Anne Beswick responds to Sara Maitland on beauty and gardens
Anne Beswick responds to Sara Maitland’s comments on Anne Warehams article on beauty and gardens.
Sara Maitland on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Sara Maitland comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Anne Beswick on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Anne Beswick comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Andrew Lawson on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Andrew Lawson comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Ian Kitson on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Ian Kitson comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Noel Kingsbury on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Noel Kingsbury comments on “The love that dare not speak its name” by Anne Wareham
A Tribute to Linnaeus designed by Ulf Nordfiell reviewed by Anne Wareham
“The light echoes of Swedish countryside were one thing, but the effort to bring the Swedish botanist into the picture was the usual over literal, over ‘spelt out’ stuff…”
Bridget Rosewell on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Bridget Rosewell comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Anne Wareham on “Yes, Gardens can be works of art”
“Indeed, I do invite intellectual engagment and I would love that discussion to begin. So far it hasn’t – and perhaps that might once been for lack of a place to have such discussion. But now we have thinkingardens, where uninhibited debate and discussion can and does happen.”
The love that dare not speak its name
by Anne Wareham.
On Beauty and Gardens –
“….So often when I visit a garden I am confronted with the horrifically ugly, and that seems to me to make a mockery of our materials, which are the best the world can offer.”
Andrew Wilson on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Andrew Wilson responds to Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Germaine Greer: Yes, Gardens can be works of art – but you’d never know it from the Chelsea Flower show.
by Germaine Greer.
“Most of our best-known, most-visited gardens are merely pretty, or, worse, picturesque…”
with responses by Anne Wareham, Andrew Wilson, Leigh Hunt, Amanda Patton.
Review of Veddw House Garden by Robin White
“If I were to give feedback about the garden…I would say that I would like to see this made sense of…”
Is a Garden an Artwork?
Debated at the oxford Literary Festival 2007.
Reviewed by Matthew Appleby with comments by Anne Wareham.
“I loathe places like Hestercombe, but then on the other hand you have places like the Barbara Hepworth Garden which is more of an outdoor gallery.”
Recent Posts from: Veddw
I’ve fallen in love with these.
I love my garden, I do. It’s at the heart of my life. But just recently I’ve been drawn back and back to a windowsill with some sweet dwarf pelargoniums.
Favour the Ferns
Many years ago The Financial Times sent me to do a feature on the RHS ‘Flower Show’ at Tatton Park . I was totally naïve and had no idea what I was supposed to do or to write about. So my excitement was tempered by acute anxiety. The term ‘imposter syndrome’ could have been invented for me. […]
Snowdrop mania is coming…
In the UK, right now, the horticultural world is about to drive us all mad with snowdrops. Pictures of. Articles about. Gardens with them. Anything people can think of to bash us over the head with snowdrops.
Brilliant Brecon
Recently we made a visit to Brecon. This is not far from us, in case anyone was getting over excited about the possibility that I might have been travelling again. It’s in Wales, in the Brecon Beacons, recently re-christened Bannau Brycheiniog.
You should have been here Next Year
Charles made a complaint recently when we were walking in the garden.
When I complained about him complaining he told me that it was good for me to have complaints about the planting.
