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Scent magic : notes from a gardener
In this romantic, evocative and extremely practical book Isabel Bannerman immerses the reader in the luscious smells of the secnted garden through a warmly written account of a year's gardening, combining poetic description and personal memories with an encyclopaedic reference work of the best aromatice plants to grow throughout the seasons.
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We remember 2801 dead Between the skyscrapers a few blocks from the devastation, two British designers are creating a garden to commemorate 9/11
Julian and Isabel Bannerman consistently snatch the plum prizes. Their plans are stamped By Appointment to the Prince of Wales, a result of their work at Highgrove. Follies, fountains and final resting places, from Scotland to Mustique, this husband and wife team has created them all. The brief requested flowers. They produced neither borders nor lawns but a garden bulging with topiary. \"It is old, timeless and cottagey,\" says Julian. Isabel adds: \"It is English churches and standing stones and haunts of ancient peace.\" They both thought of Rupert Brooke's line from The Soldier: \". . . there's some corner of a foreign field.\" The giant topiary will be more monolithic than cosy and, while the yew grows, metal frames will indicate their ultimate shapes. In the drawings they look purposefully wonky because they are designed to have the strange distortions that only come from years of growth. They may, Isabel suggests, be painted red. \"It has got to be bold,\" they say in unison.
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The stage is set for snowdrops
Another quick clump-former, with finer, more needle-like petals than '[S. Arnott]', but still lush and lovely. It's easy to grow, brings light under a tree, bulbs up easily, ideal standing with 'S. Arnott', towering above the rest in the February garden party. 'Straffan' An excellent, large, late-flowering form, with a distinct green mark on the inner petal that looks like a Chinese bridge. It often has a second, even later flower stem that starts to bloom towards the end of February. It's useful if you want a dispaly from Christmas until Easter. For a reliable succession, the first really good snowdrop to flower is G. retinae-olgae subsp. vernalis, with big grey leaves and medium-size flowers that can be in flower for Christmas. Start with that and end with 'Straffan', with any of these others in between. 'Hippolyta' Playing their parts to perfection: snowdrops lined up in the theatre at Hanham Court, top; Galanthus nivalis 'Flore Pleno'; JONATHAN BUCKLEY; Pot luck: clockwise from main picture, '[John Gray]'; 'Hippolyta'; [Isabel Bannerman] and [Julian]; 'Blewbury Tart'; JONATHAN BUCKLEY
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GARDENING SPECIAL: ON DEADLY GROUND ; As work starts on a Manhattan memorial garden for British victims of 11 September, Louis Jebb meets the unlikely, yet well-connected couple masterminding the scheme
The project is the latest in a line of work which goes back to shortly after the Bannermans first met in Edinburgh, in the early 1980s. Isabel Eustace, a softly spoken Pre-Raphaelite beauty, was an undergraduate at the university, reading history and art history; Julian Bannerman, ebullient, fluent and trained in the arts ancient and modern, had already ventured into garden design and was running Bannermans, a bar and restaurant in the heart of the city's Old Town. They were married in 1983 and perfected their art by making a garden of their own at the Ivy, in Chippenham. Until the Bannermans took it on, the Ivy had seemed a hopeless case. It was a ravishing Grade I Baroque house in poor condition, its remaining plot of land hemmed in on two sides by Chippenham's ring road. For years an owner could not be found. But where others feared to walk, the Bannermans bravely moved in and - largely with their own hands - brought a Sleeping Beauty house back to waking life and created a garden which - with its ranks of pleached limes and rich herbaceous borders - caught the Zeitgeist of softened, slightly lush, formality in 1980s country-house gardens. Whether they are making gardens formal or romantic, the Bannermans - who won a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1994 - are gardeners of ideas, in tune with the spirit of where their work. At Highgrove they have made two gardens for the Prince of Wales, with ferneries, temple groves and a green oak monument. The Prince gave the Bannermans his Royal warrant in 2002 and has come on board as patron of the garden in New York.
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A haven for both Hons and rebels The Cotswold lawns on which the Mitford children played are now the backdrop for an exhibition of modern sculpture. Words by Mary Keen
When [Rosie Taylor] moved in three years ago, the garden was the least of her worries. But with the help of Julian and Isabel Bannerman, famous for their work in the Prince of Wales' garden at Highgrove, the place has been transformed into a sunny and welcoming family house set in idyllic grounds. Huge high-profile gardens are the Bannerman thing (they are currently enlarging the Highgrove stumpery, as well as working for Lord Cholmondeley at Houghton) but they can also \"do\" domestic like no one else because they know how to make a garden comfortable. And, now that the gardens are open to the public until July 7, to host an exhibition of modern sculpture in the garden, there is a rare chance to see the sort of work that these designers create for their private clients. To the west of the house, where the [Nancy Mitford] family drive used to be, there is a huge stone terrace, surrounded on three sides by the house. Outside the kitchen there is room for a table to eat and another for Ping-Pong, as well as a collection of large pots filled with plants such as angelica. Rosie's children grow sunflowers in the beds which are crammed with more roses. Beyond all this are banks. \"We became so bored of banks and the mowing,\" Isabel says, so they made two sloping parterres with compartments for vegetables and cut flowers. Tradition with an idiosyncratic twist is a favourite Bannerman trick. On the lawn above, there are phalanxes of the great white cherry, Tai Haku, under wedges of yew which disguise more banks.
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DESIGNING DUO
The grand schemes of landscape designers Julian Bannerman and Isabel Bannerman have taken root in some of England's most famous estates. In addition to winning a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1994, the husband-and-wife team have been quietly garnering one of the most impressive client lists around.
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TROPIC OF CORWALL
IN SEPTEMBER 2011, something rather special awaited anyone leafing through the real-estate advertisements in Country Life, the British magazine that has been the best resource for those seeking classic English properties for more than a century. The husband and wife established themselves in the '90s as the go-to landscape designers for aristocrats, plutocrats and royalty - their client list has included the Prince of Wales (at Highgrove), Lord Rothschild (Waddesdon Manor), John Paul Getty Jr. [...]the Bannermans rely on demonstrative and dramatic flowers, planted en masse for theatrical effect: shrub roses and rambling roses, huge petaled peonies, exotic echiums and fragrant lilies - scent is vital to their style - in terracotta pots on terraces. The diaphanous charms of lunaria and hesperis add a certain softness, as do frothy pink thalictrums (up to nine feet tall here) and various members of the Queen Anne's lace tribe of umbellifers, with their umbrella-like sprays of flowers.
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