The 'Garden of England', 'The High Weald', these are phrases that describe a 70-year-old Area of Outstanding National Beauty in Southern England. Among these dramatic landscapes and ancient woodlands stand many castles, mansions and cottages, ringed with orchards, meadows, drifting flowers and horticultural exotica. Featured gardens range from grand landscapes to works of glorious eccentricity, Arts and Crafts green rooms to postage stamp-sized plots of ingenuity. Wilderness weaves into floral genius, while native and exotic species stand side-by-side - all within the unique climate of the English garden.
Including chapters on English Parks, Arts and Crafts Gardens and Woodland Gardens, Where the Wildness Pleases - The English Garden Celebrated pays homage to English horticultural excellence and tells the gripping stories behind some of our most breath-taking landscapes. This book also features a handy Who's Who of designers, gardeners, plant hunters and nurserymen, and a brief guide to English playing greens - cricket, bowling, croquet and tennis.
This is a welcome guide for anyone interested in visiting this astonishingly beautiful part of the country, or those thinking of buying a plot. 作者简介
卡罗琳-霍姆斯在全世界范围内从腐殖质中筛选出幽默感,她是园艺界的一个知名人物。她曾在许多大洋和除南极洲以外的各大洲讲学,从剑桥大学到巴黎、纽约、悉尼、惠灵顿和槟城,深入研究人类和植物在历史上塑造景观的无数方式,以及我们可以从他们身上学到什么。她为Anglia、Meridian和Channel TV共同主持了花园设计和历史电视系列节目Glorious Gardens。她曾主持过BBC第四广播电台的几个系列节目,并写了11本书。她的最后一本书《睡莲和莫奈睡莲背后的天才Bory Latour-Marliac》获得了美国草本植物协会的 "Elizabeth Crisp Rea奖"。RHS Herbs for the Gourmet Gardener》入围了花园媒体协会2014年年度参考书奖。卡罗琳赢得了美国草药协会的 "格特鲁德B. 福斯特草药文学奖"。
Sifting humour from humus worldwide, Caroline Holmes is a well-known name in horticulture. She has lectured across many oceans and on every continent except Antarctica, from the University of Cambridge to Paris, New York, Sydney, Wellington and Penang, delving into the myriad ways people and plants have historically shaped landscapes and what we can learn from them. She co-presented the garden design and history TV series Glorious Gardens for Anglia, Meridian and Channel TV. She has presented several BBC Radio Four series and written 11 books. Her last, Water Lilies and Bory Latour-Marliac, the genius behind Monet's Water Lilies, received the Herb Society of America's 'Elizabeth Crisp Rea Award'. RHS Herbs for the Gourmet Gardener was a finalist in the Garden Media Guild 2014 Reference Book of the Year Award. Caroline won the Herb Society of America's 'Gertrude B. Foster Award for Excellence in Herbal Literature'.
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