From a Victorian Garden : Creating the Romance of a Bygone Age Right in Your Own Backyard by Michael Weishan read online book PDF, DJV
9780670894260 English 0670894265 From Michael Weishan, host of the long-running PBS series The Victory Garden, comes the first gardening book of its kind. From a Victorian Garden offers a unique landmark approach to traditional gardening by bringing back to life the lush splendor of an actual Victorian garden via period photographs, letters, and journals, and using these records as a guide for today's landscapes. In From a Victorian Garden, Weishan provides the reader with a distinctive two-pronged approach to the process of creating a historically accurate period garden. He first tells the story of the O'Reilly family and Point Ellice House, the Victorian home and garden they built more than a century ago in British Columbia. Point Ellice, long considered to be one of western Canada's finest collections of Victoriana still in its original setting, remained in the O'Reilly family from 1868 through 1975. The remarkable historical records left by this family then became a point of departure from which Weishan shows the reader how to replicate the magnificence of a well-planned and executed turn-of-the-last-century landscape. Using the gardens of Point Ellice as a guide, Michael Weishan shows readers how to re-create the romance of the Victorian garden right in their own backyards, from simple projects such as growing period annuals to more advanced gardening skills, such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying out a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. A must-have, highly accessible addition to every gardener's library, From a Victorian Garden is at once a journey back in time to the gilded age of gardening as well as an up-to-data reference for creating period landscapes today. Michael Weishan is a twenty-year veteran in the field of historical gardening. In addition to being principal of his own landscape design firm, Michael Weishan and Associates, Weishan is also the host of PBS's The Victory Garden as well as the gardening editor for Country Living Magazine and contributing editor to Country Living Gardener. He lives outside of Boston in a restored 1852 farmhouse surrounded by three acres of gardens Book jacket., From a Victorian Gardenis the first gardening book of its kind'a remarkable historical record and the point of departure for modern gardeners replicating the charms of a traditional turn-of-the-century garden for their own delight. Using period photographs and new full color photography together with material from journals and letters, this book remembers the magnificent Victorian garden of the Point Ellice House created more than a century ago by the O?Reilly family. It is here that Judge Peter O?Reilly and his wife Caroline and daughter Kathleen established a glorious floral landscape, perfectly maintained throughout the decades. Horticulturally inspiring, and filled with wonderful photographs and rich, detailed text, this book takes readers step-by-step through the basics of their own heirloom gardens, to the more advanced concepts such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. Bursting with ideas for gaining abundant pleasure from your own garden, From a Victorian Gardenreveals one of the truly magnificent gardens of the past'still very much alive today., From a Victorian Gardenis the first gardening book of its kind—a remarkable historical record and the point of departure for modern gardeners replicating the charms of a traditional turn-of-the-century garden for their own delight. Using period photographs and new full color photography together with material from journals and letters, this book remembers the magnificent Victorian garden of the Point Ellice House created more than a century ago by the O’Reilly family. It is here that Judge Peter O’Reilly and his wife Caroline and daughter Kathleen established a glorious floral landscape, perfectly maintained throughout the decades.Horticulturally inspiring, and filled with wonderful photographs and rich, detailed text, this book takes readers step-by-step through the basics of their own heirloom gardens, to the more advanced concepts such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. Bursting with ideas for gaining abundant pleasure from your own garden, From a Victorian Gardenreveals one of the truly magnificent gardens of the past—still very much alive today.
9780670894260 English 0670894265 From Michael Weishan, host of the long-running PBS series The Victory Garden, comes the first gardening book of its kind. From a Victorian Garden offers a unique landmark approach to traditional gardening by bringing back to life the lush splendor of an actual Victorian garden via period photographs, letters, and journals, and using these records as a guide for today's landscapes. In From a Victorian Garden, Weishan provides the reader with a distinctive two-pronged approach to the process of creating a historically accurate period garden. He first tells the story of the O'Reilly family and Point Ellice House, the Victorian home and garden they built more than a century ago in British Columbia. Point Ellice, long considered to be one of western Canada's finest collections of Victoriana still in its original setting, remained in the O'Reilly family from 1868 through 1975. The remarkable historical records left by this family then became a point of departure from which Weishan shows the reader how to replicate the magnificence of a well-planned and executed turn-of-the-last-century landscape. Using the gardens of Point Ellice as a guide, Michael Weishan shows readers how to re-create the romance of the Victorian garden right in their own backyards, from simple projects such as growing period annuals to more advanced gardening skills, such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying out a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. A must-have, highly accessible addition to every gardener's library, From a Victorian Garden is at once a journey back in time to the gilded age of gardening as well as an up-to-data reference for creating period landscapes today. Michael Weishan is a twenty-year veteran in the field of historical gardening. In addition to being principal of his own landscape design firm, Michael Weishan and Associates, Weishan is also the host of PBS's The Victory Garden as well as the gardening editor for Country Living Magazine and contributing editor to Country Living Gardener. He lives outside of Boston in a restored 1852 farmhouse surrounded by three acres of gardens Book jacket., From a Victorian Gardenis the first gardening book of its kind'a remarkable historical record and the point of departure for modern gardeners replicating the charms of a traditional turn-of-the-century garden for their own delight. Using period photographs and new full color photography together with material from journals and letters, this book remembers the magnificent Victorian garden of the Point Ellice House created more than a century ago by the O?Reilly family. It is here that Judge Peter O?Reilly and his wife Caroline and daughter Kathleen established a glorious floral landscape, perfectly maintained throughout the decades. Horticulturally inspiring, and filled with wonderful photographs and rich, detailed text, this book takes readers step-by-step through the basics of their own heirloom gardens, to the more advanced concepts such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. Bursting with ideas for gaining abundant pleasure from your own garden, From a Victorian Gardenreveals one of the truly magnificent gardens of the past'still very much alive today., From a Victorian Gardenis the first gardening book of its kind—a remarkable historical record and the point of departure for modern gardeners replicating the charms of a traditional turn-of-the-century garden for their own delight. Using period photographs and new full color photography together with material from journals and letters, this book remembers the magnificent Victorian garden of the Point Ellice House created more than a century ago by the O’Reilly family. It is here that Judge Peter O’Reilly and his wife Caroline and daughter Kathleen established a glorious floral landscape, perfectly maintained throughout the decades.Horticulturally inspiring, and filled with wonderful photographs and rich, detailed text, this book takes readers step-by-step through the basics of their own heirloom gardens, to the more advanced concepts such as designing a welcoming driveway or laying a shrubbery border for year-round bloom. Bursting with ideas for gaining abundant pleasure from your own garden, From a Victorian Gardenreveals one of the truly magnificent gardens of the past—still very much alive today.