- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Frances Lincoln; 1st UK hardback edition edition (30 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0711226490
- ISBN-13: 978-0711226494
- Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 25.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 418,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The book looks as beautiful as the gardens that the Marchioness makes. (Spectator )
A startlingly impressive oeuvre. (House & Garden )
An endearing memoir of someone whose entire life has been consumed by the furore hortensis… Derry Moore has complemented the text with ravishing atmospheric photographic coverage. (Country Life )
A startlingly impressive oeuvre. (House & Garden )
An endearing memoir of someone whose entire life has been consumed by the furore hortensis… Derry Moore has complemented the text with ravishing atmospheric photographic coverage. (Country Life )
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Lady Salisbury has been a gardener since, as a child in the 1930s, she cultivated tiny patches of her parents' gardens in Ireland and the West of England. Later, as chatelaine first of Cranborne Manor and then of Hatfield House, she revived two of the great historic gardens of England. Then there the gardens that, as a professional garden designer, she has created for others, notably for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove and for the Museum of Garden History and Cosby Hall in London ('As a gardener who has lived the greater part of her life in Tudor and Stuart houses, to be asked to design a garden for an Elizabethan palace was an enjoyable challenge'). Renowned for her depth of scholarship and her design skill, she has also led the way in as a pioneer of organic gardening ('when I began, in 1948, I was written off as a complete crank').
Now in her eighties, she not only continues to tend her garden in Provence, she is also making a roof garden ('the first I've ever done') for her house in Chelsea, and designing gardens for clients in England, Ireland, Italy and the United States. This book encapsulates her gardening experience.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Leafing the pages of this beautifully wrought gardener's diary is very much like drawing open curtains on a summer morning and finding your room filled with sunlight. The photographs by Derry Moore are incredibly beautiful from Jeff Koons' Puppy to the protective shadows and dappled greens of a terrace border on a cloudless afternoon. There are some 150 color photos in the 224 pages, and each is a feast for the eyes.
Lady Salisbury, we learn, has always been drawn to gardens. As a youngster she tended to small areas in her parents' gardens. From this initial interest grew an abiding love and enormous responsibility as she later became chatelaine of England's Cranborne Manor and Hatfield House, where she brought these great groundss to renewed life.
In a description of her childhood gardens she writes, "From my earliest consciousness, I have noticed plants..." She was, she says, awakened by her mother's roses and the instructions she received as to how to cut a rose for a vase and how to prune roses to encourage reflowering. Little did she dream then that she would become a professional garden designer with commissions from throughout the world and count among her clients the Prince of Wales and the New York Botanical Garden.
Lady Salisbury has spent her life doing what she loved, and to this writing actively continues although she is in her 80s. She is the woman the New York Times called "The Green Goddess of English Gardens," while others refer to her as the "greatest gardener of the twentieth century."
In photographs and words A Gardener's Life is her biography, and a joyous one it is. This volume serves not only as a chronicle of her work but as a guide for us, sure to be relished by those who love gardens, nature, and all things beautiful.
- Gail Cooke
Lady Salisbury, we learn, has always been drawn to gardens. As a youngster she tended to small areas in her parents' gardens. From this initial interest grew an abiding love and enormous responsibility as she later became chatelaine of England's Cranborne Manor and Hatfield House, where she brought these great groundss to renewed life.
In a description of her childhood gardens she writes, "From my earliest consciousness, I have noticed plants..." She was, she says, awakened by her mother's roses and the instructions she received as to how to cut a rose for a vase and how to prune roses to encourage reflowering. Little did she dream then that she would become a professional garden designer with commissions from throughout the world and count among her clients the Prince of Wales and the New York Botanical Garden.
Lady Salisbury has spent her life doing what she loved, and to this writing actively continues although she is in her 80s. She is the woman the New York Times called "The Green Goddess of English Gardens," while others refer to her as the "greatest gardener of the twentieth century."
In photographs and words A Gardener's Life is her biography, and a joyous one it is. This volume serves not only as a chronicle of her work but as a guide for us, sure to be relished by those who love gardens, nature, and all things beautiful.
- Gail Cooke
Format:Hardcover
Well......what a lady and what an inspirational gardener.
