Book ID: 28765
HOBHOUSE, Penelope
Private Gardens of England. 1986. 65 colour plates. 160 black & white photographs. 223 p. 4to. Cloth.
Thirty-three of England's finest private gardens are celebrated here inwords and pictures. Old and new, large and small, they are all livinggardens, not monuments to the styles of former ages; their owners arefree to experiment, to take risks, and to impress upon them their ownindividual stamp. That each and every one of them is so different is atestimony to the English gardening genius.