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“Gardens for Small Country Houses” is a wonderful guide to English country gardens by Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver. It offers useful information and guidance on designing and creating beautiful country gardens with reference to real examples, complete with descriptions, photographs, ground plans, and diagrams. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in traditional English country gardening, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Millmead, Bramley, Surrey”, “Two Gardens in Forest Clearings”, “A Garden in Berkshire”, “Westbrook, Godalming”, “A Garden in West Surrey”, “Highmount, Guildford”, “The Treatment of Small Sites”, “On Hillside Garden”, “Steps and Stairways”, “Balustrades and Walls”, “Climbing and Other Plants”, etc. Gertrude Jekyll (1843 – 1932) was a British garden designer, horticulturist, photographer, craftswoman, artist, and writer. She is responsible for designing and creating over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, as well as writing more than 1,000 articles for related magazines. She is credited with having had a significant influence on gardening by both British and American enthusiasts. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	22 mars 2021
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781528768092
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	11 Mo

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GARDENS FOR SMALL
COUNTRY HOUSES
BY
G ERTRUDE J EKYLL L AWRENCE W EAVER
FOURTH EDITION .
Copyright 2018 Read Books Ltd.
This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
A Short History of Gardening
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture more broadly. In most domestic gardens, there are two main sets of plants; ornamental plants , grown for their flowers, foliage or overall appearance - and useful plants such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits and herbs, grown for consumption or other uses. For many people, gardening is an incredibly relaxing and rewarding pastime, ranging from caring for large fruit orchards to residential yards including lawns, foundation plantings or flora in simple containers. Gardening is separated from farming or forestry more broadly in that it tends to be much more labour-intensive; involving active participation in the growing of plants.
Home-gardening has an incredibly long history, rooted in the forest gardening practices of prehistoric times. In the gradual process of families improving their immediate environment, useful tree and vine species were identified, protected and improved whilst undesirable species were eliminated. Eventually foreign species were also selected and incorporated into the gardens. It was only after the emergence of the first civilisations that wealthy individuals began to create gardens for aesthetic purposes. Egyptian tomb paintings from around 1500 BC provide some of the earliest physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design; depicting lotus ponds surrounded by symmetrical rows of acacias and palms. A notable example of an ancient ornamental garden was the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Ancient Rome had dozens of great gardens, and Roman estates tended to be laid out with hedges and vines and contained a wide variety of flowers - acanthus, cornflowers, crocus, cyclamen, hyacinth, iris, ivy, lavender, lilies, myrtle, narcissus, poppy, rosemary and violets as well as statues and sculptures. Flower beds were also popular in the courtyards of rich Romans. The Middle Ages represented a period of decline for gardens with aesthetic purposes however. After the fall of Rome gardening was done with the purpose of growing medicinal herbs and/or decorating church altars. It was mostly monasteries that carried on the tradition of garden design and horticultural techniques during the medieval period in Europe. By the late thirteenth century, rich Europeans began to grow gardens for leisure as well as for medicinal herbs and vegetables. They generally surrounded them with walls - hence, the walled garden.
These gardens advanced by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into symmetrical, proportioned and balanced designs with a more classical appearance. Gardens in the renaissance were adorned with sculptures (in a nod to Roman heritage), topiary and fountains. These fountains often contained water jokes - hidden cascades which suddenly soaked visitors. The most famous fountains of this kind were found in the Villa d Este (1550-1572) at Tivoli near Rome. By the late seventeenth century, European gardeners had started planting new flowers such as tulips, marigolds and sunflowers.
These highly complex designs, largely created by the aristocracy slowly gave way to the individual gardener however - and this is where this book comes in! Cottage Gardens first emerged during the Elizabethan times, originally created by poorer workers to provide themselves with food and herbs, with flowers planted amongst them for decoration. Farm workers were generally provided with cottages set in a small garden-about an acre-where they could grow food, keep pigs, chickens and often bees; the latter necessitating the planting of decorative pollen flora. By Elizabethan times there was more prosperity, and thus more room to grow flowers. Most of the early cottage garden flowers would have had practical uses though -violets were spread on the floor (for their pleasant scent and keeping out vermin); calendulas and primroses were both attractive and used in cooking. Others, such as sweet william and hollyhocks were grown entirely for their beauty.
Here lies the roots of today s home-gardener; further influenced by the new style in eighteenth century England which replaced the more formal, symmetrical Garden la fran aise . Such gardens, close to works of art, were often inspired by paintings in the classical style of landscapes by Claude Lorraine and Nicolas Poussin. The work of Lancelot Capability Brown, described as England s greatest gardener was particularly influential. We hope that the reader is inspired by this book, and the long and varied history of gardening itself, to experiment with some home-gardening of their own. Enjoy.
PREFACE
TO THE
FOURTH EDITION.

