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In this exchange of personal letters two of Britain's leading gardeners - Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto - share their successes and failures, and learn from each other's experiences in their two very different gardens.
- Sales Rank: #1442037 in Books
- Published on: 2013-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.25" w x 6.25" l, 2.20 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Review
"Any exchange between two of the world's greatest gardeners is bound to be enlightening, and this book of letters between Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd is almost encyclopedic in its scope. Fortunately for readers, the collected horticultural wisdom (made much more useful by a comprehensive index) is leavened by the humanity of the letter writers." - Country Gardens Magazine
About the Author
BETH CHATTO (born 27/06/1923) is a plantswomen, gardener and writer. Whilst having no formal horticultural training, she was inspired by her parents' enthusiastic gardening, her husband's lifelong study of natural associations of plants, and friendship with the great plantsman and artist Sir Cedric Morris.
The Beth Chatto Gardens began at Elmstead Market, Essex in 1960. By applying the principles of ecological gardening, she transformed an overgrown area of wasteland into informal gardens that harmonise with the surrounding countryside. Complementing the gardens is a large plant nursery producing a wide range of unusual plants, which attracts thousands of visitors each year.
She has won ten Gold Medals the Chelsea Flower Show and was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour (1987), the Lawrence Memorial Medal and an honorary doctorate from Essex University.
She is the author of many books including her classics The Dry Garden (1978) and The Damp Garden (revised 2004) as well as Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden (2000) and Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden (2002). An engaging exchange of letters with Christopher Lloyd, Dear Friend and Gardener, was published in 1998.
In 2002 she was awarded the OBE for her services to horticulture. A keen advocate of organic gardening, she has lectured worldwide.
She lives in Colchester in Essex.
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD OBE was among the best informed, liveliest, most worthwhile gardening writers of our time and the author of a host of classics. He spent years lovingly developing and refining his celebrated gardens at Great Dixter in Sussex. Throughout his career he was unparalleled in gardening journalism, writing for many publications from COUNTRY LIFE to the GUARDIAN. In 1979 the Royal Horticultural Society conferred on him its highest honour, the VICTORIA MEDAL OF HONOUR. He received the OBE for services to horticulture in 2000, and he died in 2006.
Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter, first worked at the Beth Chatto Gardens as a student, over twenty years ago, and has remained a close friend of Beth's ever since.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
First-rate writers, who happen to garden
By Gail M. Ullman
Two old friends, who also happen to be two of England's best known gardeners--correspond for two years in this absorbing and heart-warming book. The conversation was intended to be about their respective gardens and nurseries, and the reader who loves gardens will be richly rewarded. But the correspondence ranges much further--to music, food, family, friends, colleagues, and, inevitably , the weather. Beth Chatto's luminous intelligence and courageous openness set off the forthright and irrepressible Christopher Lloyd. This is a book about love, life, and plants, and a real winner.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
“Personal Letters of Two Great Gardeners”
By The Garden Interior
Now comes this wonderful book by two of our era’s most brilliant and accomplished gardeners. Beth Chatto built up the now celebrated Beth Chatto Gardens almost from nothing, just a wildly overgrown apple orchard at Elmstead Market in Essex. She holds the prestigious Victoria Medal of Honour from the Royal Horticultural Society (as does Lloyd) and received an OBE in 2002. She is one of the great stars of horticulture and has been featured in countless books and broadcasts, having written several books herself. Christopher Lloyd (invariably “Christo” to all who knew him) inherited and gardened at the world-famous home of Great Dixter in East Sussex. He was awarded the OBE in 2000. Lloyd was famous for his daring plant and color combinations; pairings that would seem insane to a less subtle gardener he made successful because of his superb plantsmanship and his great skill and daring. Photos of the gardens at Great Dixter are pored over by gardeners around the world, with admiration and envy, for their great originality.
Structurally, the book consists of about 300 pages of the familiar and never boring letters between these two old friends and master gardeners, custodians of two of England’s – and the world’s – greatest, most innovative and consistently interesting gardens. The letters cover the years 1996 and 1997, and this book is a new edition of the original one that was published in 1998. Like many garden books, and the gardening year itself, this book begins in January, with the correspondents looking closely into their gardens for signs of life and color: for spring, in a word. It is an intimate, wide-ranging portrait of two celebrated experts at the height of their craft and their letters are shot through with gardening insights and advice, gossip about other great gardeners, strong prejudices for and against plants of various kinds, grumbles about the weather and their nagging health issues, and so on.
Their affection, commitment, intelligence and endurance shine winningly through on every page. The inside covers feature plans of both of the famous gardens, his in the front and hers in the back, and two sections of a scant eight pages of color photos each make you wish for more, but both gardens have been extensively photographed for print and broadcast, and the verbal pictures included here are themselves extremely vivid and beautiful. A word of advice: keep Google Images or Wikipedia on hand while reading this book. Lloyd and Chatto are such immensely experienced plantsmen that they throw around plant names by the hundreds, and many are not going to be familiar to even very serious gardeners. It is a wonderful learning opportunity and you get so much more out of the discussion if you can see the qualities of the plants they are discussing.
Here are just a few highlights of the lively exchanges:
• A spat between the two over the use of chemicals in the garden – she is a nearly absolute prohibitionist, he is not.
• He visits gardening legend Rosemary Verey and she takes him to the Prince of Wales’ world-famous garden at Highgrove.
• About to receive an honorary doctorate from an English university, he has a new suit made for himself, near the end of his life, and jokingly calls it “my terminal suit”.
• Both echo every gardener’s lament that life is too short to learn the complicated craft of gardening: “We say ourselves that one lifetime is not half enough.”
• Lloyd’s interesting criticisms of Sissinghurst, having visited the world-famous garden after a long absence.
• Lovely and lively bird-watching and butterfly spotting, and many lively visits to the opera at Glyndbourne.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
And the food! These are gardeners who like to grow their own food and eat it with consummate relish. They are constantly talking about all the fresh vegetables they picked and how they prepared it for the table or the freezer, and how delicious it all was. Both write with an appealing zest for life and living, things that every gardener shares but in ways that few gardeners can match for experience and zeal. Remember how prominent writers of a generation or more ago (rarely now) would always publish their extensive correspondence, usually posthumously? Well, this is like that, only from the gardening point of view, and only the two of them are involved. Their letters are at turns opinionated, intelligent, funny, crotchety, gossipy, wistful and informative; but they are always interesting. This book provides a rare and delightful insight into two wonderful and complex personalities, and delivers in the end an irresistible compendium of their views on gardening and life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful writing.
By Honoria
A pleasure to read this ongoing conversation between two of my favourite gardeners. Plenty of snippets of useful gardening advice along with humour, debate, and good natured banter.
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