The Rothschild Gardens

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"t/ie Rothschilds, famed for nearly two centuries as financiers, have also been a family of passionate gardeners. With humor and insight, noted naturalist Miriam Rothschild leads a gloriously photographed tour ofthe most fabulous public and private Rothschild gardens and parklands in England, France, Switzerland, and Israel, bringing their history and her flamboyant, highly competitive family to life.
f—|—^he Rothschild family, renowned as bankers, have I had a huge impact on Western social and pohtical 1 history over nearly two centuries. Less well-known is their influence on the landscape, for many members of the family have been passionate and knowledgeable gardeners, skillfully creating magnificent parklands and gardens throughout England, Europe, and elsewhere.
Miriam Rothschild, a superb gardener and scientist, explores her family's greatest estates and gardens as they once were and as they are today. Stunning color photographs specially... Tovább

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"t/ie Rothschilds, famed for nearly two centuries as financiers, have also been a family of passionate gardeners. With humor and insight, noted naturalist Miriam Rothschild leads a gloriously photographed tour ofthe most fabulous public and private Rothschild gardens and parklands in England, France, Switzerland, and Israel, bringing their history and her flamboyant, highly competitive family to life.
f—|—^he Rothschild family, renowned as bankers, have I had a huge impact on Western social and pohtical 1 history over nearly two centuries. Less well-known is their influence on the landscape, for many members of the family have been passionate and knowledgeable gardeners, skillfully creating magnificent parklands and gardens throughout England, Europe, and elsewhere.
Miriam Rothschild, a superb gardener and scientist, explores her family's greatest estates and gardens as they once were and as they are today. Stunning color photographs specially commissioned for this book let you visit outstanding gardens frequented by kings and rulers and marvel at majestic parks and vistas. This privileged tour includes Miriam Rothschild's own beautiful conservation garden, home to birds, beasts, and butterflies.
Family members adopted modes of gardening and design that range from formal parterres to acres of greenhouses and rambhng woodlands. Several Rothschilds have become plant speciahsts, and botanical gardens worldwide have benefitted from their collections. Jointly, the gardens illustrate most of the trends in gardening of the last two hundred years, but on a fabulous scale that is scarcely imaginable today. A century ago, Alice de Rothschild, for example, spent the equivalent of nearly three quarters of a million dollars annually on her gardens and grounds near Grasse, France.
Enthusiastic and flamboyant, the Rothschilds have always been fond of showy bedding displays and elaborate topiary, but they have also enjoyed producing fruit and vegetables. Baron Edmond dehghted guests at his households in Paris and Boulogne by inviting them to pick fresh fruit—ripe red or black cherries, or greengage plums— straight from dwarf trees brought into the dining room!
More than just a book about beautiful gardens and estates, this is a combination of glorious photographs, extraordinary anecdotes, vast fortunes, and magnificent gardens. Archival pictures of many of the gardens and the characters involved accompany Miriam Rothschild's intimate, amusing look at the competitiveness and drive for perfection that has typified her family's behavior in gardening, as well as in business.
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