Penelope Hobhouse Garden Designs
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Penelope hobhouse garden designs. 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. Colour in your garden plants in garden history penelope hobhouse on gardening penelope hobhouse s garden designs and penelope hobhouse s natural planting. In 1996 penelope hobhouse hosted the art and practice of gardening with perennial productions for house.
See more ideas about garden design garden dream garden. Many of the designs are for urban sites small town gardens in london and surrey a courtyard garden in paris and a herb garden in new york. This book presents.
All over the world garden owners clamor for consultations with penelope hobhouse. Recently she has returned to replant the lower garden and the parkland. Penelope hobhouse was born in northern ireland in 1929 cambridge honours degree economics 1951 ma her publications include.
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 arrived at her present home in pitcombe near bruton somerset aged 84 and with half a garden in tow. Could she find room for the.
Penelope hobhouse s garden designs. She lived at hadspen house and then tintinhull. 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 s name is associated with some of the great british country gardens. Jul 22 2017 explore reg wickings s board penelope hobhouse followed by 435 people on pinterest. Here in designs for more than 20 gardens penelope hobhouse offers her knowledge as a designer plantswoman and colourist seeking to help readers to create their own successful gardens.