Other People's Gardens - Softcover

Lloyd, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140238603 ISBN 13: 9780140238600

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

"A tour round any garden in his company is a treat, and it is good to see him responding as much to place as to plants ... the book is worth buying for the chapter on Beth Chatto alone. Lloyd fans should enjoy the throw-away, chatty never referential style" - The Spectator. His travels take us all over Britain, abroad to Australia and the United States where he finds gardens - and their owners - to discuss, to challenge and to admire and praise. In this collection of gardens we can clearly discern the intelligence, passion and dedication of those who spend their lives in the pursuit of creating these glorious gardens.

About this title

Synopsis:

Christopher Lloyd, Britain's most famous garden writer and the owner of one of Britain's most visited gardens at Great Dixter, has always enjoyed spending a great part of the year travelling around Great Britain, Australia and America visiting other people's gardens. Some of these gardens are written up in his weekly column for "Country Life", and in this book the gardens range from specializing in botanical specimens to simple yet beautifully planned gardens. Gardens with rivers, gardens with wildernesses, gardens with statuary, gardens on the mild western coast of England and Scotland, gardens in very dry terrain in Australia and gardens in the USA are all covered.

About the Author:

Christopher Lloyd was born in 1921 at Great Dixter, Northiam. He took a B.Sc degree in horticulture at Wye College, University of London and stayed on for four more years as a lecturer in decorative horticulture.

In 1954 he returned to Great Dixter where he wrote numerous titles including Foliage Plants, The Well-Tempered Garden, The Adventurous Gardener, The Year at Great Dixter and Garden Flowers from Seed (with co-author Graham Rice) which is soon to be released as a Penguin paperback.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140238603
• ISBN 13: 9780140238600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224