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"the author admirably and eloquently provides a survey of 25 significant gardens made or remade in the past decade. .. his erudite text, complemented by sumptuous photography by Andrew Lawson, captures the actuality and spirit of time and place."“one of the most important and interesting gardening books published this year … Richardson writes elegantly and perceptively … Lawson’s photographs are of sparkling quality and depth”"thought-provoking text provides a tightly knit commentary on each garden with plenty of horticultural information and potted biographies of the designer or garden creator ... all 25 gardens in this book deserve their place, each contributing to a visual treat of a book."'Tim writes insightfully about the 25 gardens he has chosen for the book' "Richardson delivers an excellent overview of the current state of landscape design in England ... This bookâ??s spot-on combination of pithy prose and drool-worthy images will make it a sure hit with landscape-design professionals and armchair gardeners alike""readers with only a vest-pocket backyard to till can find ideas worth adapting on a smaller scale""This book is a masterpiece, and will come to be seen as the classic statement of English gardens at the start of the 21st century."'No one writes better about the English gardening scene than Tim Richardson. He has a formidable range of reference and a brilliant way with words. . . The book is a big, lush production, superbly put together. Most of the photographs are by Andrew Lawson (nobody is better) and they are well used, in luscious double spreads of reflecting pools and stilt hedges, eremurus and echinaceas, miscanthus and stipa. . . . The great strength of The NewEnglish Garden is to show what a various creature that garden is . . . The overall impression this book gives is not about conformity in garden design, but delicious, untrammelled variety.''Intelligent, though-provoking and occasionally contentious. If you are serious about contemporary English gardens, this is a book you cannot do without'"Superb photographs show both the explosive detail in the beds and the sweep of the landscapes, and Richardson's text looks firmly at the intellectual as well as the horticultural and design content of these gardens."'a sumptuous record- much to admire - and envy.'â??gloriously photographed book â?¿ Richardson, one of the punchiest writers around, has taken a risk by including historic gardens that are more â??renewedâ?? than new, but, as ever, he pulls it off.â?Â'the best kind of book to have by your side ... a big lush production, superbly put together ... most of the photographs are by Andrew Lawson (nobody is better) ... So, in your mind, you might already have glued this book to the coffee table.  Don't.  Richardson is a terrific writer.  The great strength of The New English Garden is to show what a various creature that garden is.'â??one of the most important and interesting gardening books published this year â?¿ Richardson writes elegantly and perceptively â?¿ Lawsonâ??s photographs are of sparkling quality and depthâ?Ââ??There can be few garden observers who are more knowledgeable and curious about gardens and garden design than Tim Richardson.â?Ââ??a finely written book, glorious to look at, provocative, deeply admiring of the current excellence of English garden making, and with its own cutting-edge sense of fun.â?Â"Gorgeous photography means you can almost smell the roses as you turn the pages strolling through 24 of the grandest gardens created in the past decade" "the author admirably and eloquently provides a survey of 25 significant gardens made or remade in the past decade. .. his erudite text, complemented by sumptuous photography by Andrew Lawson, captures the actuality and spirit of time and place."'Tim writes insightfully about the 25 gardens he has chosen for the book'
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About the Author
ANDREW LAWSON is widely regarded as England's leading garden photographer. He has provided the photographs for many books, including Good Planting by Rosemary Verey, Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening, Designing Gardens (9780711217577) by Arabella Lennox Boyd, Little Sparta (9780711220850) by Jessie Sheeler, The Garden at Highgrove by HRH Prince of Wales, and The English Garden (9780711226388)by Ursula Buchan and The New English Garden (9780711232709) also by Tim Richardson. He holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Medal for Photography and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Garden Writer's Guild. His garden in Oxfordshire is open under the National Gardens Scheme.Tim Richardson is a writer who specializes in garden and landscape design and history. He has been gardens editor at Country Life, and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine, and was founding editor of both the award-winning gardens magazine New Eden and Country Life Gardens. He now contributes mostly to the Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Country Life. He is the author of Phaidon's The Garden Book, Vanguard Landscapes Gardens of Martha Schwartz, English Gardens of the 20th Century and Arcadian Friends: the Makers of the English Landscape Garden. He is also editor of Vista: the Culture and Politics of Gardens (Frances Lincoln).
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Product details
Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: Frances Lincoln; Tabletop edition (October 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0711232709
ISBN-13: 978-0711232709
Product Dimensions:
10.5 x 1.5 x 12.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#519,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
If you are a gardener and/or thinking about going to England, you would enjoy this gorgeous book. The photography is outstanding.
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For garden lover, i found it well written, and explain... I love it... A book I like to have it next to me!
