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Rosemary Verey: Queen of the English Country Garden

Barnsley House in the Cotswolds, England, which is now a luxury boutique hotel and restaurant.

Queen of the Traditional English Country Garden December 21, 1918 Today is the birthday of the English garden designer, lecturer, prolific garden writer, and one of the greatest gardeners of the 20th century, Rosemary Verey. Regarded as the “Queen of the Traditional English Country Garden,” Rosemary’s garden masterpiece is a blend of nature and geometry,…

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Classic Garden Design by Rosemary Verey This book came out in 1989, and the subtitle is How to Adapt and Recreate Garden Features of the Past. Rosemary Verey’s book Classic Garden Design (1984) shows how much she learned from various past gardens, with their topiary, knot gardens, and…