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Book

The cottage garden

Call Number

  • 635 D137 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Beverly, MA : Cool Springs Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2023.

Physical Description

336 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm

Summary

"Lushly illustrated and with beautifully descriptive text, The Cottage Garden is a guide to appreciating and creating plantings in the classic cottage garden design style"--

Notes

"The original Danish edition was published as: Cottagehaven © Klematis A/S Denmark"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Contents

  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Danish garden history
  • The English cottage garden
  • Helen Allingham
  • William Robinson
  • Gertrude Jekyll
  • Vita Sackville-West
  • Margery Fish
  • Tasha Tudor
  • Cottage garden inspiration
  • The people's gardener
  • The real thing
  • Really wild
  • A clear favorite
  • Just like in England
  • A New England garden
  • Anita's country cottage
  • Childhood memories
  • The mother-daughter garden
  • Chocolate box cottage
  • More German idyll
  • The quintessential cottage
  • A beautiful garden in southern Sweden
  • A special harmony
  • Pure cottage style.

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