Search Results: English Gardens from Carrageen Books

Chatto & Windus, 1988. Soft cover. Good. Clean copy, in good condition. The Yearbook of The Royal Horticultural Society 1988/9 Also celebrates 75 Years of shows at Chelsea, and the latest developments in British gardening.

E. H. May, London., 1891. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good. Inside cover detached somewhat, original brown gold gilt. 6th edition. Gardener Helen Dillon's copy. A practical treatise on propagating, growing and exhibiting from the cutting to the silver cup. viii, 111pp. illustrated in black and white. Selection of advertisements to the back.

Viking, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Revised Viking edition, near fine condition.slightly shelfworn on DJ. Very clean. From the masterful Christopher Lloyd originally published in 1965, this edition from 1989 revised with Tom Bennett.

Frances Lincoln, in association with The National Trust, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition, near fine/ as new inside, just very slight shelf wear to dust jacket. 1st edition.

Ward Lock Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition, from Author Alan Toogood, on Lime-Free Gardens. Published by Ward Lock in 1989.

Constable, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Humour and Horticulture:the Collected John Cushnie. From 10 years writing for The Daily Telegraph. Very good condition, clean copy. Very good dust jacket.

Geoffrey Bles, London, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket and protective cover.First Edition. The gardens created by Osgood Mackenzie's in 1862 on a peninsula exposed to the Atlantic weather are described by Mrs Cowan from the notes of her late husband who looked after the gardens for the National Trust of Scotland. pp 152. Well illustrated in colour and monochrome plts. The dust wrapper has a small tear on the upper rear hinge and a little wear on the edges, but secure under protective cover.

Merrell Publishers, 2019. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. New and in cover. Perfect condition. Kiftsgate Court, perched on the northern edge of the Cotswolds Hills in Gloucestershire, is a garden composed of many different scenes. Some elements - the bluebell wood, the clipped hedging and the rose border, with its famously huge Kiftsgate rose - are traditionally English, but there are also areas of Italianate planting and terracing, and others where a mixture of perennials, roses and rare and exotic shrubs thrive side by side. Equally remarkable is the fine balance between continuity and gentle evolution that the visitor finds at Kiftsgate. This is largely because the garden has belonged to the same family since its creation 100 years ago. Three women have tended Kiftsgate, each one its driving force for a third of a century, and each building on the legacy of the previous generation. In 1919 Heather Muir and her husband, Jack, bought the house, which stands on a relatively narrow plateau from which a… Read More

J. M. Dent & Co, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition with vg DJ. From the well known garden writerJane Taylor.

Intl Specialized Book Services, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition with good dust jacket, 1st edition from 1987 from Brian Halliwell. Gardener Helen Dillon's copy.

Mitchell Beazley, 2013. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. New copy of the Centenary edition, 'Take Chelsea Home' from Chris Young, revised and updated to celebrate the Centenary of the greatest garden show on earth. Celebrating 100 years of the Chelsea Flower Show with a beautiful centenary edition, Take Chelsea Home identifies the best in garden design and landscaping. This inspirational sourcebook presents the most attractive, practical and portable designs and illustrates how these ideas might work in any garden. Chris Young, editor of RHS magazine, focuses on the fines details and finishing touches that help to transform our gardens and outdoor spaces. This extensively updated version of the 2010 original includes a wealth of new images from the best of the Chelsea Flower Show during the last three years, with new text on recent design and horticultural innovations and a range of award-winning show gardens. Take Chelsea Home instructs readers on how to create the garden of their dreams by… Read More

Collins, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good condition with good condition original Dustjacket, some tears on top corner, top of spine and top back, otherwise intact. Price clipped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean. Very Good copy from the prolific British writer Harold John Massingham.

B. T. Batsford, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In very good condition with VG DJ. With the help of extensive lists of plants culled from contemporary magazines and nurserymen's catalogues, and making use of the published work of the great collectors and hybridists, Richard Gorer has written here the first detailed analysis of the horticultural development of the flower garden in England. In a style as elegant as it is precise, and with the help of generous illustrations, he starts by discussing the influx of exotics in Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens. Then, after considering the planting styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he goes on to write of what he calls the 'floral explosion'. This is the prelude to three chapters on the nineteenth century and three on the twentieth the great periods of the English flower garden. Using his scholarship in an easy and graceful manner, Richard Gorer has produced a work which will be of consuming interest to all serious… Read More

David and Charles, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the private E library of Gardener Helen Dillon, this is the revised edition of 1971,1st published in 1951 by Francis Perry. The former owners writing is lightly on the front cover, and on inside page, otherwise clean. In very good condition with vg dust jacket.