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The Education Of A GardenerEditions
Review"Gardens are ephemeral things; they can be easily be altered , they can grow over, they can be abandoned." These are the words of Russell Page and they might well be applied to the reputations of garden designers. Not so with Mr Page whose autobiography has been in print more or less continuously since 1962, and in which he reveals the influences and experiences which helped develop his taste and skills as one of the great garden gurus of the 20th Century. In projects large and small, from the acres of woodland for the Agnellis in the Piedmont to the Frick Museum in New York, his work is distinguished by an appropriate sense of proportion within an environment and by a restrained use of colour. The principles he propounds of discretion to his clients and sensitivity to the surroundings are still to be valued today and there is much to be learned from this urbane memoir. - review by Stewart Grimshaw |
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