The Chatsworth Garden Diary
- ISBN-10
- 0711226253
- ISBN-13
- 9780711226258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-08
- Publisher
- White Lion Publishing
- Authors
- Gary Rogers, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
Description
This diary is filled with wonderful images of the glorious landscape andarden at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, including parterres and vistas, water inll its forms, rockeries and trees, a productive kitchen garden and superbtaturary, as well as magnificent borders. Each photograph is captioned withhe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's lively and informative text. Each weekas a full-page colour photograph and the diary includes national andeligious holidays and astronomical information. Beautifully produced ineek-to-view format with a colour picture on every spread, it has a freshesign, generously laid out, with plenty of room to write. The Dowageruchess of Devonshire, widow of the 11th Duke, has known and loved Chatsworthor over half a century and probably knows it better than anyone else. She ishe youngest of the seven children of the second Lord Redesdale, and sisterf the writers Nancy and Jessica Mitford and Diana Mosley. She herself is theuthor of several books, which include the phenomenally successful "Countingy The Garden at Chatsworth".
