Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening - Hardcover

Hobhouse, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711208166 ISBN 13: 9780711208162

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

This guide to gardening reveals the secrets behind Penelope Hobhouse's distinctive style of gardening. Taking as her model Tintinhull - the National Trust garden in Somerset which she has tended over the past 14 years - she sets out her principles of gardening, and explores the elements that compose a garden of excellence.
Through practical examples, drawn from Tintinhull and from gardens she herself has designed all over the world, she shows gardeners how they can achieve the results they want, and shares her labour-saving tricks as well. Close-up photographs show how to take cuttings, plant up pots, prune shrubs, clip topiary and generally keep the garden looking wonderful.

About this title

About the Author:

Penelope Hobhouse is internationally-renowned as a garden designer, writer and historian. She holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society. She has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Guild of Garden Writers and a Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America.

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As well as being a distinguished garden photographer – he holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Medal for photography – Andrew Lawson is a painter, a passionate and knowledgeable gardener, and author of several successful gardening books.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0711208166
• ISBN 13: 9780711208162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Illustrator: Sturgis Jean