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In Gardens of Inspiration, 15 top designers enthuse in 15 chapters over the gardens that have shaped, coloured and inspired their professional lives, starting with a description of their own garden. Packed with wonderful photography by Vivian Russell, she is also one of the featured writers. Her garden in Cumbria moulds itself into the landscape, showing how sometimes a small range of plants can blend more harmoniously than a riot of colour.
In Gardens of Inspiration, 15 top designers enthuse in 15 chapters over the gardens that have shaped, coloured and inspired their professional lives, starting with a description of their own garden. Packed with wonderful photography by Vivian Russell, she is also one of the featured writers. Her garden in Cumbria moulds itself into the landscape, showing how sometimes a small range of plants can blend more harmoniously than a riot of colour.
Inevitably each writer has strong opinions, none more so than Nigel Colborn, who speaks of "that eternal blasted laburnum tunnel". There is the naturalistic viewpoint of Dan Pearson and Stephen Lacey, the modernist, simple asymmetrical lines preferred by John Brookes, the abundant, colourful herbaceous borders loved by Christopher Lloyd, where plants can "spill out from the borders and self-seed freely". At the other end of the spectrum are the stylised large landscape gardens with long axial views favoured by Penelope Hobhouse with more cosy, smaller-scale vistas enjoyed by Rosemary Verey.
If you are a keen gardener and are familiar with most of the names in this book you will delight in the designers' views on gardens that you may know well yourself. There is nothing extremely controversial or starkly modern, no brightly coloured decking or large steel structures nor indeed a single Japanese garden or anything lushly tropical. These are designers with decades of experience reflecting on their influences over the years from gardens accessible to them. The contrasting styles and the plethora of photographs in the book make it a tempting read and visually satisfying. --Lesley Pace --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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