Thirty years after Beth Chatto first created her now famous
gardens, The Green Tapestry was published, in which Beth took her
readers on a conducted tour of her gardens while explaining her
planting choices and experiences in making a garden with perennial
plants. Now, a further thirty years on, although Beth is no longer
with us, the gardens continue to demonstrate her ethos of
sustainable planting, which, with climate change an ever more
pressing issue, could not be more relevant today. In Beth Chatto's
Green Tapestry Revisited, David Ward and Asa Gregers-Warg, who
worked alongside Beth for many years and still work at the gardens
today, have updated her guide to her gardens, adding new text where
areas of the garden have been substantially remodelled and
replanted since the first edition, in particular the Gravel Garden,
the Woodland Garden and the Reservoir Garden, with an updated
directory of Beth's favourite perennial plants. Beth's gardens at
Elmstead Market were, in many ways, ahead of their time. Beth's
knowledge as a plantswoman, derived in part from her husband
Andrew's research into plants in their natural habitats, also came
from her own extensive practical experience. She set out to garden
using only those plants that thrived in the available conditions -
damp or dry, sun or shade. It was her talent for observation, her
enthusiasm for learning, and her never-ending interest in the
foliage, form and texture of her preferred perennials, as much as
in their flower colour, that made her a unique voice in British
gardening. Illustrated with specially commissioned photography by
Steven Wooster, who was Beth's preferred photographer of her
gardens, this new edition is a timely tribute to Beth's work. Julia
Boulton, Beth's granddaughter and the CEO of Beth Chatto's Plants
and Gardens, hopes that it will inspire a new generation of
gardeners to plant in tune with nature and create their own
exquisite 'green tapestry' of perennial plants suited to their own
conditions. -- que
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