Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening

by Andrew Lawson (Photographer), Andrew Lawson (Photographer), Penelope Hobhouse (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  Penelope Hobhouse shares her lifetime's experience of designing and making gardens, and reveals the secrets behind her distinctive style of gardening. Taking as her model Tintinhull, the garden she tended for 14 years, as well as using other practical examples from the gardens she has designed, she communicates her knowledge of: design - how to achieve the style and atmosphere you want; planting - planting plans that can be transferred from the page to the flower bed and essays on favourite plants that help gardeners make their choices; and practical gardening skills - close-up photographs show how she takes cuttings, plants up pots, prunes, propagates, controls weeds and performs other gardening techniques.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.25

  This guide to gardening reveals the secrets behind Penelope Hobhouse's distinctive style of gardening. Taking as her model, Tintinhull, the National Trust garden in Somerset which she has tended over the past 14 years, she sets out her principles of gardening, and explores the elements that compose a garden of excellence. Through practical examples, drawn from Tintinhull and from gardens she herself has designed all over the world, she shows gardeners how they can achieve the results they want, and shares her labour-saving tricks as well. Close-up photographs show how she takes cuttings, plants up pots, prunes shrubs, clips topiary and generally keeps the garden looking wonderful.