Secret gardens

by Masset, Claire

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Title Statements

Full title :Secret gardens / Claire Masset.

Summary

Collected here are stunning photographs of the National Trust's idiosyncratic gardens, accompanied by a light text meditating on the magic of the secret garden, and bringing in fascinating historical and botanical details. This book includes secret mazes, hidden corners, walled gardens, lost gardens, gardens that are only open one day a year, follies, orchards, dens, memorials, strange statues, stumperies, huts, ice houses, wendy houses, fairy gates, and pixie houses. The gardens featured include the palm-filled Overbeck's in Devon; Peckover House in Cambridgeshire, which bursts with exotic specimens found on Victorian plant-hunting expeditions; and Monk's House in East Sussex, where the garden proved a refuge for Virginia Woolf.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The National Trust Books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

The Physical Object

Description:191 pages : : colour illustrations ; : 22 x 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781909881907, 1909881902
oclc:ocn989058763
LC Classification:SB469-476.4
Dewey Decimal:712.6

Gardens on the edge of the world -- Town gardens -- Arts and crafts gardens -- Writers' retreats -- Modern masterpieces -- More secret gardens.

Subjects

Architecture and Planning Gardens Gardens -- Great Britain Gardens -- Guidebooks. -- Great Britain Gardens -- History. -- Great Britain Gardens -- Pictorial works. -- Great Br… Gardens, British Great Britain Guidebook Guidebooks Guides touristiques Historic gardens Historic gardens -- Great Britain History illustrated books Illustrated works Jardins -- Grande-Bretagne Jardins -- Guides. -- Grande-Bretagne Jardins -- Ouvrages illustrés. -- Grand… Jardins britanniques