The Beauties of a Cottage Garden
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 o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-193290-3
- EAN: 9780141932903
- Produktnummer: 17834092
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'881 KB
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Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was an artist and, as a garden designer, had a painterly touch she put to good use in the planting of hundreds of gardens. She is particularly renowned for her collaborations with architect William Lutyens. Her influence on gardening has persisted to this day.
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