Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening - Softcover

Hobhouse, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711217904 ISBN 13: 9780711217904

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Penelope Hobhouse shares her lifetime's experience of designing and making gardens, and reveals the secrets behind her distinctive style of gardening. Taking as her model Tintinhull, the garden she tended for 14 years, as well as using other practical examples from the gardens she has designed, she communicates her knowledge of: design - how to achieve the style and atmosphere you want; planting - planting plans that can be transferred from the page to the flower bed and essays on favourite plants that help gardeners make their choices; and practical gardening skills - close-up photographs show how she takes cuttings, plants up pots, prunes, propagates, controls weeds and performs other gardening techniques.

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0711217904
• ISBN 13: 9780711217904
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216