Great Gardens of London - Hardcover

Summerley, Victoria; Rittson Thomas, Hugo; Majerus, Marianne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711236119 ISBN 13: 9780711236110

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2015

Synopsis

Great Gardens of London

About this title

About the Author:

VICTORIA SUMMERLEY’is a national newspaper journalist who specialises in writing about gardens and gardening. For the past 13 years she has been executive editor of’The Independent. In 2010, she was the winner of the prestigious Garden Media Guild Journalist of the Year award, and she also writes an award-winning blog. Her garden in London was open under the National Gardens Scheme and was featured on BBC Gardeners' World. After 50 years of living and gardening in London, Victoria now lives in the Cotswolds, but regularly returns to the capital.’Hugo Rittson-Thomas is one of the UK's leading portrait photographers. He started his career in the art world, studying at Central St.Martin's and Goldsmiths University of London, and took part in the landmark exhibition Temple of Diana alongside Tracey Emin at The Blue Gallery in 1999. In 2012 he was privately commissioned to photograph the Cotswolds gardens of Eyford House, Corwill Manor and Asthall Manor and has worked alongside acclaimed garden photographer Andrew Lawson.MARIANNE MAJERUS is a prestigious and prolific international photographer of gardens and winner of the Garden Media Guild Features Photographer of the Year Award 2013 as well as the GMG Photographer of the Year 2010. A contributor and sole photographer of many gardening books, her new title Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated was a best-seller in 2014. Marianne lives and has a studio in London.

Review:

“...this substantial book is laden with photographs, but where it excels is in the author’s skill at weaving together history, horticulture and a disparate array of interesting facts. ...the reader is led on a journey which has gardens at its heart, but actually offers more.”

Many garden lovers make pilgrimages to England to see some of the world's most famous gardens. But those of London are less well known, and some are virtually unknowable, except in the pages of’Great Gardens of London.

"...this substantial book is laden with photographs, but where it excels is in the author's skill at weaving together history, horticulture and a disparate array of interesting facts. ...the reader is led on a journey which has gardens at its heart, but actually offers more."

Many garden lovers make pilgrimages to England to see some of the world’s most famous gardens. But those of London are less well known, and some are virtually unknowable, except in the pages of’Great Gardens of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0711236119
• ISBN 13: 9780711236110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208