The essential independent guide to garden visiting, published annually since 1990, now comes illustrated with over 200 color photographs, many of them featuring gardens and public spaces that deserve to be far better known. Long acknowledged by the gardening press as the leader in the field, it is now not only a work of reference but also a book to treasure.
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Peter King is a distinguished author and editor who has been involved in the publication of over 30 books. He has written on a variety of topics, including the expeditions of lady travellers, the travel writings of George Nathaniel Curzon, Shackleton's South and Scott's Last Journey (Duckworth, 1999). He founded The Good Gardens Guide in 1990 with the late Graham Rose, gardening editor of the Sunday Times. Katherine Lambert is a distinguished and prolific garden writer and editor. She has worked on the Good Gardens Guide since 1996 and has been Joint Editor since 2004. She helped to edit Rosemary Verey's The Garden in Winter, was co-editor with her of The American Man's Garden and Secret Gardens, is author of Hell with a Capital H, the story of six survivors of Scott's last expedition (Pimlico, 2002). She is currently working on a book combining gastronomy and early Victorian social history.
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This review is from: The Good Gardens Guide: The Essential Independent Guide to the 1200 Best Gardens, Parks and Green Spaces in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands (Paperback)
A must have for anyone planning a trip to visit gardens in the UK!
All listed have times that the gardens are open and information for locating each site. Maps in the back are excellent for planning several gardens close by.
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This review is from: The Good Gardens Guide: The Essential Independent Guide to the 1200 Best Gardens, Parks and Green Spaces in Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands (Paperback)
If you love gardens, love England, and love visiting gardens in Great Britain, this is your essential guide.
The book is organized by county, with listings of each public garden worth visiting in that county. A map also shows the location of each garden. The editors give the address, phone number, visiting hours, web sites and other visitor's information for each garden, followed by a description of the type of garden you'll find when you get there. A rating system gives the editors' opinion of which gardens are especially worth visiting - but really - if it made it into this book, it's worth visiting! I've used this guide many times to plan my trips to England, and recommend it highly. It's updated annually, but usually I just get a new one every few years.
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Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) A highly successful architect (Houses of Parliament etc), he popularised the formal Italian style of gardening in the mid-nineteenth century, creating impressive designs which incorporated terraces, flights of steps, balustrading, urns, fountains and loggias. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
west garden, check with the individual properties, written appt, appt for parties, nursery specialises, unusual herbaceous plants, plant sales area, fine mature trees, fine specimen trees, double herbaceous borders, herb parterre, planted herbaceous borders, laburnum tunnel, candelabra primulas, walled kitchen garden, long herbaceous border, small arboretum, dell garden, bog garden, yew topiary, many unusual plants, old walled garden, adjoining nursery, thatched summerhouse, pleached hornbeams Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Historic Garden Grade, Listed Grade, Open April, Historic Scotland Inventory, Open March, National Gardens Scheme, The Yellow Book, Historic Park Grade, The National Trust, Open May, Bank Holiday Mons, Gertrude Jekyll, High Street, English Heritage, Open Easter, Scottish Borders, Open Feb, Humphry Repton, World War, Graham Stuart Thomas, Open June, King's Lynn, Arabella Lennox-Boyd, North Yorkshire, National Collection Browse Sample Pages:
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Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) A highly successful architect (Houses of Parliament etc), he popularised the formal Italian style of gardening in the mid-nineteenth century, creating impressive designs which incorporated terraces, flights of steps, balustrading, urns, fountains and loggias. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
west garden, check with the individual properties, written appt, appt for parties, nursery specialises, unusual herbaceous plants, plant sales area, fine mature trees, fine specimen trees, double herbaceous borders, herb parterre, planted herbaceous borders, laburnum tunnel, candelabra primulas, walled kitchen garden, long herbaceous border, small arboretum, dell garden, bog garden, yew topiary, many unusual plants, old walled garden, adjoining nursery, thatched summerhouse, pleached hornbeams Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Historic Garden Grade, Listed Grade, Open April, Historic Scotland Inventory, Open March, National Gardens Scheme, The Yellow Book, Historic Park Grade, The National Trust, Open May, Bank Holiday Mons, Gertrude Jekyll, High Street, English Heritage, Open Easter, Scottish Borders, Open Feb, Humphry Repton, World War, Graham Stuart Thomas, Open June, King's Lynn, Arabella Lennox-Boyd, North Yorkshire, National Collection Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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