Garden People - Valerie Finnis & the Golden Age of Gardening /anglais - Couverture rigide

Buchan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500513538 ISBN 13 : 9780500513538

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Roald Dahl and his family in their garden at Great Missenden; Nancy Lancaster, society hostess and interior designer, sporting an elegant straw sombrero and snipping delicately at her roses; Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst - these and many other dedicated gardeners are captured here by the discerning eye of Valerie Finnis. This photographic record of the postwar English gardening scene by one of the people at its epicentre will be devoured by anyone with a love of British gardens or horticulture in general.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'An admirable attempt to recapitulate the recent past of gardening in Britain'
-- Historic Gardens Review

'An endearing chronicle of a lost age'
-- The Sunday Times

'Beautifully packaged... This charming book won a surprise but well-deserved gong at the 2007 Garden Writers' Guild Awards... fabulous' -- The Sunday Telegraph

'In Finnis's photographs...(the) values and fashions which she saw through her lens now seem as dead as the dodo, lending these pictures a charming, nostalgic melancholy.' -- The World of Interiors

'It's fascinating and sometimes hilarious....' -- The Times

'One of our favourites of the year... fascinating and charming'
-- BBC Gardeners' World

'Small but perfectly formed, this is the record of the golden age of British gardening through the eyes of Valerie Finnis, who photographed the nation's greenest fingers with warmth and wit...' -- The Independent

Winner of the Enthusiast's Book of the Year 2007 --Garden Writer's Guild

Eccentric, wise and beautiful faces peer out at us from a different age. The flowers, gardens and fashion are all
fabulous. --The Edible Garden

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ursula Buchan writes a regular gardening column for The Spectator and the Independent and has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines. After Cambridge University, she trained as a gardener at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She has presented two series on flower shows for Channel 4 and has appeared on BBC radio. Her books include Gardening for Pleasure, Plants for All Seasons and Good in a Bed. She lives in Cambridgeshire

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0500513538
• ISBN 13: 9780500513538
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160