The Walled Garden

Author : Robin Farrar Maass
Publisher : SparkPress
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684631322

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The Walled Garden by Robin Farrar Maass Pdf

Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, The Crown, and Downton Abbey. American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who’s the subject of Lucy’s dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters—and when an elderly English aristocrat with a secret connection to Elizabeth offers Lucy access to a neglected walled garden on his estate, the mystery deepens. As spring turns to summer in Bolton Lacey, Lucy finds herself fighting the Blackspear Gardens’ director’s attempt to deny her access to vital documents in the archives . . . and trying not to fall in love with an attractive Scottish contractor. In the midst of this turmoil, she stumbles upon an illicit plot to turn the historic gardens into a theme park, and becomes determined to stop it. As she races against time to save the gardens, Lucy’s search for the truth about Elizabeth’s life leads her to a French convent where she uncovers explosive evidence that will change her life and the lives of everyone around her, ultimately revealing a home—and an inheritance—more incredible than anything she could ever have imagined.

Author : Anahita Firouz
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316073776

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In the Walled Gardens by Anahita Firouz Pdf

Set in the exotic, seductive world of pre-revolutionary Iran, In the Walled Garden tells the nostalgic and moving story of Mahastee and Reza, who loved each other as children but have not seen each other for 20 years. Mahastee, who has become trapped by the privileged society she has grown up in, is struggling to keep her identity in the face of the increasingly empty role she inhabits. Reza has grown up to become a Marxist revolutionary, leading underground meetings and living on the edge. When chance brings the two together again, their encounters are a portrait not only of an ill-fated love, but of two worlds at odds, moving ever closer to a doomed collision.

Author : Jules Hudson
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781911358480

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Walled Gardens by Jules Hudson Pdf

BBC presenter Jules Hudson (Countryfile, Escape to the Country) is passionate about walled gardens. In this book, he looks at walled gardens throughout England and Wales and explores their history, innovative design and cultural heritage. The walled garden was once an essential component of every country house, its shelter providing ideal conditions for growing food, flowers and medicine. This book from the National Trust looks at walled gardens throughout England and Wales and explores their history, innovative design and cultural heritage. Walled gardens are a feature of British gardening history. In the late 18th century, gardens became status symbols, with aristocrats vying to grow ever more exotic fruits – ushering in innovations such as glasshouses and even heated walls. With the First and Second World Wars many of these gardens fell into disrepair, but renovated ones feature at many key National Trust properties and remain a source of pride and fascination today.

Author : Catherine Dunne
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447211723

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The Walled Garden by Catherine Dunne Pdf

Beth flew the coop as soon as she could, making a life for herself in London. James, her dutiful brother, stayed in Dublin, raising a family not far from their mother, Alice. Now Alice is dying and Beth has returned to the shabby grandeur of her childhood home to keep vigil by her mother’s bedside. Unable to speak, the only way Alice feels she can bridge the gap of understanding between her daughter and herself is to write letters to her seeking reconciliation. Set during the last days of Alice's life, this is also an extraordinary perceptive novel about childhood and growing old.

Author : Annabel Davis-Goff
Publisher : Eland Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1906011028

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Walled Gardens by Annabel Davis-Goff Pdf

"Walled Gardens is a brilliant portrait of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, struggling through the post-war depression aided by drink, horse-racing and religion, and their own idiosyncratic adaptations to modern life. Seen from the troubled perspective of the daughter of an aristocratic family in decline, we watch the disintegration of a marriage in elegant but emotionally chilled surroundings, and the struggle to keep up appearances, and a collapsing roof, in front of the neighbours. By turns sad, absurd and funny, the story is ultimately liberating as failure leads to freedom."--Global Books in Print.

Author : Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanāʼī al-Ghaznavī
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015039594984

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The Walled Garden of Truth by Abū al-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanāʼī al-Ghaznavī Pdf

Author : Shawna Coronado
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781627886208

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Grow a Living Wall by Shawna Coronado Pdf

Sometimes called "Green Walls" or "Vertical Gardens," living walls are easier than ever to plan and grow! Grow a Living Wall is the first wall-gardening book to focus exclusively on the needs of home gardeners. Make your vertical garden environmentally friendly and sustainable. It's easy with author Shawna Coronado's help! One of her themed vertical gardens is stocked mostly with flowers to make it a haven for bees and other pollinators. Other gardens are filled with vegetables and herbs so anyone with an outdoor wall can grow their own food - beautifully! Even more gardens promote aromatherapy or medicinal plants. Some are designed to provide a green net of air filtration near a living area, or to protect exterior walls from exposure to direct sunlight, which helps to keep the indoors cool. In addition to the comprehensive, step-by-step information that explains the basics of vertical gardening, each of the 20 featured gardens has its own chapter filled with useful tips, stunning photography, and fascinating background stories that point out how much difference a small garden can make. Like author Shawna herself, the gardens you'll find in Grow a Living Wall are positive, life affirming, and sure to produce a smile or two.

Author : Susan Campbell
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0747806578

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Walled Kitchen Gardens by Susan Campbell Pdf

The kitchen garden was designed to provide a continual supply not only of fruit, flowers and vegetables, but also of plants that had medicinal and veterinary uses, plants for flavouring food and drink, and those providing dyes, perfumes, narcotics, disinfectants, poisons and pesticides. With the aid of heated glasshouses, there would be out-of-season delicies such as strawberries for Christmas, exotic tropical fruits, and even figs and grapes. Once found in the grounds of most large country houses in Britain and Ireland, many have sadly fallen into disuse and ruin. Their remains can still be seen, however: some have been converted to other uses, others simply abandoned, while a few have been restored to their former glory and productiveness. This highly illustrated book explores a horticultural history spanning hundreds of years, and provides an extensive gazetteer of kitchen gardens that can still be visited today.

