A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style featuring cottage gardens from around the country. Features gardens created by famous writers including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Beatrix Potter.
Provides introduction to the world of words for young children just starting to learn French. This title includes over 500 words, each illustrated with Jo Litchfield's hand-made models and accompanied by an example of usage. It contains a French grammar guide and a French to English word list.
A whimsical and beautiful book celebrating these hidden gems of the National Trust – from specially made secret gardens to overlooked corners of famous gardens and re-discovered lost gardens.Stunning photographs of the Trust’s idiosyncratic gardens are accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. The book will include secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials, strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled Overbeck’s in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions, and Monk’s House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for Virginia Woolf.
Hidden behind the high walls surrounding Buckingham Palace is one of London's most beautiful gardens, the venue for a busy calendar of royal events, including the much-loved tradition of The Queen's Garden Party. Award-winning photographer John Campbell has spent a year taking pictures of that garden for this richly illustrated book, revealing the changes that occur through the seasons, as massed bulbs give way to the roses of high summer and the turning trees of autumn. The text, by gardening writer Claire Masset, follows a year in the life of the royal garden, and is full of insights and practical tips from the Head Gardener, Mark Lane. Enlivened by royal anecdote, the book reveals the skills of the gardeners who have tended these London acres over the centuries and the tastes and keen horticultural interests of successive monarchs, such as James I whose campaign to introduce silk production to Britain was the inspiration for Buckingham Palace's National Collection of Mulberries. Today this hidden oasis in the centre of London is home to an increasingly diverse array of flora and fauna, including the royal beehives located on an island in the garden's 3.5-acre lake, and is a source of ideas and inspiration for every gardener, equally applicable to a homely plot as to the garden of a royal palace
A visually stunning celebration of England's favourite flower, the rose. The National Trust owns 30 of the most famous and beloved rose gardens in this country, from Mottisfont to Sissinghurst. There are also features on 20 iconic rose varieties, with advice on how you can grow them yourself.
A beautifully illustrated compilation exploring the mystery of what makes us love gardening, via history, science, art and philosophy.
16 Hektar umfasst der »Garten« des Buckingham Palastes, eine versteckte grüne Oase im Herzen Londons, die nur die Gäste der alljährlichen Gartenparty jemals zu sehen bekommen. Dieses Buch gewährt einen Blick hinter die Mauern, es schildert die Flora und Fauna des Parks im Wandel der Jahreszeiten und Jahrhunderte. Hier wachsen 1000 Bäume, 1500 Rosen, unzählige Sträucher und diverse Wildblumen, die den fünf Bienenstöcken auf der Insel im See des Parks Nahrung bieten. James I. pflanzte 1608 Maulbeerbäume, um eine britische Seidenproduktion zu etablieren, die Grundlage für die heutige Maulbeer-Sammlung. Königin Charlotte hielt 1762 eine Menagerie im Garten, neben Affen gab es ein Zebra und einen Elefanten – gegenwärtig sind hier 50 Vogelarten, Frösche, Insekten und Eichhörnchen heimisch. Es ist ein kleines Paradies, in dem der Leser wandeln darf, und Chefgärtner Mark Lane verrät auch einige praktische Tipps.