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Ethne Clarke has placed Hidcote in context, revealing the tastes of the time, the gardeners and plant collectors whom Major Johnston would have known and places he would have visited .Avid gardeners will savor the chapter titled The Garden in Season that highlights the plants in each garden at Hidcote and ends with an impressive list of plant introductions by Major Johnston. After reading Hidcote: The Making of a Garden, I find it is clearly time for me to make another visit to see the great strides that Britain s National Trust has made in restoring Major Johnston s fabulous garden creation.--Charlotte Frieze
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This is an enlarged edition of the standard reference book, originally published in 1989. It is the major study of Hidcote, the world famous garden created by Lawrence Johnston, an American straight out the pages of Henry James. Now Ethne Clarke has collected much new and original material that freshly illuminates the creation of the garden and presents Johnston's life in the context of the period that set the seal on England's pre-eminence in garden design and plantsmanship. In addition to seasonal lists of plants associated with Hidcote, the book also features new information about Johnston's other major work, Serre de la Madonne, now a French national monument.
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For those who have fallen in love with Hidcote Manor Garden, and who want to know more, this book is a treasure trove of information. Lawrence Johnston who created this garden (his American mother bought it for her son in 1907 and her trust fund paid all the expenses) was a confirmed bachelor, very shy and left very little information behind. So what little information there was, Ethne Clark has made a fantastic job.
The book is beautifully designed but restrained in a New Yorker sort of way. The pictures feel very small, why not use the page properly? Why so much white space around? So if you want more pictures of plants and flowers, from Hidcote, you need another book. Well you need both books!
The book is beautifully designed but restrained in a New Yorker sort of way. The pictures feel very small, why not use the page properly? Why so much white space around? So if you want more pictures of plants and flowers, from Hidcote, you need another book. Well you need both books!
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Great story of garden and gardener
22 Oct 2009
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When you love a garden, you want to know everything about it. Not just about the garden itself, its plants, pathways and ornament, but also about the garden maker, his history, his inspiration, his life. Or hers. If you love Dumbarton Oaks, then you want to know about Beatrix Farrand; if you love Barnsley House, then it's Rosemary Verey (and just where is that biography?). For me, it's Hidcote Manor Gardens and its maker Lawrence Johnston. And so I'm delighted to have been sent a review copy of Ethne Clarke's new edition of her book first published in 1989, and to share my reaction here and at my blog, [...].
What moves us to create gardens? In her book, Clarke explores the influences of family, friends and the atmosphere of early 20th-century England on Lawrence Johnston that led him to create Hidcote Manor Gardens, one of the most influential landscapes of the 20th century.
Americans Johnston and his mother, moved to the Cotwold village of Hidcote Bartrim in 1907, and Johnston (at first with his mother) began what he would not finish until 1948, the year he signed a deed of trust that handed over Hidcote to the National Trust--the first garden it acquired and which it still maintains today.
Information unearthed in the last few years led to Clarke's new edition, which delves more deeply into Johnston's life and times. It's an enjoyable and fascinating read, sort of a gossipy tell-all but with actual facts and a good bit of garden design theory thrown in. Johnston brought together two warring schools of thought at the time--formal garden design versus the naturalistic approach. He used both, with a formal landscape near the house segueing into the wild further out.
Clarke traces the influence of Johnston's family and friends, the effects of World War I and the social influences of the times had on him. The account, personable and fascinating, tells a lively story and brings Johnston and Hidcote, the first garden to be acquired by the National Trust, to life. We've taken two groups through Hidcote, and each time property manager Mike Beeston has told us great behind-the-scenes stories; my favorite was the rumor that Norah Lindsay's daughter Nancy burned all of Johnston's papers because she was so upset not to have inherited Hidcote. I've not seen that story anywhere else until I read Clarke's book.
What moves us to create gardens? In her book, Clarke explores the influences of family, friends and the atmosphere of early 20th-century England on Lawrence Johnston that led him to create Hidcote Manor Gardens, one of the most influential landscapes of the 20th century.
Americans Johnston and his mother, moved to the Cotwold village of Hidcote Bartrim in 1907, and Johnston (at first with his mother) began what he would not finish until 1948, the year he signed a deed of trust that handed over Hidcote to the National Trust--the first garden it acquired and which it still maintains today.
Information unearthed in the last few years led to Clarke's new edition, which delves more deeply into Johnston's life and times. It's an enjoyable and fascinating read, sort of a gossipy tell-all but with actual facts and a good bit of garden design theory thrown in. Johnston brought together two warring schools of thought at the time--formal garden design versus the naturalistic approach. He used both, with a formal landscape near the house segueing into the wild further out.
Clarke traces the influence of Johnston's family and friends, the effects of World War I and the social influences of the times had on him. The account, personable and fascinating, tells a lively story and brings Johnston and Hidcote, the first garden to be acquired by the National Trust, to life. We've taken two groups through Hidcote, and each time property manager Mike Beeston has told us great behind-the-scenes stories; my favorite was the rumor that Norah Lindsay's daughter Nancy burned all of Johnston's papers because she was so upset not to have inherited Hidcote. I've not seen that story anywhere else until I read Clarke's book.
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