In this volume Rosemary Verey takes the reader on a personal tour of her garden at Barnsley House, Gloucestershire. She discusses her learning process in making it - including not only successes but also changes as the garden evolved - and covers different gardening skills.
Rosemary Verey's Making of a Garden
Here is her story, recounted by a successful Manhattan attorney who worked with her as a volunteer, who saw her as both a person and a professional, and who was close to her for the last twenty years of her life.
Offers planting plans for a variety of garden designs, including herb gardens, formal gardens, scented gardens, summer borders, knot gardens, and cutting gardens
Highlighting more than one thousand flowers and plants, this practical gardening guide explains how to develop an aromatic landscape and provides classic recipes for preserving the garden's perfumes in potpourri,...
This book brings together ideas to try, lessons to learn and tips to remember. Illustrated with scale plans, planting schemes and sketches and with colour photographs, this is a practical and inspirational guide.
Thirty women describe their flower and vegetable gardens and discuss the special problems they had to solve to make the gardens successful
Rosemary Verey, in her life as in her work, was the very personification of the English garden style. This book is for anyone who believes a garden makes one small part of this earth a little more beautiful.
All the secret gardens in this book are real, not imaginary, although they posses the beauty and mystery of their forebears.
Shows and describes the author's favorite English gardens during each of the four seasons
Packed with glorious images and practical tips, A Year at Brandywine Cottage will inspire you to live a life enriched by nature every day of the year.