A Garden Lost In Time: The Mystery of the Ancient Gardens of Aberglasney

Gardeners can learn so much from these centuries-old ruined gardens of a famous Welsh estate. You'll appreciate your own overgrown and under-tended spaces--and find marvelous ideas for giving them new life as you stroll these 19th- and 18th-century gardens, and as you touch remnants of a 500-year-old Renaissance garden--and even earlier medieval grounds. Lavish, oversized color photos and an artful text take you through woods, brambles, and vine-strewn tunnels over 700 years old. As you explore the nine gardens of Aberglasney through changes under different owners with vastly different tastes, the experts who restored it in the early 1990s tell how they decided what to keep--and suggest how best to retain earlier periods from your own plantings. 192 pages, 80 color illus., 20 b/w illus., 8 x 10 5/8. NEW IN PAPERBACK

A Garden Lost in Time: The Mystery of the Ancient Gardens of Aberglasney

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

David, Penny

Gardening & Landscape Design

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

March 1483, and Spain is preparing for yet more war. Surgeon Thomas Berrington makes a reluctant journey to Qurtuba at the request of his master. He expects only to operate on a Spanish prince and return home to Moorish al-Andalus. But fate has something else in store for him and his companion, the eunuch Jorge. A warped killer has been murdering young women and creating twisted creatures from their bodies. When Thomas is tasked by Queen Isabel to hunt down the culprit he is propelled into an unfamiliar world of religious mania where it is impossible to tell who can be trusted. Meanwhile Jorge is on a quest of his own-to track down the family he hasn't seen in almost twenty years. When Jorge's new found niece is chosen as the Bonebreaker's next victim the pair are faced with their most dangerous challenge yet. Will they be able to expose the killer in time, or is there yet another life to pay for one man's madness? Sometimes only sacrifice can save those you love.

Breaker of Bones (Thomas Berrington Historical Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

David Penny

Past and future meet in a magical space where 19th- and 18th-century plantings touch remnants from the Renaissance and medieval days--and where a beautiful restoration has brought a forgotten world back to life. Lavish, oversized color photos and artful text lead you through the nine magnificent gardens of the venerable Welsh estate, Aberglasney. Wander in woods, brambles, and vine-strewn tunnels more than 700 years old. For more than 50 years, they were left to decay, but renovation has brought back landscapes bright and strong, repaired the broken masonry, and returned order to the Italianate Cloisters, Victorian arboretum, garden walk; and everywhere on the grounds. As the work proceeded, layers of the past emerged--including the only possible survivor in England of a Renaissance garden plan. This compelling narrative reads like a historical detective story, in which gardeners and archeologists unravel the garden's puzzles and the mysteries of its origins.

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