A Garden Well Placed

The Story of Helmingham and Other Gardens

A Garden Well Placed
Fergus Garrett, Xa Tollemache
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Hardback
h270 x 210mm - 176pg
12 May 2022 UK
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9781910258804
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Xa Tollemache started her gardening life when she moved into Helmingham Hall in Suffolk in 1975, as a young wife and mother. She spent the next twenty years learning and consequently developing and improving the gardens. It was Helmingham, she always insists, that taught her how to garden - to such effect that in 1996 she was in a position to start her garden design practice. Xa Tollemache describes this book, her first, as ' a story book, the tale of the love story between me and the garden at Helmingham' . It is also a record of her career as a garden designer, exemplified by eleven other gardens, large and small, on which she has worked her design magic: her first Chelsea Flower Show garden ("I was described as ' just an amateur' , which was true - but I did get a Gold Medal!"); and gardens in Dunbeath, Caithness; Castle Hill, Devon; Cholmondley, Cheshire; Bighton, Hampshire; Wilton, Wiltshire; Aldeburgh, Suffolk; Bell House, Suffolk; Stone House, Suffolk; RHS Hyde Hall, Essex - and the garden at her new home, Framsden Hall in Suffolk.
"Xa Tollemache is an innately sensitive garden designer. . . She reads the scene so beautifully well, embracing the qualities of history, landscape, architecture and people, within her work. " -- Fergus Garrett
Xa Tollemache learned how to garden, and how to design gardens, at her new home, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk. She set up her garden design practice in 1996, and one of the very first gardens she designed as a professional was the Evening Standard garden for the 1997 Chelsea Flower Show - for which she won a Gold Medal. She has since designed two more medal-winning gardens for Chelsea, as well as gardens all over the UK and in Europe and the US. She is currently a Member of the Council of the RHS, Chair of the Gardens Committee, a Member of the Horticulture Board and an RHS Judge. Fergus Garrett joined Great Dixter as head gardener in 1992. He is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, and also combines his full-time, hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS in 2015 and in 2019, the coveted RHS Victoria Medal of Honour.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781910258804
Published: 12 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pimpernel Press
Publisher: Pimpernel Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 270mm
Width: 210mm
Pages: 176

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