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In the pages of The Cottage Garden, you'll first draw inspiration from the stories and landscapes of generations of famous cottage gardeners, including Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, William Robinson, Margery Fish, and Tasha Tudor. Then, meet modern cottage gardeners from around the globe who combine billowing masses of flowers such as poppies, delphinium, lupines, foxgloves, peonies, roses, lilies, and many more to create dreamy landscapes infused with the romance and wildness of cottage-style gardening.
You'll find no formal lines, rigid rules, or perfect spacing in the cottage garden. Instead, the form is organic and purposefully unstructured. Plants self-sow here and there, bulbs pop up and spread unrestricted, and everything appears casual; though as you'll come to learn through Dalby's words, it is all done with great intent.
Overflowing with textures and colors, the cottage gardens featured throughout this book in hundreds of full-color photographs are found in places as diverse as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England, and the United States. The accompanying text is derived from Dalby's personal visits to these gardens, along with his intimate interviews with the resident gardeners.
Dalby provides useful details about the design, development, and continued evolution of cottage gardens. He shares the stories of these breathtaking modern cottage gardens in a way that allows you to glean inspiration you can use to create a cottage garden of your own, whether large or small.
The gardens profiled in these pages exhibit the essential foundational elements and principals of well-designed cottage gardens. Whether home is in the countryside or a suburban subdivision, the profiled gardens will serve as both muse and motivation for the creation of a classic backyard cottage garden in your own space. This gorgeous tome is sure to become the bible of this much-adored classic garden design style.
Also by Claus Dalby:Containers in the Garden
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Release date
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780760379721
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780760379721
- File size: 125125 KB
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Languages
- English
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August 21, 2023
This sumptuous coffee-table book by gardener Dalby (Containers in the Garden) showcases some of the choicest cottage gardens in the U.S. and Europe. Praising the “uncultivated aesthetic and picturesque charm” of English cottage gardens, Dalby expounds on the plots kept by English authors Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), who “was famous for the way she mixed plants and focused on their shapes and colors,” and Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), who maintained a “sea of flowers with winding passages” around her home. Dalby’s focus expands across the globe as he moves into the present day. Images of the area around interior designer Bunny Williams’s Connecticut abode show amaranth and black-eyed Susans in plots surrounded by gravel pathways, and scenes from a small-town German garden include purple tulips and bleeding hearts hemmed in by boxwood hedges. Other highlights include a Danish kitchen garden planted in terraces carved out of a hill; an idyllic Bournville, England, cottage bordered by pilgrim and white cloud roses; and a Dorset estate that mixes trimmed shrubs with unkempt wild foliage. Dalby’s tendency to take closeup photos of specific features of the gardens can sometimes make it difficult to get a sense of their overall layout, but the vibrant foliage pictured nonetheless makes an impression. Garden lovers will be enchanted.
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