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We love having a nose around other people's gardens for relaxation and inspiration, and a delightful new book of Dorset gardens means we can continue to do so even when we're enjoying a typical British summer of driving rain and gale-force winds. Dorset photographer Roger Lane has put together a visual celebration of some of the country's finest gardens. From stately homes to unusual suburban plots, all 36 have been captured to their best advantage. (Dorset Echo )
Book of the Month: Something here for everyone who loves Dorset. (Dorset Life )
Plenty to delight in this photographic journey around 37 of the county's finest gardens. (Outdoor Photography )
Book of the Month: Something here for everyone who loves Dorset. (Dorset Life )
Plenty to delight in this photographic journey around 37 of the county's finest gardens. (Outdoor Photography )
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This is a portrait of forty of the best gardens in Dorset, from the intimate to the grand ranging over this timeless rural landscape of rolling hills, meadows, winterbournes and lush, well-wooded corners to the coast with its heathland, steep chines and spectacular cliffs.
There are delights and surprises aplenty, including a Roman temple in the suburbs of Bournemouth; a folly nestled within the fern garden of an ancestral manor; a classic cottage garden festooned with roses, honeysuckle and clematis; the spectacular subtropical coastal gardens of Abbotsbury; and the Arcadian landscape at Minterne, where a hillside of Himalayan rhododendrons and azaleas looks out over a chain of lakes, waterfalls and streams.
Written in close consultation with the owners of the gardens, Roger Lane's informative text details the history of each garden and its development under the current owners, and then focuses on design, planting and the garden's relationship with the surrounding landscape. Glorious photographs taken through the seasons show the gardens at their finest.
There are delights and surprises aplenty, including a Roman temple in the suburbs of Bournemouth; a folly nestled within the fern garden of an ancestral manor; a classic cottage garden festooned with roses, honeysuckle and clematis; the spectacular subtropical coastal gardens of Abbotsbury; and the Arcadian landscape at Minterne, where a hillside of Himalayan rhododendrons and azaleas looks out over a chain of lakes, waterfalls and streams.
Written in close consultation with the owners of the gardens, Roger Lane's informative text details the history of each garden and its development under the current owners, and then focuses on design, planting and the garden's relationship with the surrounding landscape. Glorious photographs taken through the seasons show the gardens at their finest.
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Format:Hardcover
This is not a guide you take with you but more of a coffee table book, the right thing for a cold winter day, but also for preparing a garden tour. It presents 37 private gardens, some of them regularly open to the public, some only under the National Garden Scheme, some not at all. Most gardens are in the typical English naturalistic style, with mixed borders abounding. The photographs are accomplished, the texts informative, the layout pleasing. I was glad to find two of my favorite gardens in the book: Forde Abbey and Mapperton Gardens, and I'm looking forward to visit gardens I have known little about so far, such as Knoll Gardens. For hobby gardeners, the book has something to offer, too, since many of the gardens shown, judging by the pictures, are relatively small, giving clues to what you could do - or sometimes better not do - with your own garden. All of the gardens have something to speak for them, though, I must confess, I found some of the ornamental features in a few gardens a bit haphazard. The great art of designing a small garden is to make it feel spacious, so less is sometimes more.
Format:Hardcover
The book arrived quickly and the effective packaging meant that it arrived in good condition.
Whilst more like a "Coffee Table" tome in size and weight, the content was very readible as one-off chapters. We look forward to visiting all the gardens detailed.
Whilst more like a "Coffee Table" tome in size and weight, the content was very readible as one-off chapters. We look forward to visiting all the gardens detailed.
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