A Garden Well Placed

Name: A Garden Well Placed
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The Story of Helmingham and Other Gardens

By Xa Tollemache

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Summary

A Garden Well Placed chronicles Xa Tollemache's gardening journey, beginning with her move to Helmingham Hall in Suffolk in 1975. Over two decades, she nurtured and transformed the gardens, learning invaluable lessons that led her to establish a garden design practice in 1996. The book combines her personal story with insights into eleven other distinctive garden projects, including her acclaimed Chelsea Flower Show garden and several notable English estates.
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Format: Hardback

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This book will appeal to garden enthusiasts, amateur and professional garden designers, and readers interested in personal stories behind garden creation and restoration. Its focus on English heritage gardens also suits those who appreciate country living and landscape design.

The story of how Xa Tollemache re-created the garden at Helmingham Hall, in Suffolk - and became a garden designer

Description

Xa Tollemache started her gardening life when she moved into Helmingham Hall in Suffolk in 1975, as a young wife and mother. She spent the next twenty years learning and consequently developing and improving the gardens. It was Helmingham, she always insists, that taught her how to garden - to such effect that in 1996 she was in a position to start her garden design practice.

Xa Tollemache describes this book, her first, as 'a story book, the tale of the love story between me and the garden at Helmingham'. It is also a record of her career as a garden designer, exemplified by eleven other gardens, large and small, on which she has worked her design magic: her first Chelsea Flower Show garden ("I was described as 'just an amateur', which was true - but I did get a Gold Medal!"); and gardens in Dunbeath, Caithness; Castle Hill, Devon; Cholmondley, Cheshire; Bighton, Hampshire; Wilton, Wiltshire; Aldeburgh, Suffolk; Bell House, Suffolk; Stone House, Suffolk; RHS Hyde Hall, Essex - and the garden at her new home, Framsden Hall in Suffolk.

A Garden Well Placed is both an expression of her personal journey and a showcase of her professional accomplishments in the world of garden design.

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Reviews praise Xa Tollemache's sensitivity as a garden designer and her ability to harmonise history, landscape, architecture, and people within her work. Fergus Garrett commends her intuitive approach, while the Society of Garden Designers highlights her spirit and emphasis on fitting gardens to their houses. Readers appreciate her candid storytelling style, hearing about both successes and challenges, making the book informative and engaging.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781910258804

Publisher: Gemini Books Group Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pimpernel Press Ltd

Contributors:

Foreword by Fergus Garrett

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Xa Tollemache learned how to garden, and how to design gardens, at her new home, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk. She set up her garden design practice in 1996, and one of the very first gardens she designed as a professional was the Evening Standard garden for the 1997 Chelsea Flower Show - for which she won a Gold Medal. She has since designed two more medal-winning gardens for Chelsea, as well as gardens all over the UK and in Europe and the US. She is currently a Member of the Council of the RHS, Chair of the Gardens Committee, a Member of the Horticulture Board and an RHS Judge. Fergus Garrett was chosen by Christopher Lloyd as his head gardener at Dixter in 1992. He worked closely with Christo until Lloyd's death in 2006. He is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, and also combines his full-time, hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing all over the world. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS in 2015 and in 2019, the coveted Victoria Medal of Honour.