Rosemary Verey: The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener
Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. She was a natural teacher, encouraging Americans to believe that they were fully capable of creating beautiful gardens in a native vernacular. She also re-introduced the English to their own gardening traditions. Drawing from garden history and its literature, she developed a language of classical formal design, embellished with her exuberant planting style. This is Rosemary Verey's story and the lessons she taught. In her life as in her work, she was the very personification of the English garden style.
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Barbara Paul Robinson worked as a gardener for Rosemary Verey at Barnsley House and later wrote the Godine title, Rosemary Verey: The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener. Ms. Robinson and her husband created their own gardens at Brush Hill in northwestern Connecticut, that have been featured in articles, books, and on television.
Praise for Rosemary Verey: The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener
"The definitive book on the great gardener and designer. Meticulously researched and invigorated by the author's own personal recollections, Barbara Paul Robinson has captured the essence of Rosemary Verey's genius for creating gardens and also her great capacity for friendship. Rosemary's influence on twentieth-century garden style remains her legacy to designers all over the world."--Penelope Hobhouse "Truly great gardeners deserve a fine garden writer as a biographer. . . . Rosemary Verey, the former doyenne of twentieth-century English garden design, has found the ideal one in Barbara Paul Robinson. . . . Robinson is able to provide in-depth insight into her subject's character and personality as well as her genius for blending highly original landscape composition with great horticultural craft."--Elizabeth Barlow RogersPraise for Rosemary Verey: The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener
"The definitive book on the great gardener and designer. Meticulously researched and invigorated by the author's own personal recollections, Barbara Paul Robinson has captured the essence of Rosemary Verey's genius for creating gardens and also her great capacity for friendship. Rosemary's influence on twentieth-century garden style remains her legacy to designers all over the world."-Penelope Hobhouse "Truly great gardeners deserve a fine garden writer as a biographer. . . . Rosemary Verey, the former doyenne of twentieth-century English garden design, has found the ideal one in Barbara Paul Robinson. . . . Robinson is able to provide in-depth insight into her subject's character and personality as well as her genius for blending highly original landscape composition with great horticultural craft."-Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
