Sarah Raven
Autore di Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden
Sull'Autore
Sarah Raven runs her own gardening school, 'The Cutting Garden', at Perch Hill in Sussex. She also has her own seed catalogue of plants. Sarah writes for the gardening section of the Daily Telegraph, where she has a column, 'Home Grown', which focuses on growing your own organic vegetables, fruits mostra altro and herbs. She also writes for Sainsbury's Magazine, sharing, with the florist Paula Pryke, a column on growing and arranging cut flowers Jonathan Buckley has photographed at Perch Hill throughout the year He specializes in garden and plant photography and is widely published in The Garden, BBC Gardens Illustrated, BBC Gardeners' World, Sainsbury's Magazine, the Telegraph and American Horticulture mostra meno
Opere di Sarah Raven
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Raven, Sarah
- Data di nascita
- 1963
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Sussex, England, UK
Sissinghurst, Kent, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Edinburgh (History)
University of London - Attività lavorative
- television presenter
writer
gardener - Relazioni
- Raven, John Earle (father)
Nicolson, Adam (husband)
Raven, Charles E. (grandfather)
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Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation… di Vita Sackville-West
I seem to be obsessed with this garden, for no real reason. In any case, I losed this book -- not only as a fascinating look at the history of the building of the garden, and Vita Sackville-West's relationship to it, but as a particularly useful gardening resource. I wasn't expecting so much of the book to be excerpts from her own writing, and I really enjoyed that a lot. Sensitively written and very engaging. I wanted even more pictures, of course, but it was altogether well done.
Sissinghurst is the garden created by Vita Sackville-West and her husband, Harold Nicholson. They bought a Tudor era property that was nearly in ruins (it has a moat! And a tower!), fixed up the buildings without much modernization, and then, with Harold laying out the hardscape and Vita dealing with the plants themselves, made a garden that became very famous. Sissinghurst is the home of the famous (among gardeners) White Garden. Vita orchestrated a very lush garden, packed with flowers- especially scented flowers- that looked like they had sprung up naturally. Of course, it took a great deal of knowledge –and a couple of full time gardeners- to keep this looking natural.
150,000 people a year visit Sissinghurst to this day. While it has had changes- some plants didn’t do well, some just got old- the bones and spirit of the garden Vita created remain in place. Sarah Raven is a garden writer who has had the privilege of living at Sissinghurst for a while- she is married to Vita’s grandson. She considers herself the co-author of this book; she has mined Vita’s prodigious writings and included passages from them in the text. With this, we can see what Vita was trying to achieve in the garden and it’s a very interesting look inside. The book includes many black and white photos of the garden, inside the buildings, and Vita and her family; a few modern day color photos are also included. Very interesting for anyone interested in garden design from the viewpoint of living intimately with the garden 365 days a year.… (altro)
150,000 people a year visit Sissinghurst to this day. While it has had changes- some plants didn’t do well, some just got old- the bones and spirit of the garden Vita created remain in place. Sarah Raven is a garden writer who has had the privilege of living at Sissinghurst for a while- she is married to Vita’s grandson. She considers herself the co-author of this book; she has mined Vita’s prodigious writings and included passages from them in the text. With this, we can see what Vita was trying to achieve in the garden and it’s a very interesting look inside. The book includes many black and white photos of the garden, inside the buildings, and Vita and her family; a few modern day color photos are also included. Very interesting for anyone interested in garden design from the viewpoint of living intimately with the garden 365 days a year.… (altro)
I really enjoyed this book and was sorry when it came to an end. The blend between the writings of Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven are seamless. This is a proper gardener's book with lots of details about the actual plants used by Vita and others. The pictures are small and quite informal which is nice and helps to give the impression of the garden as a personal space but also means that it definitely not a coffee table book. A serious book but a highly enjoyable one for those who are keen gardeners.… (altro)
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Bowerbirds-Library | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 19, 2014 |
Bowerbirds-Library | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 19, 2014 | 
This is a great book to dip into as you head toward Christmas. Full of craft, gardening and cookery ideas, this works for the winter period, even though it is aimed at Christmas-time. Instructions are clear and there are plenty of photo illustrations too.
I'm looking forward to trying many of the ideas.
I'm looking forward to trying many of the ideas.
1 floriferous | Apr 1, 2012 |
floriferous | Apr 1, 2012 | Premi e riconoscimenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 44
- Lingue
- 3
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