The Jewel Garden

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Here Monty invites you into the garden at Longmeadow, to show you how you can do the same in your own. The book gives the reader a glimpse into this maelstrom, but it is just a glimpse as anyone that has been through similar will attest. The jewel city gardens, palaces, planning and achievement its architecture, sculpture, symbolism and music 1915 [Hardcover] Monty Don's gardening programme is essential viewing in my household where his every utterance is treated with reverence. I knew a little about his life, the jewellery business, the depressive episodes etc. This book explains more.

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Writing as someone who suffers from Depression and has suffered from S.A.D since before it had a name, this book has given me a reset and removed some angst in regard to how I view myself. I do really love this book. I've been watching "Gardener's World" on the BBC for several years now, and it main allure, aside from learning a great deal about gardening, is, of course, its main figure and chief gardener, Monty Don. I tell my friends he makes me think of Lady Chatterly's Lover. He looks just enough rough on the edges to make him interesting, but he can touch a flower like it were a lady's cheek, and when he speaks, ah when he speaks, and says something like, "and look at the lovely lush, blushing pink of this dahlia.." you (ladies) are nearly thrown into a swoon. So I was a little jealous of Sarah, who never appears on screen, and to be honest, I bought this book to find out more about this wonderful man. But surprise surprise, Sarah holds her own very well, so well in fact that in the end, I have to admit that she is (to me) just as appealing as he, and it is no wonder that they found each other. The Jewel City: Its Planning and Achievement; Its Architecture, Sculpture, Symbolism, and Music; Its Gardens, Palaces, and Exhibits Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuthHe wrote this book with his wife, Sarah, and I must say I enjoyed her contributions as much as I did Monty’s . Here is a good example. The interplay between what he writes and then what she writes adds depth to the story of their garden. For they are a team effort. They began designing jewelry together, and their company became wildly successful, only to have the company fall upon its own bejewelled sword when the economy went bust. That part of their life is reflected in the section of their property they now call The Jewel Garden. Sarah pulled on her Wellington’s and strode out the front door. She saw her husband lovingly teaching Adam the ancient art of topiary, a skill that would be vital when he started at Eton next year. This is the distillation of fifty years of gardening experience. It has all Monty’s tips and essential pieces of knowledge; and also shares his view that gardening is the secret to living well. This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way.

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This beautiful, full colour book guides us through the history and beauty of Japanese gardens, from the famous cherry blossom to the magnificence of autumn colours. Overwhelmingly honest, passionate, inspiring, with prose to die for... a meditation on family and love * Independent on Sunday * But the lemon light of September is both radiant and wistful, touched simultaneously with glory and regret. The love of gardening and the creation of garden runs through the entire book, it is the glue that holds all together. I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough go to albumOverwhelmingly honest, passionate, inspiring, with prose to die for. Like everything else Don does, this purports to be about gardens and gardening but is actually a meditation on family and love. * Julie Myerson, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday * It is more than a tale of a garden - wonderful and encouraging as The Jewel Garden is but also a story of a marriage in all its unsanitised honesty.

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in spite of all the risks involved - a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.' - Olga Tokarczuk, Flights. This book is a reflection on how the Jewel Garden, and the garden in which it is set (known as Longmeadow on the TV although I don't believe that's its actual name), came into being, after the Dons' original jewelry business failed and left them broke and jobless. A chance bequest gave them enough money to put down a deposit on a house, and being (evidently) considerable risk-takers they went for an ancient, unrenovated farmhouse and two acres of field, near a river that turned out to be rather good at flooding. A great many middle aged folk will remember how Thatcher-ism ended badly, many more will remember how it was never much more than misery.Condition: New. Monty Don, presenter of Gardeners World and the face of British gardening, and his wife Sarah tell the magical story of the garden they built at Longmeadow.Über den AutorrnrnMonty and Sarah Don have been gardening together for 30 years.