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by Christopher Lloyd (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New edition edition (9 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0304359017
  • ISBN-13: 978-0304359011
  • Product Dimensions: 25 x 18 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 851,999 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is Christopher Lloyd's best-known book. His famous gardens at Great Dixter draw people from around the world. His name is kept in the forefront of people's minds with constant media exposure including his weekly articles for Country Life, written since 1963 without an issue missed.


About the Author

Christopher Lloyd was born in the fifteenth-century half-timbered manor house his parents bought at Great Dixter in 1910. All his life he has developed and refined his celebrated garden, constantly experimenting with new plants and ideas in the use of shape and colour. In 1979 the Royal Horticultural Society conferred on him its highest honour, the Victoria Medal of Honour, and in 2000 he was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honour List. Only recently he was won the Garden Writers' Guild Reference Book of the Year Award with Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A superb read for any keen gardening bookworm., 3 Mar 2002
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As a recent garden convert, I found this book not only practical, but sensible and entertaining.

I have devoured many a gardening book and monthly magazine, but not one has explained ideas behind gardening in such an uncomplicated and chatty way.

I love the way he encourages the gardener to be flexible, experimental and instinctive. I finally understand pruning - so it must be good!

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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A gardening classic that doesn't date, 27 Aug 2001
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Christophers writing on gardening is one of the few excuses busy gardeners have for staying in bed, being warm and indulging oneself and still enhancing our plant repetiore. I devour his books like the best of my home grown produce and for someone of his great years he is probably the greatest living gardener this green isle has to offer. I highly recommend anything he writes.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best, 10 Feb 2008
By Benjamin (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Well-tempered Garden (Penguin gardening) (Paperback)
Christopher Lloyd was a passionate gardener with much practical experience from running his own extensive gardens at Great Dixter, Sussex. This book with over thirty sections under six main headings covers almost every aspect of gardening in a fresh and questioning manner, often dispelling long held opinions.

In addition the book is illustrated with many of the author's own photographs (1973 edition). It also has a glossary and substantial index.

Christopher Lloyd's writing is outspoken, opinionated, witty, entertaining, authoritative, practical, informative, one could go on, but above all it is a sheer pleasure to read. Without doubt Christopher Lloyd was one of the greatest garden writers, and this book must rank among his best. This offering notwithstanding its age is an absolute gem; with so many shallow gardening books now being published writing such calibre only goes to highlight the dearth of able garden writers today.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A well-tempered gardener!
This is one of my all-time favourite gardening books and it was a pleasure to buy it for a friend. I wish I could have afforded the illustrated hard back (five star rating)... Read more
Published 3 months ago by The old grey mare

5.0 out of 5 stars Need to read with "Succession planting..."
A wonderful legacy for Christopher Lloyd, and should be read with "Succession planting for adventurous gardeners" as this book shows many of the plants and displays what Mr. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Temperament
30 years on, this is still temper-proof... Lloyd takes no prisoners - manure, to wild gardening in grass, and what not. He did it. He grew it. He smelt it. So listen to him! Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2001

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