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3 reviews
Penelope Hobhouse, Simon Johnson, 1997

Excellent "portfolio" that serves as a teaching tool
Hobhouse's book combines the look of a coffee table book with the practicality of a manual with her many varied garden design examples. Each design has an explanation followed with outstanding photos. However, the best part is that she illustrates in plan how her plants are grouped so that the beginning gardener can learn about spatial concepts while also about plant placement, color, ...

Great Gardens of the World: In Search of Paradise

3 reviews
Penelope Hobhouse

Frances Lincoln, 2006

A VOLUME TO SAVOR AND RETURN TO AGAIN AND AGAIN
The ideal garden we are given to understand is a paradise - "a haven of comfort, abundance, and beauty." Many of us try to achieve that paradigm in our own way, as have countless others before us. Now gathered in one gorgeous volume are the results of those endeavors gleaned from diverse cultures and climes. We begin our armchair tour with "Gardens Through the Centuries," a journey ...

Penelope Hobhouse's Natural Planting

2 reviews
Penelope Hobhouse

Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1999

Beautiful, tasteful, inspirational
This book covers the use of native and other well-suited plant choices to match your local conditions and create beautiful, generally lower-maintenance, informal gardens. Beautiful photographs, tips for various cultural types (e.g., meadow gardens, shrub borders, woodland edges) and design theory, with a moderate emphasis on the temperate conditions one might find in England or New England. This ...

Flower Gardens

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

New Line Books, 2001

Wide Ranging and Authoritative
I have an extensive library of gardening and landscaping books and this wonderful book is one of the best for how to incorporate flowering plants effectively into your garden whether it be natural or formal. The carefully chosen photographs illustrate points in the text and show garden situations achievable by the average gardener. The A to Z guide of selected plants for the flower garden ...

Fascinating Rhythm: 2The Collaboration of Georg and Ira Gershwin

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Dutton Adult, 1991

Stunningly beautiful, intelligent, fun, and engaging
When this book came out I was graduating from college with atheatre degree. A little lost, but in love with a recording of StrikeUp the Band, I bought this book. This beautiful book gripped me,delighted me and enchanted me. 7 years later, I'm writing my dissertation on musical theatre, with my first chapter (and my favorite) on the Gershwins. Deena Rosenburg's book is a model of what musical ...

Plants in Garden History

2 reviews
Penelope Hobhouse

Pavilion Books, 1992

The best book on Garden History I've read
This beautiful book by one of the most acclaimed gardening experts in the world is a fascinating walk through the gardens of the past. From ancient gardens through to medieval enclosed gardens and more modern garden styles, Hobhouse is a fantastic guide to matters of style, content, and design. If you enjoy garden history, or books like Anna Pavord's The Tulip I think you will really like ...

Color in Your Garden

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Little Brown & Co (T), 1985

A book of inspiration for the perennial gardener
I have pored over the pages of this book and learned volumes from it. Hobhouse's discussion of color theory and its relationship to the garden is a revelation, and her suggestions and illustrations of garden companions are inspirational. When you get serious about designing your borders, this is essential reading.

Garden Style

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Willow Creek Press, 1997

a beautiful book full of design inspiration
If you are looking for a beautiful book full of ideas for perennial garden design, this is it. The book is full of great color pictures of absolutely gorgeous famous gardens. Although few of us have the space, time or money to have our own gardens of the size and caliber we see in this book, many of the ideas can be applied to the home garden. Not just a juicy coffee table book, both the text ...

A Garden Lost In Time: The Mystery of the Ancient Gardens of Aberglasney

1 review
Penny David

Seven Dials, 2001

All is not lost....
This work is of monumental significance in shaping our perception that reclaiming our heritage is not limited to sterile buildings but living things as well. While world attention is rightfully focused on preserving intact the rain forest, this work demonstrates that we need to reclaim those centuries old living islands that have somehow persevered and relay to us today, the vivacious ...

Gertr.jekyll on Grdng

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Vintage, 1985

First Lady of moden garden design
This book is a collection of M's Jekyll's garden writings, edited by Penelope Hobhouse. Some of her garden plans would just be impoosible to replicate unless you have a large estate and lots of cash to spend on landscaping, but that shouldn't stop you from reading this book. M's Jekyll's knowledge of plants and gardening is just as relevant as when she originally wrote the articles. The book is ...

