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Title: The Englishman's Garden by Alvilde Lees-Milne, Rosemary Verey ISBN: 0-670-82010-5 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Pub. Date: 21 March, 1988 Format: Hardcover

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Summary: A wonderful viewpoint of British country gardening
Comment: "The Englishman's Garden" edited by Alvilde Lees-Milne and Rosemary Verey is a wonderful pictoral and viewpoint of British country gardening. This book includes thirty-three short but informative essays from Englishmen who pride themselves on gardening and who offer sound advice on how to choreograph landscape. The text also includes nearly two hundred stunning color and black & white photographs of some of Englands finest country gardens.

Controlled symmetry, wild gravel gardens, dramatic sculpture and daring borders are all discussed within the pages of this impressive text. Moreover, the editors include detailed plans and month by month maintenance of majestic gardens from tier one gardeners. I especially enjoyed the variety of shapes and the evergreen contrasts of color and texture in Sir Frederick Ashton's Garden at Chandos Lodge, Eye, Suffolk. Sir Frederick is a master gardener who was born in Ecuador and lived in Peru. He moved to Chandos Lodge in 1958 and within twenty-five years he skillfully created one of the finest gardens in the world.

Another fine garden and essay included that of Sir Bernard Lovell at The Quinta, Swettenham, Cheshire. He created a garden in which paths wind through the trees and shrubs with the flowers of spring in the undercover. In the summer, brilliant roses and lovely clematis smother the house and walls inside the garden. Overall this is a very good book about gardens with many centuries of evolution. An added bonus of "The Englishman's Garden," is that it can also double as a good coffee table book in addition to a practical guide to landscaping for intermediate & expert gardeners.

Bert Ruiz