"The New English Garden" by Tim Richardson might easily be mistaken for just another lushly photographed coffee-table book describing well-designed gardens, the "garden porn" that gardeners love to curl up with during the cold winter months when they dream of spring.But "The New English Garden" differs from and is superior to most other books portraying gardens in two ways. First, author Tim Richardson is a knowledgeable garden historian who chose the gardens in his book to illustrate a larger story of the direction in which British garden design has been moving in the past decade or so. This aspect alone places his book a level above the standard "portrait of a garden" collections which simply showcase beautiful gardens of a region or type.However, this book is different in another, even more important way: Richardson is part of a new movement in Britain that is attempting to move gardening from its status as merely a hobby or technical profession to a more widely respected art form, on a plane with visual art, music or writing. This movement insists that for gardening to be taken seriously as an art form, it must be subject to the same type of artistic criticism that differentiates between good and better art, the kind of constructive criticism that pushes artists to improve their work.So after Richardson describes each of the twenty-five gardens in this book and relates why he deems it significant, he then identifies both the most successful aspects of each garden, as well as any weaknesses he perceives. And this last bit is where the big difference lies.It is actually slightly shocking to read something that is not 100% positive about someone's garden, when usually garden write-ups are limited to upbeat, admiring descriptions of both gardens and gardeners. Richardson's suggestions for improvement are of a wholly constructive kind, pointing out specific areas that he believes could be improved or an overall strategy that could make the garden even better than it currently is. But it nonetheless takes a certain amount of chutzpah to say of the Prince of Wales' garden that "the garden at Highgrove does not quite hang together as a coherent whole." And he bluntly states of Piet Oudolf's garden at Scampston Hall that "the overall structure of the new walled garden is a failure."This type of plain speaking will undoubtedly benefit gardening as a whole, as long as it is reserved for serious artistic efforts at gardening - not criticizing well-meaning amateur gardeners' efforts.But just because "The New English Garden" was intelligently-written and added to my understanding of modern gardening doesn't mean it wasn't still a beautiful book with lavish garden photos to drool over. The photographs of Pettifers, Temple Guiting and Gresgarth were particularly magnificently flower-filled. And the photos of some of the gardens planted in the last decade's New Perennials (grasses and large drifts of perennials) style also showed an attractive vision of what these gardens look like at their best.But, in keeping with Richardson's desire for serious criticism, I will point out a couple of things that would have made the book better: First, there sometimes seems to be a disconnect between Andrew Lawson's photos and Richardson's text. One example: Richardson asserts that "perhaps the most successful part of the Tilbury House garden is the walled kitchen garden to the south-west," and describes it at length in appetite-whetting terms, but I could not find a single photo of this "most successful part" of the garden, which was quite disappointing.Another small quibble is the lack of garden maps or plans, which are unfortunately all too rare among garden books. I spent quite a bit of time puzzling out the overall layout of each garden -- something Richardson tries to describe, but not always with success. A picture is worth a thousand words.But these points aside, "The New English Garden" is one of the most important garden books to be published this year in terms of garden writing, and certainly among the more beautiful. This is a book that I will look at many times and read carefully, again and again, in my search for understanding of what makes great gardens great.(For a more detailed review, including photos, please visit my blog: gardenfancy.blogspot)
Beauty is something universally admired by gardeners, as that is a fundamental part of their vocation, and what a supremely beautiful book this is. Written by Tim Richardson and photographed by Andrew Lawson, Jane Sabire and Rachel Warne, it is an intimate tour of 25 visually spectacular English gardens, all of which were either made or re-designed in the last ten years. Hence the “new†in the title. Weighing in at more than five pounds, it consists of 300-plus pages and is ten by twelve inches, and so is a solid coffee table book that demands to be left out for anyone interested to peruse. Each garden is covered in ten to fifteen sumptuous pages, and you could do much worse that to study one garden each day with your morning coffee, in these dark days of late fall and early winter.English gardening is, at the present moment, at a very interesting inflection point. The 1990s saw the zenith of the “tapestry traditionâ€, the Arts & Crafts, color-blending movement and the beginning of a less floral, more naturalistic wave, led by the Dutch and German designers. Prominent among them is Piet Oudolf, for example and his famous “Dutch Waveâ€, that gives greater prominence to the whole plant and its structures in all seasons, than to its floral expression at one brief moment of glory. This new style has been met and matched in England by a more relaxed English style of gardening associated with the gardening legend Beth Chatto and others, in what is called the New Perennial Movement. And recently, there has been a reaction against both of these new waves and a return to a more traditional and familiar English style and vernacular.So this book fascinatingly explores this very vital moment of design flux, that is so very rich in inspiration and possibility. Thoughtful and amazing plant combinations and re-combinations are beautifully presented and detailed. Often a garden profile includes pictures of the garden in late autumn or winter, rimed in frost or dusted with an early light snowfall, and how beautiful these pictures are. The colors and the flowers are sculpturally subtracted, emphasizing the inherent beauty of the compositional plant forms, surely a revealing test of any garden’s underlying design. To me, these are some of the most interesting pictures in this book.There are some very famous gardens presented here, such as Christopher Lloyd’s Great Dixter and the Prince of Wales’ amazing garden at Highgrove, but it also presents the brand new massed plantings of the Olympic Park in London from 2012, as well as the sublime Gresgarth (by Arabella Lennox-Boyd) and Bury Court (by Piet Oudolf). It would be heaven to spend the last two weeks of May and the first two weeks of June some year, touring the great gardens of England, and certainly garden tourism is strongly on the rise there. But for now this wonderful book will do. It is sure to be on many Christmas lists and will be enjoyed by anyone with an eye for the beautiful potential of the garden. It is one of those great gifts that is so much fun to give and even more fun to receive.
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