From a Victorian Garden: Creating the Romance of a Bygone Age Right in Your Own Backyard

ISBN-10: 0670894265
ISBN-13: 9780670894260
Category: Gardening
Language: English
Published: 2004
Publisher: Studio Books
Authors: Michael Weishan, Cristina Roig

Description

From Michael Weishan, host of the long-running PBS series The Victory Garden, comes the first gardening book of its kind. From a Victorian Garden offers a unique landmark approach to traditional gardening by bringing back to life the lush splendor of an actual Victorian garden via period photographs, letters, and journals, and using these records as a guide for today's landscapes. In From a Victorian Garden, Weishan provides the reader with a distinctive two-pronged approach to the process of creating a historically accurate period garden. He first tells the story of the O'Reilly family and Point Ellice House, the Victorian home and garden they built more than a century ago in British Columbia. Point Ellice, long considered to be one of western Canada's finest collections of Victoriana still in its original setting, remained in the O'Reilly family from 1868 through 1975. The remarkable historical records left by this family then became a point of departure from which Weishan shows the reader how to replicate the magnificence of a well-planned and executed turn-of-the-last-century landscape. Using the gardens of Point Ellice as a guide, Michael Weishan shows readers how to re-create the romance of the Victorian garden right in their own backyards, from simple projects such as growing period annuals to more advanced gardening skills, such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying out a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. A must-have, highly accessible addition to every gardener's library, From a Victorian Garden is at once a journey back in time to the gilded age of gardening as well as an up-to-data reference for creating period landscapes today. Michael Weishan is a twenty-year veteran in the field of historical gardening. In addition to being principal of his own landscape design firm, Michael Weishan and Associates, Weishan is also the host of PBS's The Victory Garden as well as the gardening editor for Country Living Magazine and contributing editor to Country Living Gardener. He lives outside of Boston in a restored 1852 farmhouse surrounded by three acres of gardens Book jacket.

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