Gardens Of Ireland

Author : Jane Powers
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 9780711232228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Garden written by Jane Powers and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit over forty of Ireland's most beautiful gardens without moving from your armchair with this stunning book, ranging from the grand old demesnes of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy to the intensely personal creations of passionate plantsmen and garden makers. Visitors to Ireland are often surprised at the 'palm trees' that make so many gardens look as if they belong in a holiday postcard. How can such exotics survive on an island that is as far north as the prairies of Canada and the pine forests of Siberia? The answer lies in the tail of the Gulf Stream - the North Atlantic Drift - which wraps around this green land on the western edge of Europe. Its warm and watery embrace bestows the renowned 'soft' climate that allows those palm trees (in fact, New Zealand cordylines) to make their homes here - along with tree ferns from Australia and bananas from Japan. Plants from colder regions, including rhododendrons, primulas and all manner of alpines, are equally happy. So, with a range of plants that runs from the subtropical to the subarctic, and a landscape that varies from gently pastoral to savagely rugged, the aptly named Emerald Isle has some of the most romantic and interesting gardens in the world. The result of a lifetime visiting, considering and writing about gardens in Ireland, and several years of dedicated photography, this is a truly comprehensive exploration of a fascinating subject.

Author : Shirley Lanigan
Publisher : Liberties Press
ISBN 13 : 9781907593161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 100 Best Gardens in Ireland written by Shirley Lanigan and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 100 Best Gardens in Ireland takes readers on an informative pictorial tour of some of Ireland's most spectacular gardens. Exploring these gardens' histories, design, flora, and fauna, this book also includes interviews with owners, curators, and gardeners. Replete with full-color illustrations, this is the essential guide to 100 of the greatest and most beautiful gardens across the whole of Ireland.

Author : William Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wild Garden; Or, Our Groves & Shrubberies Made Beautiful by the Naturalization of Hardy Exotic Plants written by William Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olda FitzGerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840910148
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Gardens written by Olda FitzGerald and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured here are famous historic gardens, as well as new and restored ones. The photographs capture the atmosphere of each garden while the text describes the design, planting and ornamental features.

Author : Shirley Lanigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907593475
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Guide to the 100 Best Gardens in Ireland written by Shirley Lanigan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and lavishly illustrated, this informative, interesting, and pictorial tour of Ireland's most spectacular gardens explores the history, design, flora, and fauna of the gardens, and also features practical information on admission and opening hours. "If you take along this invaluable guidebook, visitors to Ireland may look forward to a fabulous tour of some of the most spectacular as well as intimate gardens that this green isle has to offer."-Current Books on Gardening and Botany

Author : Peter Dale
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750989599
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Garden written by Peter Dale and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't leave yet. Let there be one more piece of magic to remember the place by. Is there something especially Irish about Irish gardens? The climate, soils, availability of plants and skills of green-fingered people generate an unusually benign environment, it's true, but not one that is unique to Ireland. Irish gardens tend to avoid magnificence in favour of a quiet and domesticated beauty, but that is not peculiar to Ireland either. Strains of Irishness run through these gardens like seams of ore. Seen not just as zones of horticultural bravura, but also as reflections of historical, cultural, political and religious events and values, the gardens accrue an unusual richness of surface and depth of meaning. Atmospherically illustrated by Brian Lalor, The Irish Garden wanders into individual gardens, rather than presenting a sweeping chronology. This book is a rhapsody on themes of Irishness, as if the spirit and soul of Ireland itself were sometimes more visible in these places than in the more conventionally visited locations of battlefields, breweries and bars.

Author : Klaus Laitenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956506306
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vegetables for the Irish Garden written by Klaus Laitenberger and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers all aspects of organic vegetable growing and is specially tailored for Irish growing conditions. Each vegetable is described in detail including its history, folklore and concise information on how to grow it. It also covers ground preparation, soil fertility, composting, and green manuring.

Author : Wendy Walsh
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500233634
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish Florilegium written by Wendy Walsh and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1983 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendy Walsh, following in the traditions of botanical artists from previous ages, has put her exceptional skills to marvellous effect in this beautiful collection of watercolour drawings. She has painted here a selection of the native and cultivated flora of Ireland, where she lives, chosen not only for their botanical interest or attractiveness but also because they happen to have an interesting history: Ireland has produced a surprising number of devoted and intrepid plant-hunters who played a significant part in the introduction into Europe of plants from remote places. Ruth Isabel Ross recounts the history of plant collecting and horticulture by the Irish since earliest times, and Dr Charles Nelson has written extensive notes on the individual plants. The main attraction of this book, however, remains the delicate and subtle watercolour drawings of Wendy Walsh, who works only from nature, painting the actual plants which are her subjects.

Author : Sarah Raven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526640392
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year Full of Flowers written by Sarah Raven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven's style – and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden. A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time. Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that's full of life and colour. Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through winter, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks. This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it's also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life – this book shows you how you can too.

Author : Niall Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635577195
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Kiltumper written by Niall Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world. 35 years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in New York City and move to Christine's ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed, the pair dedicated themselves to writing, gardening, and living a life that followed the rhythms of the earth. In 2019, with Christine in the final stages of recovery from cancer and the land itself threatened by the arrival of turbines just one farm over, Niall and Christine decided to document a year of living in their garden and in their small corner of a rapidly changing world. Proceeding month-by-month through the year, and with beautiful seasonal illustrations, this is the story of a garden in all its many splendors and a couple who have made their life observing its wonders.