ISBN: 9780207157509 - gardens in time: in the footsteps of edna walling (1 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 134 pages. Good landscape designers create gardens that are a joy to be in; great landscape designers create gardens that endure throughout the years. To many, Edn a Walling, who worked prodigiously between the 1920s and 1960s, is the greatest landscape designer that Australia has known. Her writings and garden designs con tinue to be influential and inspirational. But what of the gardens desig ned so many years ago? Do foxgloves still 'gatecrash' and forget-me-nots 'romp m errily'. Have the shrubberies developed as intended and the stands of trees matu red gracefully?Trisha Dixon and Jennie Churchill, armed with notebook an d camera, set out to record as many of Edna Wailing's gardens, in their maturity ; as they could trace. The result is a beautiful testament to an extraordinary c reative talent.Ranging from the mellowed stonework of the great gardens at Durrol and Mawarra to the sweeping, tree-filled vistas of country gardens now come of age like those at Kiloren and Kildrummie; from elegant mystery in city gardens to small fragments that have endured time in country cottage gardens, Ga rdens in Time follows in seven-league footsteps. Here are gardens that have endu red and are a joy to be in. And here is continuing inspiration and delight.…