World famous landscape designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd describes the inspiration behind some of her most beloved gardens and offers practical advice on planting plans and garden design.
Arabella Lennox-Boyd is an internationally renowned landscape designer. Italian by birth, she has designed over 700 gardens worldwide including 6 Chelsea Flower Show Gold medal gardens, including best of show in 1998. She is a trustee of the Chelsea Physic Garden; a member of the RHS Woody Plant Committee, and previously served as a Trustee of Kew Gardens for nine years. She was also awarded the RHS Veitch Memorial Medal for her work in Horticulture. Arabella has spent 40 years building her own garden at Gresgarth Hall in Lancaster, where she has created a remarkable landscape and arboretum, full of plants collected on her many plant-hunting trips.
Gardens in My Life is a personal journey... Particularly vivid are
the descriptions of Arabella's childhood holidays in Oliveto...
This instilled in her a deep and lasting love of nature that has
provided a rich seam of inspiration. This book is a compelling
testament to that'
*House & Garden*
It's a book that will no doubt adorn the coffee tables in the grand
houses she was first inspired by when she arrived in London. And
it's a testament to an extraordinarily creative and blooming
life
*Tatler*
Arabella Lennox-Boyd's memoir-like account is a complete joy to
read as well as to look at... A must'
*Country Life*
This beautiful book, by one of the most accomplished garden
designers of our time, looks back over Arabella's extraordinary
career and the gardens that have had particular interest or meaning
to her... Alongside breath-taking photography are Arabella's
fascinating sketches and planting plans'
*The Home Page*
Disarmingly candid memoir from a 'grande dame' of garden design,
filled with pragmatic insights into the practical business of being
a designer
*Gardens Illustrated*
[Lennox-Boyd is] an engaging, graceful writer with a
straightforward, almost modest style
*Anne Swithinbank, World of Interiors*
Wildly romantic, atmospheric and often festooned with roses,
Arabella Lennox-Boyd designs are celebrated with gusto in this
exploration of her work. From her own garden in Tuscany, to those
in Britain and beyond, it's heady, aspirational stuff. Wonderful
for luxuriating in on a wet winter afternoon, the mix of
conversational anecdote and description of the thinking behind each
garden makes for an enjoyable read. I particularly appreciated the
'masterplan' overhead drawings, which help the reader to orientate
themselves within each garden
*Rachel de Thame, The Times*
A nostalgic look back at her career and the private gardens that
have had a particular interest or meaning to her
*Landscape Magazine*
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