Wallinger: Gertrude Jekyll's Lost Garden

This book is about a labour of love. In 1983 Rosamund Wallinger and her husband bought the Manor House at Upton Grey in Hampshire, little realising that the garden had been designed by Gertrude Jekyll. In the past sixteen years Rosamund Wallinger has restored the garden to its former glory.

This is a gardening book with a difference. In the photographs and the text the author describes her painstaking research to recover the original plans and to bring them to fruition. She includes many quotations from Jekyll herself. Upton Grey was hailed by Geoff Hamilton as the paradise garden and so it looks. The before and after photographs bear witness to Wallinger's great achievement. Anyone thinking of buying a large house in the country, having children (and lots of animals), as well as restoring a great garden, should read the book with close attention - as Wallinger describes her challenges as well as her triumphs. Though somewhat overwritten, this is an inspirational book .

SM April 2000
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215pp colour and black and white photographs £25.00
ISBN 1 870673 35 2
Published by Garden Art Press www.antique~acc.com
Published 2000

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