Paradise And Plenty. A Rothschild Family Garden

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: PIMPERNEL PRESS
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description:

Publishers Description: The productive garden at Lord Rothschilds private house, Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of the gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques that might otherwise be lost. Under the leadership of the renowned head gardener Sue Dickinson, this garden works on a scale that is now unique, producing, year-round, all the fruit, vegetables and flowers for a country house where entertaining still happens on a grand scale and where everything is done to the highest standards. Paradise and Plenty will open a window on a garden that has always, until now, been kept intensely private, and a world beyond most gardeners dreams. But in this book everything shown is useful as well as beautiful. Gregory Long of the New York Botanic Garden points out in his introduction to the book that as more and more people turn to growing their own, books are needed that show the techniques of dedicated cultivation, as well as the results. Many of the techniques used at Eythrope are old and tried, but have fallen out of use almost everywhere else. In the words of the author, This book has to be how as well as wow.

ISBN: 9781910258125