The Road to Le Tholonet A French Garden Journey edition by Monty Don Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
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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.
Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through every garden older than a generation or two and fill every corner of the grander historical ones. Families marry. Gardeners are poached. Political allegiances forged and shattered. The human trail crosses from garden to garden.
They sit in their surrounding landscape, not as isolated islands but attached umbilically to it, sharing the geology, the weather, food, climate, local folklore, accent and cultural identity. Wines must be drunk and food tasted. Recipes found and compared. The perfect tarte-tartin pursued. None of these things can be ignored or separated from the shape and size of parterre, fountain, herbaceous border or pottager.
So this is a book filled with stories and information, some of it about French gardens and gardening, but most of it about what makes France unlike anywhere else.
From historical gardens like Versailles,Vaux le Vicomte and Courances to the kitchen gardens of the Michelin chef Alain Passard. There will be grand potagers like Villandry and La Prieure D'Orsan and allotments and back gardens spotted on the way. Monty also celebrates the obvious French associations of food and wine and finds gardens dedicated to vegetables, herbs and fruit.
It is a book that any visitor to France, whether gardeners or not, will want to read both as a guide and an inspiration. It is a portal to get under the French cultural skin and to understand the country, in all its huge variety and disparity, a little better.
The Road to Le Tholonet A French Garden Journey edition by Monty Don Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
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The Road to Le Tholonet A French Garden Journey edition by Monty Don Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks Reviews
Love Monty Don's passion for gardens, his insights into the French culture. He writes with style, humour and genuine respect for the gardeners he has encountered on his travels through France. See the TV series too - magic!
Parellels his TV series on landscape history, French section.
mix of history with the gardens very good, but Monty seems to have an English bias towards the informal style, very revealing.
Monty Don is a wonderful writer. I loved reading about his escapades and travels.
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