Author : Leslie Geddes-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gardening
ISBN : WISC:89099244527

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The Walled Garden by Leslie Geddes-Brown Pdf

It traces the history of the phenomenon from the gardens of Ancient Greece and Rome and medieval depictions of the hortus conclusus ('enclosed garden') to avant-garde designs by today's leading practitioners. Thematic chapters cover such subjects as formal enclosures, walled herb gardens and those by well-known modern designers. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction followed by four or five beautifully illustrated features on specific gardens.

Author : Cornerhouse Publications,Ian Hamilton Finlay
Publisher : Cornerhouse Distribution Clients
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Garden structures
ISBN : 0906630606

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A Walled Garden by Cornerhouse Publications,Ian Hamilton Finlay Pdf

'A Walled Garden' reproduces the complete set of watercolours that Ian Gardner made in collaboration with Ian Hamilton Finlay for the unpublished book, 'A Walled Garden: A History of the Spandau Garden in the Time of the Architect Albert Speer'. Finlay conceived the project after corresponding with the former Third Reich architect in the late 1970s, shortly after the publication of Clara and Richard Winston's English translation of, 'Spandau: The Secret Diaries' (1976), Speer's clandestine record of his twenty-year imprisonment in west Berlin's Spandau prison from 1946 to 1966.

Author : Cadence Kinsey
Publisher : British Academy Monographs
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0197266827

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Walled Gardens by Cadence Kinsey Pdf

This book analyses the relationship between art and the Internet from 2008 to 2016. As well as offering a critical account of the field, it also proposes a wider historical argument about what it means to live, work, and make art with the Internet in the twenty first century.

Author : Patrick McHale,Sean Edgar
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781506703763

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The Art of Over the Garden Wall by Patrick McHale,Sean Edgar Pdf

"A complete tour through the development and production of the hit animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall, this volume contains hundreds of pieces of concept art and sketches"--

Author : Abigail Willis
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780711252233

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Secret Gardens of Somerset by Abigail Willis Pdf

Secret Gardens of Somerset offers a personal tour of 20 of the UK’s most beguiling gardens in this much-loved area of southern England, defined by its distinctive horticulture, rolling hills, picturesque villages and the most traditional English landscape. Abigail Willis and Clive Boursnell give you privileged access to 20 gardens, from a highly productive working flower farm to very personal private retreats, revealing their history, design and plant collections, in the company of their devoted owners and head gardeners. In the footsteps of artists and trend-setters from Victorian designers such as Harold Peto to planting visionary, Gertrude Jekyll as well as contemporary pioneer Piet Oudolf, we find a series of beguiling country gardens of different sizes and atmospheres, which have shaped the English identity, and in different ways express the ideals of English life. The gardens: The American Museum and Gardens, Barley Wood Walled Garden, Batcombe House, The Bishop’s Palace, Common Farm, Cothay Manor, East Lambrook Manor, Elworthy Cottage, Forest Lodge, Greencombe Gardens, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Hestercombe, Iford Manor, Kilver Court, Midney Gardens, Milton Lodge gardens, The Newt in Somerset, Stoberry House, Westbrook House, and Yeo Valley Organic Garden. Most of the gardens included here are privately owned and usually open to the public. Meanwhile, all of these landscapes can now be enjoyed through the eyes of the owners themselves. Tour even more magnificent English gardens with Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds and Secret Gardens of East Anglia.

Author : Suzanne Berne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476794259

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The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne Pdf

From the Orange Prize–winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood, Suzanne Berne’s The Dogs of Littlefield is “sublime” (The Chicago Tribune), a suspenseful and hilarious “suburban comedy of manners par excellence” (Kirkus Reviews) that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns of suburban America. Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Twenty Best Places to Live in America, is full of psychologists and college professors, proud of its fine schools, its girls’ soccer teams, its leafy streets, and quaint village center. Yet when sociologist Dr. Clarice Watkins arrived in Littlefield to study the elements of “good quality of life” someone begins poisoning the town’s dogs. Are the poisonings in protest to an off-leash proposal for Baldwin Park—the subject of much town debate—or the sign of a far deeper disorder? “Nothing sucks a reader in like psychological menace, and Suzanne Berne is a master of the craft…. Her scenes are elegantly composed, and even throwaway characters jump off the page” (The New York Times). A wry exploration of the discontent concealed behind the manicured lawns and picket fences of darkest suburbia, The Dogs of Littlefield explodes with “comic exuberance and restrained beauty” (The Boston Globe).

Author : Jules Hudson
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781911358909

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The Escape to the Country Handbook by Jules Hudson Pdf

Inspiration and advice about finding a dream home in the countryside from Jules Hudson, presenter of the BBC's Escape to the Country. Escape to the Country has run on daytime BBC1 since 2002 and is now in its eighteenth season. Each week it helps urban buyers find their dream home in rural Britain by showing them specially selected properties. Along the way the program tells us about the landscape and history of the area they are in. The program is on every weekday and has been sold to thirty countries including Australia, Canada, and the USA. This is an inspirational and practical book to appeal to armchair dreamers and lovers of property porn as well as those really thinking of making the move. Regional sections look at the typical kinds of homes found in each place, along with local landscapes and landmarks. Features sprinkled throughout the book cover everything from dealing with listed building consent and public footpaths to how grow your own food. Jules is well placed to talk about conservation and renovation issues too, having trained as an archaeologist and renovated his own historic house.