This book, first published in 1912 by "Country Life", contains the substance of a legend, when the Arts and Crafts Movement had evolved into country house architecture and then found expression in the making of gardens. Both Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver were working on "Country Life" in its early days under its founder and owner, Edward Hudson. Lawrence Weaver was an architect, the Architectural Editor of "Country Life", with an immense eye for detail and the intricacies of fine craftmanship.
Gertrude Jekyll is one of the most influential 20th-century garden designers. This book shows the best of her garden designs and planting plans. The author also wrote "The Flower Garden" and "The National Trust Book of the English Garden" and he wrote the introduction to "color Schemes for the Flower Garden: the Illustrated Gertrude Jekyll".
Garden News, July 12th, 2001.... I will read this book for pleasure, inspiration and to learn a great deal from a great plantswoman'.
Ameteur Gardening, July 2001
'...Jeykell's approach is just as relevant to today's gardener...It's a really easy, flowing read.'
This anthology encompasses a legacy of gardening lore left by Gertrude Jekyll, (1843-1932) one of the great gardeners of the century. Her ten gardening books were published between 1899 and 1937 and it is from these that the excerpts in this anthology have been selected. Trained at art school, Gerturde Jekyll developed strongly held views on design, form and the use of color in the garden, and it is these views which are reflected in this selection which takes us through the year, season by season.
A selection of passages from Gertrude Jekyll's books on gardening, incorporating topics which include design and ornament, color and scent, and flowers in the house.
Following the success of "color for Adventurous Gardeners", the most adventurous gardener of all time is back to reveal how he plans, creates and maintains his celebrated borders. Most gardeners want their borders to be interesting and colorful over a long season, even year-round if winters are not too severe. Christopher Lloyd OBE shows how he and Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter, choose and orchestrate plants for maximum effect.
Covering both basic and more advanced information , this book on the cottage garden includes a clear explanation of the subject, equipment and preparation. Detailed step-by-step photographs and instructions take the reader systematically through all the techniques.
Author of Colour for Adventurous Gardeners, Christopher Lloyd has at his disposal a long lifetime of expertise as a plantsman, an engaging, occasionally acerbic prose style and a beautiful and important garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex. He is also profoundly aware of the importance of tradition in gardening, yet in the way of those who have mastered their difficult craft is able to throw out without a qualm received ideas that have been sanctioned by the practice of generations.
This volume contains an exchange of letters spanning the gardening year. Two long-established friends and distinguished gardeners share observations, anecdotes and tips from their years of experience. In these personal letters, Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto share their successes and failures, and learn from each other's experiences in their two very different gardens.
This volume contains Christopher Lloyd's reflections on a gardener's main material - perennial herbaceous plants from Acanthus to Zigadenus. Covering over 1000 plants, with common names, descriptions and judgements on species and varieties, he outlines how to choose perennials, and what not to choose. Most encyclopaedias show garden plants impartially, but Lloyd goes further.
Christopher Lloyd has been writing a weekly column in "Country Life" since 1963. This book is a selection of his garden literature that provides horticultural information for all.
Christopher Lloyd's Gardening Year takes us through a year in the gardening life of one of the world's most admired gardening writers and garden makers; and it does much more than that. As he leads the reader around his garden at Great Dixter, month by month, Christopher Lloyd presents an encyclopedic account of hundreds of plants, enthusiastically introducing readers to the rarer varieties and casting new lights on well-loved or familiar ones.
This is the classic work by a gardener who combines a passionate love of his subject with a critical intelligence and a good helping of wit. The Well-Tempered Garden is packed with the sort of information keen gardeners crave - from planting, weeding and the pleasures of propagation to annuals, water-lilies and worthwhile vegetables. Hailed as 'a really important addition to horticultural literature' when it was first published.
