Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been designing gardens and garden buildings together since 1983. They have won many competitions including an RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal.
“Successes and failures are happily mulled over, giving real
insight into the process that is large scale garden design.”
*Topiarius*
“The Bannermans’ designs combine monumentality with carefully
balanced humour and it’s a pleasure to learn how they come to
fruition.”
*The Garden*
"This lavish book is a portal into a delightful escapist
dreamworld.
*Telegraph*
"We may live in a digital age but still there’s nothing quite like
the enduring pleasures of a real gardening book. Among the best of
this year’s crop is Landscape of Dreams, a lushly illustrated,
beautifully-penned and instructive account of the work of this
well-known UK garden design duo."
*Irish Times*
"Prince Charles has contributed a glowing introduction to their
lavishly illustrated book, Landscape of Dreams...fascinating."
*Sunday Times Ireland*
"Nobody makes magic like designer duo Julian and Isabel Bannerman,
who have created fabulous, fanciful gardens at Highgrove, Waddesdon
Manor and Arundel Castle. The couple’s weighty book, Landscape of
Dreams, chronicles these gardens and more, and makes inspiring
reading."
*Evening Standard 10 of the Best Christmas Gifts for Gardeners*
"I just gorged myself on this magnificent book. Utterly
transporting. It’s the first gardening book I couldn’t put down."
*Dominic West*
"An amazing book from cover to beautiful cover...The descriptive
writing is very compelling and fuels the imagination...It's a
triumph and a revelation to the reader."
*Sue Dickinson*
"Isabel and Julian Bannerman have turned dreams to ethereal reality
time and again. This is a glorious scrapbook-style story of some of
their most notable works."
*The English Garden*
"An absolutely magical book. Such brilliant writing, vivid, engaged
. . . this is a most potent record of true brilliance."
*Anna Pavord*
"Their style is very striking and fantastical...eye-opening
browsing."
*Evening Standard Best Gardening Books of 2016*
"The Bannermans are artists but they can also write."
*Spectator*
"Weavers of garden fairy tales..."
*Homes and Gardens*
"This book, a personal account of the couple's key design projects,
builds up a picture, both in words and images, of what this special
touch involves."
*Gardens Illustrated*
"A beautifully illustrated and endearing part-biography,
part-overview of the thinking behind their work..."
*Sunday Times Garden Book of the Year*
"A sense of fairy tale defines all [the Bannermans’] projects . . .
Included in this book are their projects large and small, from
their 1994 Gold Medal winning Chelsea garden to the Highgrove
stumpery . . . culminating in their own much loved gardens at
Hanham Court and, most recently, Trematon Castle in Cornwall.
Beautifully written by Isabel, the book reads like a diary,
beginning in their childhoods...Designed by their friend Dunstan
Baker, the book is illustrated with their own photographs and
drawings, giving it a personal, intimate appeal."
*House and Garden*
"Character oozes through every pore of the book."
*Country Life*
"Full of wonderful photographs - but do read the writing from the
beginning: it's romantic, thoughtful and inspiring."
*The Lady*
"This glorious book is not only beautiful to look at, it is written
in wonderfully descriptive language. I found my head filled with
ideas as well as thoughts about what gardening is all about."
*Reckless Gardener*
"Gloriously illustrated...displays their touches of genius
everywhere. The book is ostensibly about gardens, or garden
designs, but it is so much more than that. It's about passion,
vision, commitment and entertainment, and it's also a glorious
celebration of England."
*Tatler*
“A record of the grand scale gardens made by these two offbeat
visionaries . . . a compelling read."
*Telegraph*
"Packed with sumptuous images of their quirky, stately and
inventive British gardens which although largely grand are
nonetheless really inspiring."
*A Little Bird*
'With Julian and Isabel there is a descent from the work of William
Kent, the most brilliant and eccentric English designer of the late
Baroque. 'Inside' and 'outside' are imagined as one continuous
landscape of event and surprise: as theatre, in fact.'
*Jasper Conran*
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