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Author : David Squire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858331812
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Victorian Cottage Gardens written by David Squire and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Masset
Publisher : National Trust
ISBN 13 : 1911657232
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Cottage Gardens written by Claire Masset and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style. The cottage garden's abundant, informal style is rooted in Victorian dreams of a perfect country life. But it has found new expressions from the Arts & Crafts movement to the present day. This book showcases a selection of National Trust cottage gardens, famous and obscure, including writer Thomas Hardy’s cottage in Dorset; the flower-filled cottage garden created at Sissinghurst, Kent, by Vita Sackville-West and harold Nicolson; the Tudor manor Cothele in Cornwall, Beatrix Potter's Cumbrian home, Hill Top, and the picturesque Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex. Cottage Gardens also features some of the most famous non-National Trust examples from around the country, including Kelmscott Manor, Dove Cottage and Eastgrove Cottage Garden. With practical advice on creating your own cottage garden, including key plants and techniques, this is a wonderful companion for all garden enthusiasts. With climbing roses, bright hollyhocks, pathways edged with honeysuckle, blossom-filled orchards and wildflower meadows, this is the perfect book to capture the idyllic British country garden.
Author : Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486142825
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Victorian Cottage Residences written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incredibly rich, firsthand source for the most popular styles of 19th-century Victorian architecture presents 26 cottage designs — including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, "rustic," more — and 155 illustrations (includes floor plans).
Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780563383482
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Geoff Hamilton's Cottage Gardens written by Geoff Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff Hamilton, long time presenter of Gardener's World, creates two new gardens suitable for today's busy lifestyles and limited finances, the low budget artisan's garden and the more elaborate gentleman's garden.
Author : Catherine Rice
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276622
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914 written by Catherine Rice and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that Scottish professional gardeners at this time were highly prized and sought after all over the world. And by the eve of the First World War Scottish cottage gardeners were raising flowers, fruit and a wide range of vegetables, and celebrating their successes at innumerable flower shows. This book delves into the lives of farm servants, labourers, weavers, miners and other workers living in the countryside, to discover not only what vegetables, fruit and flowers they grew, and how they did it, but also how poverty, insecurity and long and arduous working days shaped their gardens. Workers' cottage gardens were also expected to comply with the needs of landowners, farmers and employers and with their expectations of the industrious cottager. But not all the gardens were muddy cabbage and potato patches and not all the gardeners were ignorant or unenthusiastic. The book also tells the stories of the keen gardeners who revelled in their pretty plots, raised prize exhibits for village shows and, in a few cases, found gardening to be a stepping-stone to scientific exploration.
Author : Anne Wilkinson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495712
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Gardener written by Anne Wilkinson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening is one of the most popular leisure activities today and most people take it for granted that suitable plants, equipment and information are easily available. This was not always the case. Anne Wilkinson's engaging book recreates the world of amateur Victorian gardeners – those who had no idea how to start gardening, and no information to help them. In the 1860s gardening was mainly the preserve of professionals who worked on large estates, but a new breed of gardeners was emerging – ordinary householders. Their gardens range from country cottage and rectory gardens to urban gardens behind terraced houses. With no help from the professionals – who refused to believe that gardens in towns were a practical possibility – those innovators laid down the foundations for modern amateur gardening as it is today. This book, richly illustrated with images from contemporary magazines and other sources, explores their journey to create their own piece of England's 'green and pleasant land'.
Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300034721
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Country House written by Mark Girouard and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible
Author : Andrew Sankey
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785009508
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book English Cottage Garden written by Andrew Sankey and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instantly recognizable English cottage garden encapsulates that delightful mix of scented climbers, drifts of flowers inter-mingled with herbs and vegetables, fruit trees and traditional features. Much loved and copied throughout the world, it is uniquely individual. With no strict rules to adhere to, it is a garden style that is both informal and functional, celebrating fragrance, flowers and seasonal interest at its heart. The old cottage style of gardening, that blended planting to create a flowery yet productive plot within a small space, is still highly relevant and easily transferable to today's modern garden, whether it be a city courtyard or a large garden in the country. Appropriate for gardeners of every level of ability, The English Cottage Garden covers all aspects of designing a cottage-style garden; from choosing the right trees, climbers, shrubs and perennials to creating an authentic cottage feel to the planting It also covers the use of colour within the garden; how features can establish a framework and create focal points; and why companion planting is essential to this style. Illustrated throughout with a wealth of photographs showing gardens, planting combinations, colourful border schemes and individual flowers, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in the quintessential cottage garden.
Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018784X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Gardens of the British Working Class written by Margaret Willes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country to today, Margaret Willes's research unearths lush gardens nurtured outside rough workers’ cottages and horticultural miracles performed in blackened yards, and reveals the ingenious, sometimes devious, methods employed by determined, obsessive, and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. She also explores the stories of the great philanthropic industrialists who provided gardens for their workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicates and fierce rivalries between vegetable growers, flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on their city windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from gardener to gardener through generations. This is a sumptuous record of the myriad ways in which the popular cultivation of plants, vegetables, and flowers has played—and continues to play—an integral role in everyday British life.
Author : William Allingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Fairies written by William Allingham and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Ikin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747814589
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Gardener written by Caroline Ikin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the nineteenth century, gardening came to be considered a respectable profession, providing a means to an education, a good chance of advancement and decent working conditions. The hierarchy of the garden staff became just as regimented as that of domestic servants, and progression was attained by hard work, self-improvement and ambition. Training courses and apprenticeships prepared young gardeners for their trade and horticulture became recognised as a skilled profession, with the head gardener commanding a position of influence and respect and women overcoming social barriers to join their peers on equal terms. This book explores the gardening profession within the complexities of Victorian society and the advances in science and technology that pushed the gardener further into the limelight.
Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300163827
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Making of the English Gardener written by Margaret Willes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people and publications at the root of a national obsession
Author : Marta McDowell
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604693630
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life written by Marta McDowell and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An enchanting and original account of Beatrix Potter's life and her love of plants and gardening.” —Judy Taylor, vice president of the Beatrix Potter Society There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide and interest in her work and life remains high. And her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener’s biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Next, the reader follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler’s guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter’s gardens today.
Author : Caroline Ikin
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747811527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Garden written by Caroline Ikin and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening became a popular pastime in Victorian Britain with the rise of suburban gardens and a passion for the outdoors. New plant introductions from abroad brought a greater variety of plants, while improvements in technology made gardening more accessible. Gardening books and magazines spread the appeal and debate raged over the merits of colour and order versus wild and natural. The large and impressive gardens of country houses were emulated in suburban settings as the appeal of gardens and gardening spread to the masses, while the creation of public parks introduced green spaces to grey cities. As with architecture, Victorian gardens underwent a 'battle of the styles', and an exploration of the period reveals contrasting fashions for garish bedding, ornate Italian terracing, naturalistic planting, cool ferneries, colourful parterres, tranquil Japanese water features, and the occasional eccentric embellishment. The characters involved include such Victorian luminaries as John Loudon, Joseph Paxton and Charles Darwin, alongside the garden designers William Nesfield, Charles Barry and William Robinson, plant hunters Joseph Hooker, Robert Fortune and William Lobb, and the influential women Marianne North, Alicia Amherst and Jane Loudon. The pace of change makes the Victorian era of gardens an exciting time of exotic new plants, fiercely competitive head gardeners, impressive glasshouse engineering, strong personalities and contrasting ideals.
Author : Thomas J. Mickey
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444522
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book America’s Romance with the English Garden written by Thomas J. Mickey and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of “the year’s best gardening books” by The Spectator (UK, Nov. 2014) The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories—in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.
Author : Tovah Martin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395436097
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Tasha Tudor's Garden written by Tovah Martin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the artist's Vermont garden, which includes a variety of antique plants, and shares samples of her gardening knowledge.
Author : Andrew Clayton-Payne
Publisher : Cassell
ISBN 13 : 1841881767
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Victorian Cottages written by Andrew Clayton-Payne and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian painters idealized English country life as a place of carefree children, charming thatched-roof cottages, and pretty flowers. Here is both the nostalgia and the truth of that world--drawn from period artwork and from the era's great writers such as Thomas Hardy. See how the cottages were built, how they looked inside, and what activities took place there, from harvesting to crafting. These beautiful watercolors offer a tantalizing view of a pastoral paradise.
