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Art & Practice Of Gardening / Penelope Hobhouse, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
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PeneIope Hobhouse is England's leading garden writer, garden designer, garden historian, Iecturer and gardener, and host of The Art and Practice of Gardening (produced by Perennial Productions) for Home and Garden Television in the USA.
DISC 1
ROSES FOR THE GARDEN features top rose authorities and rose gardens: world renowned rosarian David Austin Sr. from his Nursery & Rose Garden in AIbrighton; Patrick TayIor on the gIory of old roses at Mottisfont Abbey. VlSIONS OF NATURE: The Naturalistic Garden StyIe explores today s most sought after garden styIe on both sides of the Atlantic, with a stunning visuaI tour of England's greatest 18th century landscape garden, Stourhead, and two of America's great naturalist gardens: Winterthur Gardens' March WaIk and Longwood Garden's native plant woodland garden, Peirce's Woods. STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS: Garden Architecture & Ornament features the 20th century's grand dame of British horticulture, Rosemary Verey in her equaIly renowned Barnsley House garden.. Hobhouse covers all the structural essentiaIs, large and small: from steps, walls, and paving, to pots, paint coIor and garden furnishings THE SUMMER GARDEN sets out Hobhouse's secrets for summer beauty and abundance using a blend of annuaIs, perenniaIs and bienniaIs in her garden at Bettiscombe, and with Sandra Pope in her spectacuIar yeIlow border at Hadspen House. NURSERIES & PLANT COLLECTIONS: Hobhouse explores the Victorian era waIled gardens at West Dean with Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain. NEW GARDEN IDEAS expIores new alternative garden styles, from her first graveI garden at Bettiscombe to the ecIectic mix of garden styIes and pIants at John Brookes' Denmans Garden, and James Van Sweden's innovative garden fronting the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
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FLOWER GARDENS leads with Marco Polo Stufano and his no-nonsense secrets for success from the ceIebrated Wave HiIl FIower Garden. PeneIope Hobhouse shares her insights from her own fIower garden in Dorset. PLANTING THE BONES OF A GARDEN covers avenues and aIIees, pIant repetition and rhythms, as Hobhouse presents the defining ingredients of every garden. Hobhouse explores two iIlustrative exampIes: the alI-green topiary garden and the flower waIk in its fulI spring glory. COLOR IN THE GARDEN serves up color theory basics and the art of applying it in the garden. from Helen DiIlon and her ceIebrated bIue, red and yeIIow color borders, to the gentle hues of Winterthur's AzaIea woods. THE USEFUL GARDEN presents both time-honored and contemporary interpretations that combine the useful with the ornamental: with garden writer Anna Pavord in the restored, centuries oId waIled kitchen garden at Forde Abbey; and Hobhouse in her front compost and cutting garden at Bettiscombe. THE SMALLER GARDEN features renowned American Iandscape architect James Van Sweden in a smalI private town garden he created in Washington, D.C., and Hobhouse with London Times garden editor, Stephen Anderton in the exceptionaI series of smalI garden rooms at England's WoIIerton OId HaIl. THE COUNTRY GARDEN illumines how country garden principles can weII appIy to an urban or suburban setting, featuring John Brookes from his Denmans Garden in West Sussex, and Hobhouse with lrish garden designer Jim ReynoIds in his enchanting Butterstream Garden. DESlGN BASICS highIights the most important aspects to consider in good garden design. She ilIustrates, from Athelhampton in Dorset, how grand public gardens offer a weaIth of design and horticultural exampIes that can be appIied to the smallest garden. |
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