Winter Gardens: Reinventing the Season

by Cedric Pollet

Overview

In this stunning reimagination of an entire season, acclaimed and award-winning author and photographer Cedric Pollet presents 20 of the most beautiful winter gardens accross France and the UK.

Winner of the Garden Media Guild - Garden Book of the Year award, Pollet showcases these breathtaking winter gardens which are at their best when most gardens are at their barest.

Rich with blazes of colour and light, these gardens use creative structural planning and subtle textures to greate masterful visual and sensory ensembles.

From berries and barks to vibrant shrubs and evergreens, these gardens will delight and inspire in equal measure, all captured in extroardinary photographs by Pollet, one of today's masters of garden photography and accompanied by insightful text which picks out the reasons these gardens are so special.

The second half of the book is an illustrated directory of over 300 plants which encourage you to achieve these effects in their own gardens.

From the author of bestselling Bark: An Intimate Look at the World's Trees, this beautiful guide is a unique and unmissable book on some of the most creative and inspiring gardens around today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711255982
Publisher:	Frances Lincoln
Publication date:	12/21/2021
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	483,772
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Cédric Pollet has combined his scientific background and his passion for plants to create a highly informative text, which compliments the beauty of his photographs. He is the author of Bark: An Intimate Look at the World's Trees, which was awarded the Redouté Prix Artistique for 2009 in his native France and sold over 50,000 copies worldwide.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Four Favourites 14

L'Étang de Launay 16

Jardin du Bois Marquis 34

Sir Harold Hillier Gardens 50

Bressingham Gardens 64

Sources of Inspiration 78

Harlow Carr 80

Jardins de Bellevue 86

Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum 88

La Pommeraie 92

Lady Farm Gardens 94

The Manor House 98

Cambridge University Botanic Garden 100

Wisley 104

Le Clos du Verbose 112

Stone Lane Gardens 114

Le Perdrier 118

Le Vasterival 120

Rosemoor 124

The Savill Garden 126

La Mare aux Trembles 130

Anglesey Abbey 132

The Plant Palette 138

Ornamental bark 140

Factors affecting colour 142

Cleaning and clearing 150

Unbeatable trees 152

Betula 152

Acer 166

Other species with remarkable bark 168

Indispensable coloured stems 174

Cornus 174

Salix 180

Acer 184

Rubus 186

Bamboos 188

Complementary coloured branches 192

Other touches of colour 194

Winter flowering 196

Winter-flowering trees and shrubs 196

Winter-flowering perennials and bulbs 202

Winter fruiting 204

Berries and fleshy fruits 204

Dry inflorescences and fruits 208

Structural plants 212

Amazing conifers 212

Other evergreens with winter colour 216

Index 220

Nurseries & addresses of winter gardens 222

Acknowledgments 224

Editorial Reviews

Bark will have you panting; it is the last word in garden porn. Printed on the glossiest paper, it’s a large-format book showing ... well, bark, tree skin, with full-length tree portraits thrown in to lower the temperature a little. Pollet has spent years travelling the world with his camera and has produced what, at first glance, might be a book on abstract painting, such are the patterns, textures and vibrant colours. For once the word gorgeous truly applies, and if there’s not much reading here it doesn’t matter. Look at that Tasmanian snow gum! Look at that bull’s-horn acacia! Phwoaar! Show me the nature-lover who could resist. (Times)

A spectacular book. Pollet is a French nature photographer with a singular eye for the colors and patterns in bark. (Seattle Times)

“I think it’s a beautiful book that will be well received in the UK. The photography is brilliant and shows the gardens off to their best. You have picked the best gardens in the UK and I believe that people will want to buy a copy, including myself.” 
 —Tony Kirkham, head of the Arboretum, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

"This book is a beautiful guide to the best gardens to enjoy all that is amazing about winter in the plant world and the wonderful photography brings everything to life!  Showcasing the seasons in a garden are very important to creating all year interest and diversity and for me winter is one of the most beautiful, where choosing plants wisely can help to create a dazzling display. You may think that the range of plants is limited but that’s not the case as this book highlights.”
 
 —Jonathan Webster, curator of RHS Garden Rosemoor

"Cédric Polletis to be congratulated not only for providing such stunning photographs illuminating winter colour in all its glory, but also for the detailed research he has put into this superb book."
 
 —Adrian Bloom, president of world renowned nursery Blooms of Bressingham in Norfolk

In his fabulous new book, Pollet showcases the rich palettes, luminous colours and fierce evergreens that populate nature at its nippiest. Featuring more than 20 breathtaking gardens in the UK and France, it will have you pulling on your wellies before you've even put it down. —Daily Mail

The best winter gardens in the UK and France, highlighting an indispensable palette of plants used in their creation. This book will appeal to plantsmen and garden designers alike, as well as those who simply enjoy visiting gardens,
 —Gardens Illustrated

To ignore the opportunities brought by winter is to dismiss at least a quarter of the gardening year, especially now that the selection of winter plants presently available to gardeners is vastly improved… Such is the point driven home by Cedric Pollet, whose richly coloured new work is a call to view this neglected season in a completely new way.  Pollet deftly highlights the fact that most winter pleasures are revealed only to those who will look…. This is a glorious book to be savoured on a long, damp afternoon. 
 —The English Garden

"a startling riot of colour and texture"—Evening Standard

"Page after page of spectacular textures and colours... This book reminds us that gardening is life and life goes on in every moment... Winter is as alive and vibrant as summer - when you let it be. Here's a way to make it so." —Irish Examiner

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