A FTER the publication of the first and second editions of this book kindly readers indicated many points on which they thought our advice to the makers of gardens could usefully be expanded, and we gladly met their wishes. Perhaps we may, without offence, be pleased that during the currency of the third edition few such suggestions came to us. So it happens that this fourth edition is little different from the third; but since the latter appeared the times have changed greatly. Without seeking to fill the r le of the gloomy prophet, we cannot escape the belief that the changes in social life and habit, which are the mark of our economic troubles, are striking at the maintenance of great gardens, as of great houses, in this pleasant land. But if those who have built up, kept, and loved so well their spacious gardens must needs be content with smaller houses, and if, as seems likely, the wider distribution of wealth will lead to-morrow to the creation of many more small country houses, the art of making gardens for such houses will increase in importance. If this prove true, we hope our work will still achieve some measure of usefulness, and help us, in Dr. Johnson s phrase, to keep our friendship in repair with many unknown and too appreciative readers.
G. J.
L. W.

JUNE BORDERS OF LUPIN AND IRIS IN THE GARDEN AT MUNSTEAD WOOD.
CONTENTS
I NTRODUCTION.
Relation of garden to house. Importance of preserving or creating character. Hillside Gardens. Owlpen Manor and Markyate Cell. Misuse of conifers. Beauty of native evergreens. Various sites. Yew and other hedges. Topiary work in small gardens. Walls. Treillage. Quiet entrances. Planting at house-foot
C HAPTER I.-M ILLMEAD , B RAMLEY , S URREY .
Site of ancient buildings. Shapeless ground. Terraced in successive levels. Steps and dry-walling. Summer-houses
C HAPTER II.-T WO G ARDENS IN F OREST C LEARINGS .
Woodgate, Four Oaks. Virgin woodland. Emerson and Reginald Blomfield on design. High Coxlease, Lyndhurst. Rock and water
C HAPTER III.-A G ARDEN IN B ERKSHIRE .
Roses grown as Fountains. Brick dry-walling. Stone-edged water garden. Refined detail and ornaments
C HAPTER IV.-W ESTBROOK , G ODALMING .
Situation. Special compartments. Careful planting scheme. Winter garden. Covered seats. Flower border facing north
C HAPTER V.-A G ARDEN IN W EST S URREY .
Poor soil. No definite plan. Paved court with tank and steps. Colour in flower borders. Woodland paths. Thunder-house
C HAPTER VI.-H IGHMOUNT , G UILDFORD .
Site and views. Excavation of chalk. Rose garden. Planted Walls. Garden-houses. Colour schemes. Framing the views
C HAPTER VII.-T HE T REATMENT OF S MALL S ITES .
Some gardens by Mr. Inigo Triggs. The value of historical examples. Paved parterres. The use of treillage. A town garden by Sir E. Lutyens. A seaside garden by Mr. Mallows. Planting scheme by Mr. H. Avray Tipping. Various typical examples
C HAPTER VIII.-O N H ILLSIDE G ARDENS .
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on terraces. Stairways. Terraced gardens. Inexpensive materials. Various examples
C HAPTER IX.-S TEPS AND S TAIRWAYS .
Approach steps from road. Stairways in children s dramas. Stepped treatment for gentle slopes. Straight and curved stairs. Terrace steps. Unformal stairs
C HAPTER X.-B ALUSTRADES AND W ALLS .
The design of balusters. The imitation of historical examples. Walls and parapets of open brickwork. Walls surmounted by beams. A coronal garden. Serpentine walls. Building in concrete
C HAPTER XI.-C LIMBING AND O THER P LANTS ON W ALLS AND H OUSES .
Misuse of ivy. Of ampelopsis. Of wistaria. Various climbers. Shrubs trained to walls
C HAPTER XII.-R ETAINING W ALLS AND T HEIR P LANTING .
Hillside sites. Turf banks. Dry walling. Grouping in planted dry walls in sun and shade. Construction. Importance of ramming. Steps
C HAPTER XIII.-Y EW AND O THER H EDGES .
Yew hedges in ancient gardens. In modern use. Other trees for hedges. Box. Holly. Privet. Laurel. Beech. Hornbeam. Thorough planting. Topiary work
C HAPTER XIV.-W ATER IN THE F ORMAL G ARDEN .
The soul of gardens. Reflections. Pools and their water-levels. Varied shapes. Lily ponds and their depth. Separate pool gardens. Water parterres. Fountains and their sculpture. Leadwork. Well-heads. Pumps
C HAPTER XV.-M ETHODS OF P AVING .
Rectangular jointing. Random jointing. Local methods. Pitched paving. Paving of shingle. Of brick and tile
C HAPTER XVI.-T HE P ERGOLA .
Italian pergolas. English, of oak and of larch poles. With stone, brick and tile piers. Proportions. Garlands on chains. Suitable plants. Covered alleys. Treillage
C HAPTER XVII.-G ATES AND G ATEWAYS .
Entrance stairways. Gates to forecourts. Carriage gates. Notes on eighteenth century smiths. Gateways and vistas. In walled gardens. Wooden gates
C HAPTER XVIII.-G ARDEN- H OUSES .
The Place of summer-