My Mother's Garden

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse, Dominique Browning, ...

Amazon Remainders Account, 2005

Anthology of Multiple Authors' Heartwarming Essays
This collection of essays, authored by an impressive group of writers, is a poignant tribute to mothers everywhere. An easy read, the book is not unlike a bag of literary potato chips -- you just can't stop with the first essay. I found myself totally immersed in one story after another, till the whole book was read. I laughed some, cried a little, and marveled at the pleasant memories of ...

Herbs for the Home: A Definitive Sourcebook to Growing and Using Herbs

1 review
Jekka McVicar

Studio, 1999

comprehensive and easy to use gardening book
Easily one of the best gardening books i own. This book is thoughtfully organized to be useful and intuitive to everyone - even those who have never grown a plant before in their life. The herbs are indexed in both common, family and latin names, with descriptions and numerous photos of many varieties of each herb. Propogation and growing tips (focusing on a natural, organic approach whenever ...

The Gardens of Europe

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Random House, 1990

Gardens in Eastern Europe...
Penelope Hobhouse edited THE GARDENS OF EUROPE and her name alone should encourage the reader to pursue this book through the Z-shops since apparently it is out of print. Hobhouse is considered by many to be one of the world's foremost garden experts and her contribution to the book is undoubtedly the selection. Penelope won't send you to a garden not worth seeing. The stated purpose of the book ...

Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)

3 reviews
Reginald Arkell

Modern Library, 2003

A Nice Old Story About A Nice Old Time
Old Herbaceous was first published in about 1950. It is the fictional chronicle of the life of Old Herbaceous, the head gardener at an English manor house. He begins life as a foundling child, early develops a love for flowers which grow along an abandoned canal, and then becomes a gardener at the manor house after impressing the Lady of the Manor at a garden show. Gradually he rises through ...

Penelope Hobhouse's Gardening Through the Ages: An Illustrated History of Plants and Their Influence on ...

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Simon & Schuster, 1993

More of a text book than a coffee table book
Every page is packed with color plates and useful (fun) information on gardening. Contents: * The origins of Gardening in the West * The Gardens of Islam * The Medieval Gardens of Christendom * Botanists, Plantsmen and Gardens of Renaissance Europe * The Gardens of the Italian Renaissance * The Origin and Development of French Formality * The Eighteenth-century English Landscape ...

The Story of Gardening

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2002

A must-have for all gardeners!
"The story of gardening, traced through almost three millennia to the 21st century, is not just one story but an infinite number-as many as there have been gardeners. And it can be told in infinite ways..." Penelope Hobhouse, one of the most prolific and talented garden authors of our time, wrote. She started her story from the origins of gardening: the records and remains of the gardens and ...

Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Frances Lincoln, 1998

Lush and beautiful photographs....
For over 20 years, Penelope Hobhouse has been building a garden at Tintinhull in England. Hobhouse's philosophy is that one never exhausts the possibilities. Each site has infinite strengths and weaknesses, and those can change and be changed. In addition, plants have their own natures which react differently in different settings. She says a plant in a garden on the Isle of Oronsay, an oasis in ...

Architecture in the Garden

6 reviews
James Van Sweden, Tom Christopher

Random House, 2003

My favorite reference book
I am a landscape designer and I use this book constantly, not only for inspiration, but also for the illustrations provided on how to construct many of the architectural features shown. This book has a permanant place on my drafting table and has so many paper clips marking pages--it is by far the most useful book about landscape architecture I have come across.

A Gardener's Journal

1 review
Penelope Hobhouse

Frances Lincoln Publishers, 1997

Pretty pictures, useful record keeping
The pages are broken down by week (March, week 1) and there are enough entry spaces for 6 years. There is almost no text, but the photo captions are nice. Lots of pics of British gardens, but some in the US too.

Gardens of Persia

3 reviews
Penelope Hobhouse

Cassell Illustrated, 2003

Truly a book for all readers!
This book comes close to being all things to all readers. And if you don't feel like reading, you can simply enjoy the generous spread of illustrations -- maps, drawings and diagrams, beautifully reproduced Persian miniatures and above all the superb photographs by Jerry Harpur, a longtime specialist in capturing gardens and plants all over the world on film. This is much more than a picture ...

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