Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening

by Hobhouse, Penelope; Lawson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780711217904
• ISBN10: 0711217904
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl

Summary

Well known gardener shares her lifetime's experience of designing and making gardens.

Table of Contents

My Sort of Gardening	6	(12)
A Personal Philosophy of Gardening
The principles of garden design
Developing an individual style
Tintinhull
Appropriate planting
The Courtyard	18	(10)
A Restrained Approach
Planting up pots
Ceanothus and a few favourite evergreen shrubs
The Eagle Court	28	(22)
Formal Symmetry in a Walled Garden
Structural planting
Flowers through the seasons
Box and yew topiary
A passion for hellebores
Euphorbias in the garden
The Middle Garden	50	(20)
A Woodland Garden
Drought-tolerant planting
Seasonal performance
Encouraging self-seeders
Anemones for spring and autumn
Elegant hydrangeas
The Fountain Garden	70	(20)
Gardens Within Gardens
A golden scheme
A white garden
A foliage garden
Caring for grey and silver plants
The distinguished dogwood family
Different daisies
The Kitchen Garden	90	(32)
Decorative Means to Productive Ends
The Gallica rose beds and the dry ridge
The south borders
The eastern pathway
The north borders
The west beds
Sowing seed in open ground
Taking rose cuttings
Using shrub roses
Hardy geraniums
A wealth of viburnums
The Pool Garden	122	(44)
A Linear Garden with a Long Central Pool
The hot borders
The pale borders
The summerhouse beds
The pots
Planting the pale borders
Pruning roses
Propagating perennial lobelia
Small-flowered clematis
Companionable salvias
The pea family
The Cedar Court	166	(30)
Traditional Borders Surrounding a Central Lawn
The purple and gold border
The cedar tree border
The east border
The magnolia beds
The south side
Planting out annuals
The stately magnolias
Gardening with cyclamen
Onions in the garden: the alliums
Behind the Scenes	196	(12)
Plant Care and Garden Maintenance Through the Year
Winter into spring
Sowing seeds
Spring into summer
Taking seed
Taking cuttings
Summer into winter
Index	208	(8)
Acknowledgments	216