Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening - Rilegato

Chatto, Beth; Lloyd, Christopher

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0711234612 ISBN 13: 9780711234611

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Riassunto

In this exchange of personal letters two of Britain's leading gardeners - Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto - share their successes and failures, and learn from each other's experiences in their two very different gardens.

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Recensione:

... a delightful collection of letters ... offers a unique insight into their successes and failures. Candid, amusing, revealing and informative

(Daily Telegraph )

My favourite read of the year is this entertaining correspondence between our two greatest living gardeners

(Sunday Telegraph Magazine )

What links and distinguishes (in both senses) these two writers is that they never pass on a received opinion about a plant or gardening practice or theory. Everything they say is rooted firmly in observation and experience so their thoughts and opinions carry weight and value

(Hardy Plant )

It is this book, I suspect, that many gardeners would most like to find at the ends of their beds when they wake up on Christmas morning

(Independent on Sunday ) --Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Hardy Plant, Independent on Sunday

L'autore:

Beth Chatto (born 27/06/1923) is a plantswomen, gardener and writer. Whilst having no formal horticultural training, she was inspired by her parents' enthusiastic gardening, her husband's lifelong study of natural associations of plants, and friendship with the great plantsman and artist Sir Cedric Morris. The Beth Chatto Gardens began at Elmstead Market, Essex in 1960. By applying the principles of ecological gardening, she transformed an overgrown area of wasteland into informal gardens that harmonise with the surrounding countryside. Complementing the gardens is a large plant nursery producing a wide range of unusual plants, which attracts thousands of visitors each year. She has won ten Gold Medals the Chelsea Flower Show and was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour (1987), the Lawrence Memorial Medal and an honorary doctorate from Essex University. She is the author of many books including her classics The Dry Garden (1978) and The Damp Garden (revised 2004) as well as Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden (2000) and Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden (2002). An engaging exchange of letters with Christopher Lloyd, Dear Friend and Gardener, was published in 1998. In 2002 she was awarded the OBE for her services to horticulture. A keen advocate of organic gardening, she has lectured worldwide. She lives in Colchester in Essex.

To visit the Beth Chatto Gardens website click here

Christopher Lloyd was among the best informed, liveliest, most worthwhile gardening writers of our time and the author of a host of classics. He lived in Northiam, East Sussex and died in January 2006.

Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter, first worked at the Beth Chatto Gardens as a student, over twenty years ago, and has remained a close friend of Beth's ever since.

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• Editore: Frances Lincoln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0711234612
• ISBN 13: 9780711234611
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320