Description

Pastoral Gardens – Clare Foster and Andrew Montgomery

This weighty tome combines the specialist skills of Clare Foster and Andrew Montgomery. The photography is Andrew’s domain and is captivating throughout. Clare Fostrer is the Garden Editor at House & Garden magazine and prior to that role she was the editor of Gardens Illustrated.

They worked together on a previous title, Winter Gardens, which is now out of print and highly sought.

They state that the pastoral garden is an intriguing contradiction, conjuring up both the untainted landscape and also the manicured expectation of what a garden is. Foster thinks that the impact of climate change is making gardeners reassess what their gardens are and can be, creating plant-filled spaces that are inspired by the untamed landscapes around them and building back bio-diverse habitats that have been lost through previous concepts of a garden.

There are twenty gardens featured in this book; they include the famed garden that Isabel and Julian Bannerman created at Ashington Manor, Jasper Conran’s Dorset garden and a garden that Dan Pearson has created for a client in Devon.

There is also Andrew Salter’s Barn Garden; a garden that stopped me in my tracks when I first saw a picture of it a few years ago, standing as it does slap bang in the middle of a field.

The garden are not all private spaces but include the communal gardens on the Barbican estate in London, and are not confined to the UK, featuring other gardens in Spain and Morocco.

Hardback. 480 pages.

Measurements:

25.8cm x 31.3cm x 4.6cm

Please note that this product is currently available on back order. We are expecting to receive a new delivery of books this forthcoming week – week commencing December 16th – an orders that we receive for this book will be sent via our Express service as soon as they are with us.