Discovering Welsh Gardens

Title:

Discovering Welsh Gardens

Author:

Stephen Anderton, Charles Hawes

RRP:

£18.99

ISBN:

9781905582204 

Format:

Paperback, 256 pages

Size:

250 x 250mm

Categories:

Home & Garden, Photography

Publication date:

01/03/2009

 

Fresh, exciting, lively, this is writing about gardens as you've never experienced it before. Gone are the bland descriptions, the clichéd praise, the tedious tour. Instead, opinionated, brave and intelligent pieces raise issues about the gardens concerned and thereby about all gardens of merit, Welsh or not.

Here are 20 of Wales’s most interesting gardens, some unknown to the gardening world, some familiar, and all brilliantly photographed by award-winning photographer Charles Hawes.

Stephen Anderton said, 'This is a chance to see what is happening in Welsh gardens today, be they large or small, contemporary town gardens or delightfully old-fashioned country gardens; to see how they relate, now and in the past, to the rugged landscapes that surround them, and to see what personalities and ambitions have created them'.

Stephen Anderton is known to readers of The Times for his ability to take his readers around a garden in words, to show how it really feels to be there, using his scalpel wit to explore their beauty and what they do well, but never ignoring their problems and their failures.With Anderton as a guide, you will certainly be provoked into visiting the gardens not just to see their glorious planting, but to look afresh at the designs and how they work, and to ask yourself, does this work for me? What would I do here? How would I have made this garden? These are the gardens Stephen and Charles visit in their new book, Discovering Welsh Gardens.

• Aberglasney, Llandeilo
• Bodnant, Conwy Valley
• Bodysgallen, Llandudno
• Bodrhyddan, Rhuddlan
• Cae Hir, Cribyn
• Dewstow, Caerwent
• Dyffryn Fernant, near Fishguard
• Erdigg, Wrexham
• Nant yr Eryd, Boncath
• National Botanic Garden of Wales
• Lower House, Hay on Wye
• Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen
• Plas Cadnant, Menai Bridge
• Plas Newydd, Llanfairpwll
• Plas yn Rhiw, Pwllheli
• Powis Castle, Welshpool
• Ridlers Garden, Swansea
• The Dingle, Welshpool
• Veddw House, Devauden
• Wyndcliffe Court, Chepstow

Stephen Lacey said in The Daily Telegraph, '... a superb production with an opinionated and provocative text (I love his idea of turning the giant lawn at Powis Castle into a grass parterre, evoking the baroque water garden that once stood there) and arresting photography by Charles Hawes, whose own garden, Veddw House, is one of the best contemporary gardens in Wales'.

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Book of delights
David Powell | Daily Post

Writer Stephen Anderton likes to walk into a garden and feel inspired by daring designs, quirkiness and innovation. His enthusiasm comes across in his new book which could grace any coffee table in style.

Wonderful guide
Emma Townshend | The Independent

Anderton's wonderful guide is enough to make me get on the internet and start looking for B&Bs.

A superb production
Stephen Lacey | The Telegraph |

A superb production with an opinionated and provocative text and arresting photography by Charles Hawes.

 

 

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