Gardening

Designing with Plants - The Great Dixter Way

by Fergus Garrett (author), Carol Casselden (photographer)

Description

When the great gardening iconoclast Christopher Lloyd died in 2006, many wondered what would become of his world-famous garden, Great Dixter in Sussex. Until almost the end of his life Lloyd himself had felt that the best option would be just to let the garden wither away. But then he discovered a man he was prepared to trust with Dixter: his head gardener and great friend Fergus Garrett. This is the first book in a series on Gardening and Life at Great Dixter. In Designing with Plants Fergus Garrett describes how the plantings at Dixter are composed: the importance of scale and balance and of contrast in colour, texture and shape; the anchor plants that punctuate the schemes; the plants that dance through the beds, softening and veiling the effect; and how above all the gardener must never be afraid to experiment, to play, to introduce surprise. Future books in the series will include Succession Planting; Annuals; The Exotic Garden; Managing the Garden.  
Designing with Plants - The Great Dixter Way

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Worldwide rights available excluding Germany

Author Biography

Karen Barbe is a textile designer, embroiderer, self-taught photographer and blogger based in Santiago, Chile. With a background in retail and marketing, she currently designs her own brand of home textiles and accessories, drawing inspiration from traditional crafts, folklore, textiles, handcrafting, cheap plasticware - anything simple and unpretentious. She is also a lecturer at the School of Design of Universidad Catolica de Chile and hosts embroidery workshops in her studio in Santiago. Her work has been featured internationally on media including Martha Stewart Living (USA), frankie (Australia), 101 Woonideeen (Netherlands), Kireei (Spain), VAV (Sweden), Nylon (Korea) and Milk (France).

Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Pimpernel Press
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781910258217
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 25 GBP
  • Pages208
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions270x210 mm
  • IllustrationColour photographs throughout

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