The Garden: A year at Home Farm - Hardcover

Pearson, Dan

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9780091870324: The Garden: A year at Home Farm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091870321 ISBN 13: 9780091870324

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2001

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In 1987 designer Dan Pearson was commissioned to create a 4 acre garden at Home Farm. The result is an extraordinary series of gardens that are both naturalistic and pioneering in their planting. Ranging from a Woodland Garden to a Thyme Lawn and Vegetable Garden, each area of Home Farm demonstrates an aspect of gardening familiar to many of us. Dan Pearson charts a year in the life of this magical place, immersing the reader month-by-month in the process of working within a dynamic, ever changing medium. He details his gardening philosophy and explores the seasons both practically - covering pruning, sowing, maintenance etc - and aesthetically, looking at the importance of colour, perfume, light balance and many other elements within the garden. Home Farm accompanies a major 6-part series to be broadcast on BBC2 in February 2001.

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The Garden is a deeply romantic book, and a remarkably rewarding one. Dan Pearson has been supervising the development of the garden at Home Farm since 1987. Here he describes its growth from the wreckage of a derelict farm into a rich and beautiful part of the Northampton landscape. There is now a Woodland Garden, a Lime Enclosure, a Thyme Lawn, a Vegetable Garden and a large pond: these and the other parts of the garden allow Dan Pearson to explore many aspects of the British garden. The Garden follows the course of a year, charting in detail at once practical and highly personal the intensive work and thought that shape this magical place. The result is highly absorbing, the garden itself the main character in the narrative, responding to the seasons, flourishing under the endless care devoted to it. The tutelary name invoked is that of Beth Chatto, and her principle of ecological planting is adhered to. Nothing is forced, everything is natural: the roses that, after a few years, develop mildew are removed rather than subjected to a chemical war of attrition. Dan Pearson is clearly devoted to this garden, as well he might be. It seems to be part of his soul. --Robin Davidson

Book Description:

Tie in to a major new BBC series - acclaimed garden designer Dan Pearson takes us through a year in the life of the extraordinary gardens at Home Farm.

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