I found this book enchanting and delightful. The Marchioness has been passionate about every garden in which she was involved, from Highgrove to her own roof garden in London and would not take no for an answer. Wonderful.
I found this book enchanting and delightful. The Marchioness has been passionate about every garden in which she was involved, from Highgrove to her own roof garden in London and would not take no for an answer. Wonderful.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GARDENS, NATURE, AND ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL
1 Jan 2008
Format:Hardcover
Leafing the pages of this beautifully wrought gardener's diary is very much like drawing open curtains on a summer morning and finding your room filled with sunlight. The photographs by Derry Moore are incredibly beautiful from Jeff Koons' Puppy to the protective shadows and dappled greens of a terrace border on a cloudless afternoon. There are some 150 color photos in the 224 pages, and each is a feast for the eyes.
Lady Salisbury, we learn, has always been drawn to gardens. As a youngster she tended to small areas in her parents' gardens. From this initial interest grew an abiding love and enormous responsibility as she later became chatelaine of England's Cranborne Manor and Hatfield House, where she brought these great groundss to renewed life.
In a description of her childhood gardens she writes, "From my earliest consciousness, I have noticed plants..." She was, she says, awakened by her mother's roses and the instructions she received as to how to cut a rose for a vase and how to prune roses to encourage reflowering. Little did she dream then that she would become a professional garden designer with commissions from throughout the world and count among her clients the Prince of Wales and the New York Botanical Garden.
Lady Salisbury has spent her life doing what she loved, and to this writing actively continues although she is in her 80s. She is the woman the New York Times called "The Green Goddess of English Gardens," while others refer to her as the "greatest gardener of the twentieth century."
In photographs and words A Gardener's Life is her biography, and a joyous one it is. This volume serves not only as a chronicle of her work but as a guide for us, sure to be relished by those who love gardens, nature, and all things beautiful.
- Gail Cooke
Lady Salisbury, we learn, has always been drawn to gardens. As a youngster she tended to small areas in her parents' gardens. From this initial interest grew an abiding love and enormous responsibility as she later became chatelaine of England's Cranborne Manor and Hatfield House, where she brought these great groundss to renewed life.
In a description of her childhood gardens she writes, "From my earliest consciousness, I have noticed plants..." She was, she says, awakened by her mother's roses and the instructions she received as to how to cut a rose for a vase and how to prune roses to encourage reflowering. Little did she dream then that she would become a professional garden designer with commissions from throughout the world and count among her clients the Prince of Wales and the New York Botanical Garden.
Lady Salisbury has spent her life doing what she loved, and to this writing actively continues although she is in her 80s. She is the woman the New York Times called "The Green Goddess of English Gardens," while others refer to her as the "greatest gardener of the twentieth century."
In photographs and words A Gardener's Life is her biography, and a joyous one it is. This volume serves not only as a chronicle of her work but as a guide for us, sure to be relished by those who love gardens, nature, and all things beautiful.
- Gail Cooke
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A Lady Who Has Touched My Life...
19 Oct 2008
Format:Hardcover
I love gardens, created & maintain a large plantation garden in Louisiana (where gardening is an art form) & buy any book on them I can find. On one of my trips to Europe & while waiting to have Tea with the novelist Dame Barbara Cartland one day in 1998, I wandered in the neighborhood & discovered this huge garden & incredible country grand mansion nearby. Needless to say, I was hooked & have followed this wonderful Lady & her World. She preserved the original castle of Queen Elizabeth I which is on the estate & Barbara Cartland's land has the original trees-what a life!!!
Prince Charles has asked her advice & she helped him create his country world. With all of the romance of that association I knew this book would let us all know more than just the magazine articles I have saved over the years of her designs, lifestyle and wonderful taste.
This book captures it all & I highly recommend it. I wish I could have Tea with her & this Fall she is a speaker at the annual Antiques/Garden Show in San Francisco my other home...maybe it will happen....
Prince Charles has asked her advice & she helped him create his country world. With all of the romance of that association I knew this book would let us all know more than just the magazine articles I have saved over the years of her designs, lifestyle and wonderful taste.
This book captures it all & I highly recommend it. I wish I could have Tea with her & this Fall she is a speaker at the annual Antiques/Garden Show in San Francisco my other home...maybe it will happen....
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