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Russell web page used to be essentially the most recognized panorama gardeners in Europe. this is often his vintage textual content describing his education and the making of his many and celebrated gardens. Written in transparent, based prose, illustrated with a considerable photographic part, this variation boasts photographs via Marina Schinz of Russell Page's gardens in a extra mature shape and hitherto unpublished photos from the author's records with a foreword and captions via Fred Whitsey, gardening correspondent to the Daily Telegraph.

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An ingenious device for linking the formal arc-shaped terrace with the wild area beyond: a curlicue in box echoes the classical French broderie. Placing the steps at right angles to the retaining wall avoids grandeur and economises on space. The stone is tooled in character with the decoration on the wall of the house and the broad, shallow steps at the foot emphasise the transition from house to garden The lakeside garden of Creux de Genthod which commands a view of Mont Blanc. F. at Plymouth only a few miles away.

These are the best preserved, but in the villages in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, down to the sea at Motril and eastwards to Malaga and beyond, I have found many traces of small Moorish gardens. Next to the airport at Malaga there is a fine elaborate late seventeenth or early eighteenth century “Italian” garden of paved terraces, balustraded stairways, fountains and a quantity of statues and urns, the whole elaborate and effective. But I sensed that the site of both house and garden had been carefully chosen (as only the Moors knew how), and I set out to explore the less frequented areas of the garden where, sure enough, I found an octagonal fountain of the fourteenth century falling to pieces in a cabbage patch and a long canal-like reservoir which still feeds the later formal water garden.

In this garden much attention was paid to detail. Tumblers were always set ready by a spring which bubbled out of the ground below an ivy-covered grotto. Peacocks were fed each noon from the dining-room window. Indeed in France in the thirties the minor elegances of living, made possible only by a large number of servants, still existed. In 1932 I spent a summer holiday alone in this house with a fine library of garden books at my disposal, and it was then that I began to draw garden compositions.

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