On Psyche's Lawn - The Gardens at Plaz Metaxu (Hardcover)

Alasdair Forbes has been developing his innovative and beautiful garden, Plaz Metaxu, in Devon, for the past thirty years. The thirty-two acre garden has been internationally acclaimed both as an unusually ambitious contemporary example of the making of place and for its poetic and psychological insights. Trained as an art historian, Alasdair always wanted his garden to be open to the worlds of myth, literature and the other arts, while remaining keenly aware of the strengths, vulnerabilities and delights a garden has to offer in its own right. He has been the only full-time gardener at Plaz Metaxu from its beginning until the present day, though invaluable part-time assistance has been provided by Cyril Harris (who is not a professional gardener either). The whole garden, with its lawns and fritillary meadows and hedges, its bowers, groves and woods, its lake and its courtyards, its 'carousel beds', and its landscaped walks to far horizons, is entirely the creation of these two men. This beautiful, richly illustrated book is Alasdair's own account of how and why the garden was made. He writes of its many inspirations, from Psyche herself to poets, painters and the mysterious paredros . . . not forgetting the valley landscape, with its noble precedent at Studley Royal, and its wise mentors from the Far East. In everything he has done, Alasdair has been the pupil of the spaces that surround him; his rare gift has been to become their ventriloquist, in finding out how they themselves want to 'speak'.

General

Imprint:	Pimpernel Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Alasdair Forbes
Dimensions:	320 x 220 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-910258-81-1
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
LSN:	1-910258-81-4
Barcode:	9781910258811

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