ALL OVER THE WORLD, garden owners clamour to consult Penelope Hobhouse. Her reputation as a designer, plantswoman and colourist is beyond compare. Here, in twenty- three garden designs, Penelope Hobhouse and her associate Simon Johnson place their professional knowledge and ability to create successful gardens in the hands of all gardeners.
Many of the designs are for urban sites - town gardens in London and Hamburg, a courtyard garden in Paris and a herb garden in New York City. There are small country gardens in Somerset and Gloucestershire, a windswept Scottish island garden, planted cliff terraces, a flower-clad pergola and a rural vegetable garden. More ambitious schemes include a garden for H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Penelope Hobhouse’s own garden, specifically designed for low maintenance.
PENELOPE HOBHOUSE’S GARDEN DESIGNS includes
• Professional scale drawings and planting plans for a wide range of sites, climates and purposes
• Specially commissioned colour photographs of the gardens, with close-ups of companion plantings
• Design solutions and planting schemes for difficult sites
• Colour-themed planting plans for sunny and shady flower beds
• Down-to-earth practical advice on planning for low maintenance
This guide is a distillation of Penelope Hobhouse’s wide experience of garden design, combining the inspirational with the practical, and showing the reader how to follow in the footsteps of gardening’s brightest star.