The Vision of Edna Walling: Garden Plans 1920-1951

by Trisha Dixon, Jennie Churchill

Traces the life and career of Edna Walling, the garden designer, from 1920 to 1951. Edna Walling translated her design concepts into watercolour paintings which convey the ambience of the finished gardens. This book contains 50 of these evocative watercolours, some recently discovered.

Genres: Gardening

150 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2004

Reviews

[Alexandria Blaelock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely collection of some of Walling’s gardens. Each entry includes one of her watercolour designs, a note of what remains of the original garden as well as photos - some colour and some old Walling black and white where they’ve been accessible. There’s some discussion of the planting - not enough information to recreate the gardens, but enough to get a solid foundation for creating something similar.

[Ness Foley]

Wonderful. If you like gardening and garden design (not a necessity) you'll enjoy this immensley. Dixon is a beautiful writer with extensive knowledge and research and I treasure this book.

[Cris Mcgrath · Rating 5 out of 5]

This helped me design lots of my gardens. Shame gardens don't come in these sizes anymore. Shame I had to hand my 2 acre garden over to fresher hands to love.