The Edwardian Gardener’s Guide
The Edwardian Gardener’s Guide

Author: Twigs Way

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0747815186

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It is Edwardian England, and a delightful flower garden and fruitful allotment are matters of personal pride, boons for the family dinner table, and even 'important acts of local patriotism'. 'The Edwardian Gardener's Guide' selects nuggets of wisdom from the best-selling 'One & All' garden books, originally published in 1913. In these short booklets, the foremost agricultural and horticultural writers of the period revealed fashions in gardening styles, the best seasonal plants, how to enhance food production and how best to lay out adventurous rockeries, ferneries and grottoes. Packed with charming contemporary advertisements and colour illustrations, this handbook gives a glimpse of the pre-First World War 'golden era' of British gardening. With an introduction by garden historian Twigs Way.

The Edwardian Garden
The Edwardian Garden

Author: David Ottewill

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780300043389

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This book features colorful vistas and detailed images of England's most ambitious gardens cultivated during the indulgently eclectic Edwardian age.

The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto
The Great Edwardian Gardens of Harold Peto

Author: Robin Whalley

Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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The gardens of the great Edwardian landscape designer are captured in all their glory in 200 color and duotone images from the archives of Country Life. Harold Peto (1854–1933) was one of the most celebrated landscape designers of the Edwardian era. A leading exponent of the ultra-romantic Italianate style so fashionable in the first two decades of the 20th century, he was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. Much admired by the likes of Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens, he was recognized as one of the most successful garden designers of his generation and enjoyed a formidable reputation both in England and the south of France. The commentary is brought to life by 200 ravishing photos depicting many of Peto's gardens in their heyday.

The Edwardian Gardener’s Guide
The Edwardian Gardener’s Guide

Author: Twigs Way

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0747815194

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It is Edwardian England, and a delightful flower garden and fruitful allotment are matters of personal pride, boons for the family dinner table, and even 'important acts of local patriotism'. 'The Edwardian Gardener's Guide' selects nuggets of wisdom from the best-selling 'One & All' garden books, originally published in 1913. In these short booklets, the foremost agricultural and horticultural writers of the period revealed fashions in gardening styles, the best seasonal plants, how to enhance food production and how best to lay out adventurous rockeries, ferneries and grottoes. Packed with charming contemporary advertisements and colour illustrations, this handbook gives a glimpse of the pre-First World War 'golden era' of British gardening. With an introduction by garden historian Twigs Way.

Edwardian Culture
Edwardian Culture

Author: Samuel Shaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1351378457

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Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. Bringing together essays on literature, art, politics, religion, architecture, marketing, and imperial history, the study highlights the extent to which the culture and politics of Edwardian period were closely intertwined. The book builds upon recent scholarship that seeks to reclaim the term ‘Edwardian’ from prevalent, restrictive usages by venturing beyond the garden party – and the political rally – to uncover some of the terrain that lies between. The essays in the volume – which deal with both famous writers such as J. M. Barrie and Arnold Bennett, as well as many lesser-known figures – draw attention to the nuanced multiplicity of experience and cultural forms that existed during the period, and highlight the ways in which a closer examination of Edwardian culture complicates our definitions of ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modern’. The book argues that the Edwardian era, rather than constituting a coda to the Victorian period or a languid pause before modernism shook things up, possessed a compelling and creative tenor of its own.

Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden
Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden

Author: Rosamund Wallinger

Publisher: ACC Distribution

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Fascinating account of the faithful restoration of a Gertrude Jekyll Garden working to the original plans. Filled with practical advice.

Edwardian Country Life
Edwardian Country Life

Author: Helena Gerrish

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Published: 2011-08-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780711232235

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Henry Avray Tipping (1855-1933) was a wealthy architectural historian and garden designer. As Architectural Editor of Country Life he made it essential reading for everyone interested in Britain's great country houses, their furnishings and their gardens. Tipping restored a bishop's palace for himself and his mother, built one of the last important country houses in which to entertain the Edwardian great and good, and, after the First World War, commissioned his ideal 'cottage'. Always the garden came first; each was a perfect Edwardian idyll. As a fine gardener herself, the author describes Tipping's own Monmouthshire gardens at Mathern Palace, Mounton House and her own High Glanau Manor, as well as gardens he designed for others, notably at Chequers and Dartington Hall. Tipping, who had no family of his own, was central to the lives and work of such distinguished garden designers as Robinson, Jekyll and Peto.

Miss Willmott of Warley Place
Miss Willmott of Warley Place

Author: Audrey Le Lièvre

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0571280811

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Born in 1858 to a wealthy family Ellen Willmott owned three gardens, in England, France and Italy, and employed one hundred and four gardeners. She mixed with royalty and her name was associated with the greatest gardeners of her time, Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson and E. A. Bowles. In 1894 she joined the Royal Horticultural Society and in 1897 she was one of the first sixty recipients (and one of only two women) to receive the Victoria medal of honour. Warley Garden in Spring and Summer, a book of photographs, was published in 1909 and in 1912 she published The Genus Rosa. In the same year she was awarded the grande médaille Geoffroi St Hilaire from the Société d'Acclimatation de France and in 1924 received the Dean Hole medal from the National Rose Society. An acknowledged and admired expert in her field Ellen Willmott died in 1934 aged 76, alone and nearly bankrupt. First published in 1980 this carefully researched biography is a fascinating account of a woman who was infamous in her time and whose mark can still be seen on the horticultural world today. Miss Willmott of Warley Place is republished to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Ellen Willmott's birth.

Edwardian Gardens
Edwardian Gardens

Author: Anne Jennings

Publisher: Historic England Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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Focusing on the outdoor spaces of the common people as well as those of the well-to-do, 'Edwardian Gardens' describes the formal and wilder 'plantsmen's' gardens that were popular at the end of the Victorian era and the contrasting of different styles inoutdoor 'rooms'.

Edwardian House Style
Edwardian House Style

Author: Hilary Hockman

Publisher: David & Charles Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780715312278

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This source book for recreating the style and decor of the Georgian period, covers all aspects of internal and external plan and design, including gardens. It also provides information on how to restore, replace and care for period features.