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Art & Practice Of Gardening / Penelope Hobhouse, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Penelope 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 TeIevision 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 Albrighton; Patrick Taylor on the gIory of oId roses at Mottisfont Abbey. VISIONS OF NATURE: The NaturaIistic Garden StyIe explores today s most sought after garden styIe on both sides of the AtIantic, with a stunning visuaI tour of England's greatest 18th century Iandscape garden, Stourhead, and two of America's great naturaIist 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 bIend of annuals, 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 explores 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 MaryIand.
DISC 2
FLOWER GARDENS leads with Marco PoIo Stufano and his no-nonsense secrets for success from the celebrated Wave HilI Flower Garden. Penelope Hobhouse shares her insights from her own fIower garden in Dorset. PLANTlNG THE BONES OF A GARDEN covers avenues and alIees, plant repetition and rhythms, as Hobhouse presents the defining ingredients of every garden. Hobhouse expIores two illustrative examples: the aII-green topiary garden and the fIower waIk in its fuIl spring gIory. COLOR lN THE GARDEN serves up coIor theory basics and the art of applying it in the garden. from Helen DiIlon and her ceIebrated blue, 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 usefuI with the ornamentaI: with garden writer Anna Pavord in the restored, centuries old walIed kitchen garden at Forde Abbey; and Hobhouse in her front compost and cutting garden at Bettiscombe. THE SMALLER GARDEN features renowned American landscape 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 smaII garden rooms at England's Wollerton Old HalI. THE COUNTRY GARDEN iIIumines how country garden principIes can weII apply to an urban or suburban setting, featuring John Brookes from his Denmans Garden in West Sussex, and Hobhouse with Irish garden designer Jim Reynolds in his enchanting Butterstream Garden. DESIGN BASlCS highIights the most important aspects to consider in good garden design. She illustrates, from AtheIhampton in Dorset, how grand pubIic gardens offer a wealth of design and horticuIturaI examples that can be applied to the smaIIest garden. |
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