English Country Gardens

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TlngUsh Country Gardens is an excursion through the English JLJi countryside in summer, from small cottage plots where old-fashioned flowers live in clever harmony with vegetables and fruit, to the more spacious gardens of the manor house and the rectory, where collecrions of plants are carefully arranged to create a personal vision of Eden. Arranged in three chapters, Early, Mid and Late Summer, this book divides the weeks of summer into a gardener's chronicle and follows the flowering season through English gardens from Cornwall to Kent.
' a skilful blend of the sensory with the philosophical, and the poetical with the practical, as well as enchanting digressions into literature and gardening lore No gardener, however grand, will turn these pages and not come away with a headful of new ideas to ponder Sunday Times Magazine
PHOENIX ILLUSTRATED
Comitrv Scries No. 2
Ethne Clarke is known internationally as one of the foremost writers and lecturers on garden history,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TlngUsh Country Gardens is an excursion through the English JLJi countryside in summer, from small cottage plots where old-fashioned flowers live in clever harmony with vegetables and fruit, to the more spacious gardens of the manor house and the rectory, where collecrions of plants are carefully arranged to create a personal vision of Eden. Arranged in three chapters, Early, Mid and Late Summer, this book divides the weeks of summer into a gardener's chronicle and follows the flowering season through English gardens from Cornwall to Kent.
' a skilful blend of the sensory with the philosophical, and the poetical with the practical, as well as enchanting digressions into literature and gardening lore No gardener, however grand, will turn these pages and not come away with a headful of new ideas to ponder Sunday Times Magazine
PHOENIX ILLUSTRATED
Comitrv Scries No. 2
Ethne Clarke is known internationally as one of the foremost writers and lecturers on garden history, design and planting. She is the author of Leaf, Barii and Berry, English Topiary Gardens. Herb Garden Design, and the award winning Arr of the Kitchen Garden. Born and raised in the United States, she now lives and gardens in central Norfolk.
Clay Perry's photographs, which include portraits and reportage, appear regularly in the Sunday Times and other leading colour supplement magazines.
Cover illustrations: Front: Corpusty, Norfolk
Back: Lou>er Ufford, Suffolk mmmmmm
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