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Secret Gardens: A Whimsical Gardening Book Celebrating the Hidden Corners of National Trust Landscapes
A whimsical and beautiful book celebrating these hidden gems of the National Trust – from specially made secret gardens to overlooked corners of famous gardens and re-discovered lost gardens.
Stunning photographs of the Trust’s idiosyncratic gardens are accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. The book will include secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials, strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled Overbeck’s in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions, and Monk’s House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for Virginia Woolf.
Stunning photographs of the Trust’s idiosyncratic gardens are accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. The book will include secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials, strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled Overbeck’s in Devon, Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions, and Monk’s House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for Virginia Woolf.
285 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 16, 2017
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August 24, 2017
A picture book of heaven for garden lovers! Gorgeous photography that transports you to these magical garden as well as a nice little blurb working as a mini tour guide to each. Ugh....if only teleportation was a thing. I'd spend my days in these beautiful refuges.
August 18, 2020
Paradise behind old walls. Luckily individual varieties are mentioned where appropriate, so that you can, for example, track down a dreamy rosa 'Gloire Lyonnaise' like that in the garden at Fenton House.
I could look at the picture on p.107, of roses in a fifteenth-century courtyard in Wiltshire, until the proverbial cows come home.
I could look at the picture on p.107, of roses in a fifteenth-century courtyard in Wiltshire, until the proverbial cows come home.
December 18, 2018
Wonderful photos and stories about some of the gardens in England ! I now want to travel to see these beautiful gardens! I enjoyed reading the stories behind the development of the homes and gardens and how designs were chosen to enhance the settings.
June 25, 2017
Beautiful photographs. Enough detail and photographs on each garden discussed that you can picture it.
May 18, 2021
A nice book about gardens.
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