The Curious Gardeners' Six Elements of Garden Design

by Taylor, Gordon; Cooper, Guy

• ISBN13: 9780755310685
• ISBN10: 0755310683
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Summary

'The Curious Gardeners' are acclaimed for their stylish and original approach to landscape design. They became better known with their first television series in 2000 and its accompanying book, which featured an engagingly idiosyncratic selection of traditional, eccentric and contemporary British gardens. Now they delve deeper into the principles of garden design. Taking us on a tour of more than forty British gardens, they focus on the six essential elements of successful garden-making through the centuries: time, form, materials, water, sculpture and -- last but by no means least -- plants. They explore their themes in gardens small and simple and magnificently grand. As they elegantly demonstrate in their own design for a new London garden, there are as many lessons to be learned from the classic early landscape gardeners as from the most contemporary of today's designers. Bringing their irreverent eye and outspoken point of view to some of the most inspiring gardens in Britain today, the Curious Gardeners show how a garden's natural beauty can be dramatically enhanced by following simple principles of effective design. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor are garden and landscape designers (and the principals of Landscape Design in London), as well as noted garden writers. They have designed gardens throughout Great Britain, Europe and the United States They have written numerous articles in American magazines such as House and Gardens and Garden Design. They are the authors of eight books, Guy Cooper frequently lectures to horticultural organisations worldwide

Table of Contents

Introduction	10	(7)
time	17	(30)
The Manor House, Upton Grey, Hampshire	20	(4)
Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland	24	(6)
Sissinghurst Castle, Cranbrook, Kent	30	(4)
Levens Hall, Kendal, Cumbria	34	(4)
The Leonard Hotel, Mayfair, London	38	(2)
Maize Maze, Crawley, West Sussex	40	(3)
Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire	43	(4)
form	47	(24)
Hawkstone Park, Weston-Under-Redcastle, Shropshire	50	(4)
Hidcote Manor, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire	54	(4)
Claremont Landscape Gardens, Esher, Surrey	58	(2)
Shill House, Alvescot, Oxfordshire	60	(2)
National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales	62	(3)
The Lyceum, Newport, Essex	65	(3)
The Lexington, City Road, City of London	68	(3)
materials	71	(28)
Hestercombe, Taunton, Somerset	74	(6)
St. Catherine's College, Oxford	80	(4)
Three Gardens by Tindale & Batstone Cardiff and London	84	(4)
Ultra Modern Garden, Kennington, South London	88	(2)
Flora's Garden, Durngate, Northamptonshire	90	(2)
Thatched Pool House, Southern England	92	(4)
Hackney Community College, Shoreditch, East London	96	(3)
water	99	(26)
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, Ripon, North Yorkshire	102	(4)
Shute House, Shaftesbury, Dorset	106	(4)
Somerset House, The Strand, London	110	(4)
Antony, Torpoint, Cornwall	114	(4)
Naturalistic Lake, Storrington, West Sussex	118	(4)
Floating Gardens, Epping, Essex	122	(3)
sculpture	125	(32)
West Green House, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire	128	(4)
Silverstone Farm, Norfolk	132	(4)
Anglesey Abbey, Lode, Cambridgeshire	136	(4)
Trewyn Studio, St Ives, Cornwall	140	(4)
Half Acre, Boscastle, Cornwall	144	(2)
Garden in Mind, Stanstead Park, Rowlands Castle, West Sussex	146	(6)
Gardens of Gaia, Cranbrook, Kent	152	(5)
plants	157	(29)
Hadspen Garden and Nursery, Castle Cary, Somerset	160	(4)
Port Lympne, Hythe, Kent	164	(4)
Framed Planting, Gosport, Hampshire	168	(2)
Great Dixter, Rye, East Sussex	170	(6)
Jenningsbury Farm, Hertfordshire	176	(3)
Bury Court, Farnham, Surrey	179	(3)
The Beth Chatto Gardens, Colchester, Essex	182	(4)
Select Bibliography	186	(4)
Index	190