A classic memoir by Russell Page, one of the 20th Century's most famous landscape gardeners, describing the author's training and the development of his many celebrated gardens.
Russell Page became a professional garden designer in 1928 after
studying painting at the Slade School, University of London, and in
Paris. He designed a great variety of gardens in Europe, the Middle
East, North and South America, ranging from small cottage and town
gardens to elaborate layouts including the Battersea Festival
Gardens in 1952. He was one of only three Englishmen to have
received a medal from the French Academy of Architecture.
Russell Page died in January 1985. After his death The Times wrote,
"In a world in which the gifted amateur is no longer the guiding
light in the design of gardens, and in which highly qualified
professionals prevail, Russell Page stood out as one of those great
originals, for which England has been famous."
Russell Page was one of the great English landscape architects of
this century...His book The Education of a Gardener remains, in my
view, the best combined guide to planting and designing a garden
ever written, with inspiration for every sort of gardener, wherever
they are placed. The last chapter on his own dream garden is
brilliant
*Independent*
Probably the most influential 20th-century book on garden design...
It is the universality of its lessons that is the great strength of
his book
*Country Life*
Page has written an astonishingly beautiful book about his
craft
*Doris Lessing*
Page had a great talent and a sensitivity not only to different
types of flora and to different climates, but also to the
architectural requirements of gardens, both large and small...
Combining a painter's eye (his only formal training was in art)
with a pragmatic and encyclopedic knowledge of horticulture, he
produced gardens that were - are -extraordinarily lovely
*New York Times*
Russell Page, admittedly a bit of a mystic, is pretty much out
there by himself with his verdant heart and green digits
*Michael Pollan*
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