Thomas Hobbs Garden Design
Visionary garden impresario thomas hobbs offers his original and trendsetting treatises on garden design.
Thomas hobbs garden design. A visit to thomas hobbs garden. A 20 acre farm now known as simply the farm. In inspiring essays such as portable drams staging incidents and zonal denial hobbs uses examples from exceptional gardens throughout.
His is not a typical west coast home by any stretch. There close to the united states border they found it. He was born obsessed with plants and had his first greenhouse at age six.
Thomas hobbs is an internationally acclaimed impresario of garden and floral design. Arguably vancouver s most famous gardener and garden personality thomas hobbs owns southlands nursery and has published two books. I always admired the garden of thomas hobbs and brent beattie in the pages of garden magazines.
When thomas hobbs and partner brent beattie ran out of garden space after two decades in their point grey home they spent a year looking in the fraser valley for a wider canvas. I love their new garden. Very well illustrated large horizontal quarto pp 152 a slight adhesion damage to the front endpaper otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper.
Netclimber web design. Every page is a spread of texture and colour that astonishes and delights. I was lucky enough to visit his garden this summer on a vancouver hardy plant group tour and saw first hand the jewels that his latest book describes.
Hobbs book jacket bio describes him as an impresario of garden and floral design the sobriquet is apt. This book is as fulsomely rich an entertainment as opera. He owns and operates southlands nursery in vancouver canada and his private garden has been featured in numerous gardening magazines including horticulture house.