importance and quality. Taken together they contain the world's most important collection of cultivated plants, distinguished for their beauty, rarity, historical interest and scientific value. First published in 1996, this new edition has been substantially revised to showcase superb new photography, and to introduce recently acquired properties such as Greenway in Devon and the gardens of houses such as Red House in Kent and Tyntesfield in Somerset. Stephen Lacey paints a vivid picture of individual Trust gardens through historical and horticultural perspectives. He gives his personal take, describing the present state of each and placing it firmly within the context of gardening history in Britain. All the major periods are represented: a knot garden from a 1640 design at Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire; magnificent eighteenth-century landscapes such as 'Capability' Brown's at Petworth in Sussex; Victorian Gardens like Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, with its wealth of new plants introduced from all over the world; and the famous plantsmen's gardens of the last century, such as Nymans in Sussex, Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, and Hidcote in Gloucestershire.

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