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Obituary: Rosemary Verey
2001
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In 1951 Cecil Verey made the house over to his son, and Rosemary, [David Verey] and their young family moved in. \"Children - four of them by 1949 - and horses claimed more of my attention than gardening,\" she wrote. \"But I was becoming aware of the garden and its seasons.\" An early decision was to grass over her mother-in-law's borders by the house in a bid to rid them of ground elder and bindweed (these were the days before Round Up), as well as to make space for the children to ride their ponies. Then, in 1961, David Verey invited Percy Cane to Barnsley to give advice and Rosemary was galvanised into action. She set about creating the kaleidoscopic beds that were to become the hallmark of her planting style. When David Verey died in 1984 Rosemary considered leaving Barnsley but eventually realised she had better make the garden her full-time career. She started designing planting schemes for the rich and famous in both Britain and America. One day at breakfast she answered the telephone to a caller claiming to be the Prince of Wales wanting to visit the garden. Perfectly capable of leg-pulling herself, she responded with a sharp, \"Oh come on, it's too early in the morning for jokes.\" The Prince laughed, came to Barnsley and invited [Rosemary Verey] to advise him on the garden at Highgrove. Other clients included Sir Elton John, Princess Michael of Kent, the Marquess of Bute and the New York Botanic Garden. Rosemary Verey enjoyed writing, loved to feel she was communicating all the joy that gardening brought to her life. \"It's beautiful,\" she told Helen Penn, who interviewed her for a BBC book to accompany the television series An Englishwoman's Garden, \"and I'd like to explain it.\" This she did in a string of books that culminated in what she called \"The Barnsley Book\" (Rosemary Verey's Making of a Garden, 1995). She continued writing until the end of her life. At least two pieces will be published posthumously: a chapter in Gardens of Inspiration (due to be published by BBC Books in September), and the \"Expert Insight\" she gave for the NGS 75th Anniversary book Making Gardens (Cassell, October).
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