The productive garden at Lord Rothschild's private house, Eythrope
in Buckinghamshire, is legendary in the garden world for the
excellence of the gardening and as a haven for traditional
techniques that might otherwise be lost. Under the leadership of
the renowned head gardener, Sue Dickinson, now retired, and the
current head gardener, Suzie Hanson, this garden works on a scale
that is now rare, producing, year-round, all the fruit, vegetables
and flowers for a country house where entertaining still happens on
a grand scale and where everything is done to the highest
standards. Paradise and Plenty opens a window on a garden that has,
until now, been kept intensely private, and on a world beyond most
gardeners' dreams. But in this book everything shown is useful as
well as beautiful. Gregory Long points out in his introduction that
as more and more people turn to growing their own, books are needed
that show the techniques of dedicated cultivation, as well as the
results. Many of the techniques used at Eythrope are old and tried,
but have fallen out of use almost everywhere else. Others have been
adopted more recently, as careful trials have proved their worth.
If you want techniques for preparing soil, growing herbs, pruning
apple trees, training roses, planting bulbs in pots or propagating
many different plants, or which are the best tried and tested
tomatoes, snowdrops or chrysanthemums to plant, you'll find out
here. In the words of the author herself, 'This book has to be how
as well as wow.'
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