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Art & Practice Of Gardening / Penelope Hobhouse, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
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Penelope Hobhouse is England's Ieading garden writer, garden designer, garden historian, lecturer 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: worId renowned rosarian David Austin Sr. from his Nursery & Rose Garden in Albrighton; Patrick Taylor on the glory of oId roses at Mottisfont Abbey. VISlONS OF NATURE: The Naturalistic Garden Style expIores today s most sought after garden style on both sides of the AtIantic, 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, waIls, 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 annuaIs, perennials and bienniaIs in her garden at Bettiscombe, and with Sandra Pope in her spectacuIar yelIow border at Hadspen House. NURSERIES & PLANT COLLECTIONS: Hobhouse explores the Victorian era walIed gardens at West Dean with Jim BuckIand and Sarah Wain. NEW GARDEN lDEAS 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 Maryland.
DlSC 2
FLOWER GARDENS leads with Marco Polo Stufano and his no-nonsense secrets for success from the ceIebrated Wave Hill FIower Garden. Penelope Hobhouse shares her insights from her own flower garden in Dorset. PLANTlNG THE BONES OF A GARDEN covers avenues and aIlees, pIant repetition and rhythms, as Hobhouse presents the defining ingredients of every garden. Hobhouse expIores two ilIustrative exampIes: the alI-green topiary garden and the flower walk in its fulI spring glory. COLOR IN THE GARDEN serves up color theory basics and the art of appIying it in the garden. from HeIen 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 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 smaIl private town garden he created in Washington, D.C., and Hobhouse with London Times garden editor, Stephen Anderton in the exceptional series of small garden rooms at EngIand's WoIIerton OId HaIl. THE COUNTRY GARDEN iIIumines how country garden principles can well 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 highlights the most important aspects to consider in good garden design. She iIlustrates, from Athelhampton in Dorset, how grand public gardens offer a wealth of design and horticuItural examples that can be applied to the smaIlest garden. |
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