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A tour of some of the UK's most beguiling gardens in the counties
of Kent, Sussex and Surrey, the counties that exemplify 'the garden
of England'. In these three counties a wealth of history and
horticulture has combined with geography in the shape of rolling
landscapes, wooded valleys and meandering waterways, to provide an
attractive and fascinating collection. They are in villages and
towns, as well as in deep countryside, and all are privately owned.
Some have been in the possession of the same family for many
generations, while others have recently been transformed by new
owners. Some open for the National Garden Scheme, while others are
open privately and in some cases for just the occasional day for
charity. The stunning gardens explored in this visually rich guide
include: Arundel Castle, Denmans, Gravetye Manor, Munstead Wood and
Sussex Prairie Garden. The book also includes a gazetteer of other
important gardens in the area with location advice, to enable
readers to plan a more elaborate tour of this fertile garden area.
Filled with stunning, specially commissioned photographs by Clive
Boursnell, Secret Gardens of the South East is a unique guide that
opens the gates to the most intriguing gardens in this part of
England.
In this engaging and fascinating exchange of personal letters, two
of the most influential gardeners of all time compare notes on
successes and failures in their two very different gardens. As
Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto convey their gardening
experiences, share gossip and discuss life and nature, the
horticultural expertise of these two long-established friends and
distinguished gardeners gives these inspirational letters a life of
their own. Beth Chatto's garden in East Anglia is a place of
pilgrimage for plant lovers, while Christopher Lloyd was one of the
major figures in twentieth century gardening, transforming the
gardens of his home Great Dixter in East Sussex. Friday 16 February
Dear Beth, Today was straight out of my idea of heaven - the first
such day this year and the first time that all the winter crocuses
have opened wide, in appreciation. Armed with my kneeling pad, I
dropped to my knees to savour the honey scent of C. chrysanthus
'Snow Bunting'. Rosemary Alexander, who spends more and more time
at Stoneacre (the National Trust property near Maidstone, which she
rents), expressed doubts on whether it wouldn't be better to
concentrate on snowdrops, seeing that crocuses spend so much of
their time in an obstinately closed state, loudly proclaiming 'this
isn't good enough for me'. I can see her point, of course. [...]
Tuesday 20 February Dear Christo, What a good thing you enjoyed
your crocuses when you had the chance! Today we are blanketed in
snow once more, with a wild north wind hurling stinging dry snow
horizontally past the windows. Your way of having crocuses (and
many other bulbs) naturalized in short grass is a far more
effective way of growing them than in conventional borders. Left to
seed themselves in little knots and ribbons of colour they appear
like embroidery across a carpet before something else takes over
the design. [...]
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Great Dixter - Then & Now (Paperback)
Christopher Lloyd, Carol Casselden; Introduction by Fergus Garrett; Notes by Fergus Garrett; Contributions by Great Dixter Charitable Trust
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Christopher Lloyd, icon and iconoclast of the gardening world, was
born at Great Dixter, in East Sussex, in 1921 and died there in
2006. In the years between he developed the garden at Dixter into a
mecca for plantsmen and a hub of ideas and connections that spread
throughout the world. And from the 1930s almost until his death he
was also photographing the garden, recording it in intimate detail
as it changed and developed. A carefully chosen selection of
Christopher's photographs is published here, the majority for the
first time. They are juxtaposed with images from the Lloyd family's
earliest days at Dixter, and with photographs taken by Carol
Casselden and others of the garden as it is today.
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Meadows - At Great Dixter and Beyond (Hardcover)
Christopher Lloyd, Fergus Garrett; Photographs by Jonathan Buckley, Carol Casselden; Contributions by Great Dixter Charitable Trust
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'To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight - it's alive and
teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic . . .' So Christopher Lloyd
began his much-admired instructive and celebratory account of
meadows, first published in 2004. Few people knew more about meadow
gardening than Lloyd, who spent much of his long life developing
the flowering tapestries in his garden at Great Dixter, creating
scenes of great beauty and a place of pilgrimage for lovers of
wildflowers and wildlife. In Meadows he imparted that lifetime's
learning, exploring the development and management of meadow areas,
explaining how to establish a meadow in a garden setting,
describing the hundreds of beautiful grasses, bulbs and perennials
and annuals that thrive in different meadow conditions and
detailing how to grow them. Lloyd's classic text remains at the
heart of this new book, which also includes - as well as much
stunning new photography - an extensive introduction by Fergus
Garrett, Lloyd's head gardener.
Xa Tollemache started her gardening life when she moved into
Helmingham Hall in Suffolk in 1975, as a young wife and mother. She
spent the next twenty years learning and consequently developing
and improving the gardens. It was Helmingham, she always insists,
that taught her how to garden - to such effect that in 1996 she was
in a position to start her garden design practice. Xa Tollemache
describes this book, her first, as 'a story book, the tale of the
love story between me and the garden at Helmingham'. It is also a
record of her career as a garden designer, exemplified by eleven
other gardens, large and small, on which she has worked her design
magic: her first Chelsea Flower Show garden ("I was described as
'just an amateur', which was true - but I did get a Gold Medal!");
and gardens in Dunbeath, Caithness; Castle Hill, Devon;
Cholmondley, Cheshire; Bighton, Hampshire; Wilton, Wiltshire;
Aldeburgh, Suffolk; Bell House, Suffolk; Stone House, Suffolk; RHS
Hyde Hall, Essex - and the garden at her new home, Framsden Hall in
Suffolk.Â
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