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A Year in the Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens

Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Rachel Warne, Fergus Garrett and Beth Chatto
128 pages, 120 colour photos
A Year in the Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens
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  • A Year in the Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens ISBN: 9780711232143 Hardback Apr 2012 Out of Print #197646
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Beth Chatto has been among the most influential British gardeners of the second half of the twentieth century. When she started to make her garden on an overgrown area of wasteland in Essex in 1960 she was faced with a range of widely differing conditions, from drought-stricken gravel through woodland to dense, silty bog. Applying the principles of ecological gardening, she set about finding plants that would suit these very different, awkward situations. The gardens she made--the Mediterranean garden on the sunny slopes, the shady woodland garden, the damp garden for water-loving plants, the drier than dry gravel garden--have become legendary. In this book photographer Rachel Warne has traced all these different gardens through the course of a year.

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Rachel Warne was the International Garden Photographer of the Year - Portfolio and RPS gold medal winner in 2010. Her work has appeared in magazines including "Gardens Illustrated", "Country Living", "House and Garden", "Home and Garden", "Garden Life" and "The English Garden". This is her first book. She lives in London.

Beth Chatto (born 27/06/1923) is a plantswomen, gardener and writer. Whilst having no formal horticultural training, she was inspired by her parents' enthusiastic gardening, her husband's lifelong study of natural associations of plants, and friendship with the great plantsman and artist Sir Cedric Morris. The Beth Chatto Gardens began at Elmstead Market, Essex in 1960. By applying the principles of ecological gardening, she transformed an overgrown area of wasteland into informal gardens that harmonise with the surrounding countryside. Complementing the gardens is a large plant nursery producing a wide range of unusual plants, which attracts thousands of visitors each year. She has won ten Gold Medals the Chelsea Flower Show and was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour (1987), the Lawrence Memorial Medal and an honorary doctorate from Essex University.

She is the author of many books including her classics "The Dry Garden" (1978) and "The Damp Garden" (revised 2004) as well as "Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden" (2000) and "Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden" (2002). An engaging exchange of letters with Christopher Lloyd, "Dear Friend and Gardener", was published in 1998. In 2002 she was awarded the OBE for her services to horticulture. A keen advocate of organic gardening, she has lectured worldwide. She lives in Colchester in Essex.

Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener at Great Dixter, first worked at the Beth Chatto Gardens as a student, over twenty years ago, and has remained a close friend of Beth's ever since.

Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Rachel Warne, Fergus Garrett and Beth Chatto
128 pages, 120 colour photos
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