This visionary planting guide features an A-Z of more than 1,000 great garden plants. Each plant is photographed in glorious partnership with one, two or three ideal companions, creating more than 4,000 of the most imaginative and visually effective combinations possible. With a practical introduction, analyses of what makes a successful combination, the author goes on to show how to recreate combinations shown and invent new combinations. With chapters on bulbs, climbers, perennials, shrubs, trees, roses, and annuals, this book has become the essential reference book for all those who wish to combine plants according to colour, shape, texture, and form in every corner of their gardens.
A stylish sourcebook of 100 modern and contemporary gardens of all styles from
around the world. Dream Gardens features the work of such renowned designers
as Terence Conran, Penelope Hobhouse, Piet Oudolf and Dan Pearson and is
profusely illustrated, and written in a lively and informative style.
`At the top of the heap of gardening glitterati, Andrew Lawson has produced a
book that combines all his talents: it gives you this Renaissance man as
painter, photographer, writer and gardener . . . You need this book.' -
Country Living
An intricate mix of beauty, utility, wildness, and domestication: that's the quintessential British garden. From its medieval beginnings as a yard for livestock and vegetables, the cottage garden became a retreat for the gentry of the 17th century, and then took on a new dimension of sophistication--though it never relinquished its original functional roots. Take a tour through rows of medicinal herbs, topiary, woodland, meadow flowers, and even exotic species. A lovely and inspiring tribute to a classic form of planting.
In the last decade or so, English towns and villages have been altered almost beyond recognition, and the small specialist shops, run by families who have taken a fierce pride in their traditions of quality and service, are in danger of disappearing forever. A Nation of Shopkeepers is a photographic tribute to these bastions of personal enterprise while they still survive. Bill Evans and Andrew Lawson have combed England to record the strong feeling of period and design that these small shops encompass, whether through style and decoration of their frontages and interiors, their signs, displays of wares or the craftsmanship they offer their customers.
Andrew and Briony Lawson have worked alongside each other for over 45 years.
Their shared creative energy flows in a subtle way. Their mutual passion for
particular beautiful spaces has made a platform for the art of both of them.
This book reflects upon this rarely-found synergy.
This report presents evidence for the discovery of Late Bronze Age hoards in Norfolk before 1950. Three of the finds were made during the eighteenth century, possibly a dozen more during the nineteenth century, and a further three during the first half of the twentieth century. The evidence has been derived from the historic manuscripts, correspondence, drawings and publications of a small group of antiquaries, most of whom lived in the county. Short biographies of the principal antiquaries are presented. A review of the discoveries made after 1950 notes the acceleration in the rate of new finds, especially from the 1970s when the use of metal-detectors became popular in Norfolk. The first report of a new Late Bronze Age hoard site in Norfolk, marking the start of the 'metal-detector era', was made on 16 September 1977, and thereafter the majority of new hoard finds have been made by detectorists. The enhancement of the collection of bronzes from a site at Snettisham (IV), as well as the discoveries of new hoards at Snettisham (V), Hockwold and Great Melton, all with the use of detectors, are described to illustrate the range of objects that may have occurred in the earlier discoveries. Only two of the hoards described were made up of weapons, the others being of mixed composition with variable numbers of tools, weapons and industrial products. Although a few of the individual components may have originated in the Penard, Wilburton or Blackmoor phases of the British Late Bronze Age, and a few in the later Llyn Fawr phase, the majority of the finds are attributed to the Ewart Park phase of the ninth and tenth centuries (cal) BC, some with Carp's Tongue (or Boughton-V?nat) affinities
In seinem unerreichten Standardwerk für Gartenfreunde schildert Andrew Lawson, welche außerordentlichen Effekte mit Farbgestaltung im Garten erzielt werden können. Er erklärt die Grundlagen von Harmonie und Kontrast und liefert Ratschläge für atemberaubende Farbkombinationen, die einen Garten größer oder kleiner wirken lassen können. Alle wichtigen Kombinationen werden anhand detaillierter Pflanzpläne erläutert, dazu gehören auch wichtige Hinweise für die Neuanlage von Gärten. Das Buch enthält illustrierte Pflanzlisten mit über 850 Pflanzen, die nach Farbe und Jahreszeiten geordnet sind, und regt zu kreativem Einsatz von Farbkombinationen im Garten, in Beeten und Pflanzkübeln an.
