Penelope Hobhouse is an internationally known and respected
gardener and garden planning consultant, as well as a best-selling
gardening writer. For twelve years she tended and enhanced the
garden at Tintinhull in Somerset, which attracted thousands of her
followers to visit every year. With a firm underlying structure and
carefully calculated vistas, the new garden she has created in
Dorset is a fine example of her philosophy in action. Her
experience as a designer and plantswoman, combined with hands-on
garden making and maintenance, in-depth research into garden
history, colour in the garden and the provenance of plants, as well
as travels all over the world, make the range and depth of her
knowledge virtually unequalled. She lectures widely in Britain,
Europe and the United States of America and is a regular
contributor to gardening columns and periodicals on both sides of
the Atlantic.
Ambra Edwards studied garden history at Birkbeck College, London.
She is an environmental campaigner and award-winning writer, three
times named the Garden Media Guild's Journalist of the Year. Her
work appears regularly in the Telegraph, Guardian and leading
garden journals.
'A book for which the word 'magisterial' might almost have been
coined... an authoritative tour d'horizon of garden styles across
the world'
*The Spectator*
'A book valued not just for the written information but as a
pictographic library too'
*Candide Gardening App.*
'Much to absorb and enjoy'
*Country Life*
'What Penelope [Hobhouse] so successfully achieves is casting the
visions of today over the layers of the past, contextualising them
in a way that diminishes neither the new nor the old…Comprehensive
work'
*House & Garden*
'Deservedly claims its position on the bookshelf'
*The English Garden*
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