Cottage Gardens
Title | Cottage Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Masset |
Publisher | National Trust |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2020-05-01 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1911657232 |
A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style. The cottage garden's abundant, informal style is rooted in Victorian dreams of a perfect country life. But it has found new expressions from the Arts & Crafts movement to the present day. This book showcases a selection of National Trust cottage gardens, famous and obscure, including writer Thomas Hardy’s cottage in Dorset; the flower-filled cottage garden created at Sissinghurst, Kent, by Vita Sackville-West and harold Nicolson; the Tudor manor Cothele in Cornwall, Beatrix Potter's Cumbrian home, Hill Top, and the picturesque Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex. Cottage Gardens also features some of the most famous non-National Trust examples from around the country, including Kelmscott Manor, Dove Cottage and Eastgrove Cottage Garden. With practical advice on creating your own cottage garden, including key plants and techniques, this is a wonderful companion for all garden enthusiasts. With climbing roses, bright hollyhocks, pathways edged with honeysuckle, blossom-filled orchards and wildflower meadows, this is the perfect book to capture the idyllic British country garden.
The Beauties of a Cottage Garden
Title | The Beauties of a Cottage Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Gertrude Jekyll |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 2009-04-02 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 0141932902 |
This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writing with enthusiasm on the colours and scents of flowers, on the frustrations (and delights) of weeding and on the debasing influence of flower shows, she is practical, wise and entertaining in equal measure. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
English Cottage Gardening for American Gardeners
Title | English Cottage Gardening for American Gardeners PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780393047899 |
Thanks to the extraordinary color photos and gardening wisdom in this book, the elegant intimacy of the English cottage garden is a practical possibility for amateur gardeners in diverse regions of the United States.
Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden
Title | Designing and Creating a Cottage Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Harland |
Publisher | Aquamarine |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9781903141717 |
From scented borders and flowery bowers to rambling paths and secret nooks, this is an inspirational guide to a universally loved garden style. It includes a history of the cottage garden, an introduction to the essential features of the style and a guide to applying them in your own garden.
The Modern Cottage Garden
Title | The Modern Cottage Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Loades |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1604699086 |
“An inspirational book, with encouraging words and down-to-earth advice for achieving a year-round beautiful garden.” —Michael Marriott, chief rosarian at David Austin Roses In this practical and inspirational guide, Greg Loades presents a new style of planting: a fusion between classic cottage style and the new perennial movement. Using real gardens as examples, The Modern Cottage Garden teaches gardeners how to combine the best of both styles—big, colorful blooms and striking grasses and native plants—into one beautiful space that requires little maintenance and has a long season of interest. Fresh planting ideas for containers, small gardens, and diverse climates present an exciting style that can shine anywhere.
A Year at Brandywine Cottage
Title | A Year at Brandywine Cottage PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Culp |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 160469856X |
How to Live Your Best Gardening Life David Culp has spent more than 30 years creating Brandywine Cottage—a sensational year-round garden that provides an abundance of joy, both indoors and out. In his new book, he urges home gardeners everywhere to do the same in their own space. Organized by the garden’s six natural season, A Year at Brandywine Cottage is packed with fresh ideas and trusted advice, whether it’s choosing plants for twelve months of interest, weaving edibles into the mix, or bringing the bounty indoors with simple arrangements and homegrown recipes. Packed with glorious images and practical tips, A Year at Brandywine Cottage will inspire you to live a life enriched by nature every day of the year.
Pleasures of the Cottage Garden
Title | Pleasures of the Cottage Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Rand B. Lee |
Publisher | Friedman/Fairfax Publishing |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Cottage gardening |
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Filled with sumptuous color photographs and exquisite botanical illustrations, here is a rich visual presentation of a well-loved gardening style. But, it is also a practical guide for those who wish to create a cottage garden tailored to their specific climates and horticultural passions.