Penelope Hobhouse Garden Designer

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Penelope hobhouse garden designer. Contents 1 early life. For fourteen years until 1993 with her husband professor john malins she was in charge of the national trust gardens at tintinhull house in somerset. Jul 22 2017 explore reg wickings s board penelope hobhouse followed by 435 people on pinterest.

Garden designer plantswoman and author penelope hobhouse has been presented with the society of garden designers sgd lifetime achievement award 2020. Her reputation and vast experience as a designer of successful gardens bring entreaties to transform sites as far apart as california and maine the scottish isles and italy here in more than twenty garden designs hobhouse places her professional knowledge as a designer plantswoman an. Penelope hobhouse is a garden writer garden designer garden historian lecturer and gardener.

Penelope hobhouse s current garden which she laid out in her eighties is an exuberant mix of cottage style planting with nepeta racemosa walker s low lining the path to her house and the tall white spikes of chamaenerion angustifolium album adding light. All over the world garden owners clamor for consultations with penelope hobhouse. See more ideas about garden design garden dream garden.

See more ideas about penelope garden garden design. When i came here at 83 i knew this was going to be my last garden so i decided to do it just for me. Recently she has returned to replant the lower garden and the parkland.

Penelope hobhouse who lived at hadspen until 1979 restored and enlarged the earlier garden and made her work there the subject of her first book the country gardener. Penelope hobhouse was named winner of the prestigious sgd lifetime achievement award at the annual sgd awards ceremony last friday.