Rachel Warne was the International Garden Photographer of the Year - Portfolio and RPS gold medal winner in 2010. Her work has appeared in magazines including Gardens Illustrated, Country Living, House and Garden, Home and Garden, Garden Life and The English Garden. This is her first book. She lives in London.
Beth Chatto (born 27/06/1923) was 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 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 was 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 lectured worldwide. She died in 2018.
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This beautifully assembled tribute to one of England's most
influencial and wonderful gardens will delight anyone who has ever
tried to make things grow
The most desireable gardening book of the year and it repays long
and careful attention, not just a quick browse
If you can't make the trip to Beth Chatto's famous Essex garden,
looking at A year in the Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens is the
next best thing... Rachel Warne is someone to watch, with a feeling
for how things grow and the way light falls. Add words by Fergus
Garrett and you have a book that is useful as well as
beautiful.
If you can't make the trip to Beth Chatto's famous Essex garden,
looking at A year in the Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens is the
next best thing... Rachel Warne is someone to watch, with a feeling
for how things grow and the way light falls. Add words by Fergus
Garrett and you have a book that is useful as well as
beautiful.Rachel Warne has trained her lens on the vivid foliage
and flowers that dominate these beautiful spaces. Fergus Garrett's
words are a perfect companion and really help to bring out the
character of the images.For visual food for thought, A Year in the
Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens is a sumptuous photographic guide to
her Essex gardens.An excellent coffee-table book with stunning
photographs of individual plants and views of the garden, this is
the story of a garden's year told in pictures, and a tribute to an
inspirational gardener… A visual treat for gardeners of all
abilities.An important visual record of a garden that has become
one of the most notable of the twentieth and twenty first
centuries.Once you have seen this book you will want to visit the
gardens. The perfect gift for gardening friends.Warne's
close-up and macro flowers are gorgeous, and it will make you want
to explore the world at a slower pace, appreciating colours and
playful lightIf ever you needed proof that a garden can have
year-round interest, this book provides it...We're given the chance
to take a walk through a one-off garden, guaranteed to fill us with
admiration for Chatto's achievements and renewed enthusiasm for our
own plotscaptured beautifullyThe most desireable gardening book of
the year and it repays long and careful attention, not just a quick
browseThis beautifully assembled tribute to one of England's most
influencial and wonderful gardens will delight anyone who has ever
tried to make things grow
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