To mark World Book Day on 7th March 2019, we asked garden designer Paul Hervey-Brookes to pick his top five books about gardening and garden design.
Paul’s recommended gardening books:
Paul is an award-winning landscape and garden designer, including, this year, ‘Viking Cruises: The Art of Viking garden’ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, taking inspiration from the artwork on board Viking’s newest ocean ship, including a painting by Norwegian impressionist Jakob Wedemann and Anette Krogstad ceramics. The result is a multi-layered wetland garden, reminiscent of a water meadow with multi-stemmed birches and winding streams.
1. ‘Education of a Gardener’ by Russell Page:
“My grandparents had a first edition of this seminal book which I read as a teenager and refer to constantly. I did later liberate their copy to my own home!”
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2. ‘We Made a Garden’ by Margery Fish:
“My late partner and I discovered this 1950’s classic together in Hay-on-Wye and both enjoyed reading about Margery and husband, seeing our own plant battles in their story.”
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3.’The Concise Townscape’ by Gordon Cullen:
“This book takes me back to long agonising hours of hypothetical town and urban planning at a student landscape architect, but its lessons can be applied at any scale!”
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4. ‘Honey from a Weed’ by Patience Gray:
“Technically not a gardening book but a cook book-cum-autobiography set in Crete and Greece. This book depicts a wild landscape I find endlessly captivating and a woman who makes you believe in your dreams.”
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5. ‘The Planetary Garden and Other Writings’ by Gilles Clement:
“Clement is one fo the few landscape designers or gardeners I am star struck over. I have heard him speak once and it left a profound imprint on my thinking – this book are those words in a written form.”
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Find out more about Paul’s The Art of Viking Garden here, or have a look at Paul’s website: paulherveybrookes.com.
Get inspired by the top 5 gardening book recommendations of other professionals in the industry here.
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