The English Cottage Garden - Softcover

Taylor, Jane; Lawson, Andrew

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9780297835066: The English Cottage Garden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0297835068 ISBN 13: 9780297835066

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1996

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Today's cottage garden derives from two strands: the subsistence culture of the original cottagers, who grew the vegetables and herbs they needed; and the romantic ideas of the gentry who, from about the 17th century, began to build large cottage-style houses. This is a tour of the cottage garden.

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About the Author:

& PHOTOGRAPHER Jane Taylor has written eleven books about gardens, including the Kew Gardening Series, Climbing Plants, and Tender Perennials. She was a Deputy General Secretary of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens. Andrew Lawson is one of our most inspired and knowledgeable garden photographers. His pictures have illustrated many books, including Good Planting, The Terracotta Gardener, The Container Gardener, Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate, and the bestselling Garden at Highgrove. Andrew Lawson lives in Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

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Most U.S. gardeners can only imagine a climate conducive to growing the lush perennials associated with English cottage-style plantings, but the fascination with this type of garden continues to flourish. A prominent gardening photographer, Larson supplies countless images of charming country homes bedecked with roses and wisteria running riot over arbors, amazing topiaries lending structural form, and flowers spilling over all sorts of delightful stone and brick pathways. Taylor comments on artists and designers who influenced English horticultural trends, explains various architectural styles, and, referring to sources both historical and literary, entertains with herbal and plant lore. Most plant descriptions are of a general nature, noting specific varieties or cultivars less often. Alice Joyce

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