Seeing gardening as a serious and even outrageous art form has placed Anne Wareham well outside of what usually passes for discussion of gardens. Impatient with received ideas, eager to provoke,
The Bad-Tempered Gardener is the story of her development as a thinking gardener and the creation with her husband, Charles Hawes, of their acclaimed garden in the Welsh borders, the Veddw.
From the strange (plant obsessives, a bizarre debut as a television presenter) to the everyday (deadheading, sharing a garden), with frequent paeans to favourite plants and thoughtful pieces on show gardens and status, this is an intelligent, pugnacious and engaging book. It also unflinchingly conveys the challenges, the hard work, triumphs and failures behind the creation and development of a substantial contemporary garden.
Table des matières
Contents
Introduction
The beginnings
Influences
The history of the site
Hellebores
Plant obsessives
The front garden
Autumn sunshine
Truth and the garden world
The meadow
Bulbs
The crescent border
Gardens and meaning
Appearing on telly
Persicaria campanulata
Buying plants
The wild garden
Experts
Hostas
The terrace the the pool
Tulips
I hate gardening
Objects
The veg plot
The tour
Snowdrops and ambivalence
The reflecting pool
Status
Are gardens for gardeners?
Roses and taste
Water maintenance
Erigeron karvinskianus ‘Profusion’
Show gardens
The conservatory
Deadheading
Grasses
Planting style
Succulents
Scent
Hydrangeas
Sharing a garden
The woods
Visitors
New media
Exile and belonging
A propos de l’auteur
Charles Hawes' photographs of gardens regularly appear in the best gardening magazines. He has won several prizes in the annual RHS open photography competition, and was an exhibiting finalist in the 2008 International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition. He supplied all the photographs in Stephen Anderton's recent book Discovering Welsh Gardens, shortlisted for a 2009 Garden Media Guild award.
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