Heligan
A Portrait of the Lost Gardens
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-7528-6514-0 (ISBN)
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-6514-0 (9780752865140)
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Tom Petherick is an acclaimed author and broadcaster and led the gardening team that undertook the stunning restoration of the lost Gardens of Heligan. He took responsibility for the productive gardens at Heligan 1993-6 before becoming a commercial, organic market gardener and consultant. He was lured back to Heligan to help the horticultural team and is now through his journalism and book writing helping to promote the garden. Melanie Eclare is one of Britain's leading garden photographers. She has photographed three previous books and has contributed illustrated features to all the major home interest magazines. She cooperated with her husband Tom Petherick on HELIGAN: A PORTRAIT OF THE LOST GARDENS. Tim Smit was born in 1954 in Scheveningen, Holland, and educated in the UK. After graduating from Durham University he worked as a county archaeologist before spending ten years as a record producer and composer, successful in Europe, the USA and Japan. In 1987 he and his family moved to Cornwall where, with John Nelson, he was to discover Heligan.