Duftmagie: Notizen eines Gärtners von Isabel Bannerman (englisch) Hardcover-Buch

Scent Magic

by Isabel Bannerman, Richard E. Grant

A beautifully written, highly personal account of the gardening year

FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New

Publisher Description

In Scent Magic, a book which is at once romantic and extremely practical, plantswoman, designer and garden-maker extraordinaire Isobel Bannerman immerses the reader in the luscious scents of the fragrant garden through a warmly written diary of her year's gardening; and combines this with an encyclopaedic reference work of the best aromatic plants to grow throughout the year. Whether evoking the freshly baked sponge smell emanating from wisteria, describing 'Stanwell Perpetual' as 'the kind of rose that would taste of apricot and raspberries swirled together', or championing the magic of the Himalayan cowslip, 'scented profoundly and deliciously like the dark vault of a Damascus spice merchant', the glorious poetry of her descriptions is here joined with a lifetime's experience of gardening and plant cultivation.

Author Biography

Isabel Bannerman was born in London in 1962, the youngest of five children. She began gardening when, as a university student, she met Julian Bannerman, owner of Bannerman's Bar in Edinburgh. Together they moved to a derelict baroque mansion in Wiltshire and camped whilst restoring  the house and starting to design gardens and garden buildings for a living. With a lot of luck and hard work they established a practice, winning Gold Medals at Chelsea and working for HRH The Prince of Wales and clients from the worlds of fashion and film. Isabel has taken photographs since she was at school and began making her particular style of botanical scans in 2003. She has had four solo shows of her work, which is in the collections of Jasper Conran, and Richard E Grant. She writes occasional gardening pieces for the Telegraph and Sunday Times. She wrote and photographed Landscape Of Dreams (Pimpernel Press, 2016), describing fourteen gardens created by the Bannermans and their way of working together. Scent Magic is her second book, and is the result of ten years researching and note-taking on her favourite subject, scent in the garden. 

Review

"Essentially Scent Magic is a series of musings: lyrical, intimate, unique, often random, always interesting...part private reflection, part plant history. In her preface Bannerman warns: 'information is everywhere, information is cheap, so this book is not really about information...the intention is simply to encourage curiosity.' In that she succeeds brilliantly." -- Katie Campbell * Hortus *
"A gloriously sensual diary of her garden's smells, magically charting the turning of a growing year from the intense frankincense-like perfume of the winter-flowering witchhazel, Hamamelis 'Advent', to the sweet summer fruitiness of honeysuckle. A book to treasure." * Irish Times Gardening Books of the Year *
"There's a runaway winner among the gardening books this year: Scent Magic: Notes from a Gardener. It's intoxicating; there's never been a book quite like it...Any gardener will come away from this book full of excited plans for planting but it is no less enthralling for those who merely enjoy gardens, those who have sensuality in life, which is to say, this book would make a genuinely life-enhancing present for almost anybody." -- David Sexton * Evening Standard Best Gardening Books for 2019 *
"Highly poetic...Isabel Bannerman has written a book that almost incidentally describes plants' perfumes while giving a massively informative tour of her garden and of garden plants in general. She is the perfect hostess - intelligent, travelled, well-connected, charming, intimate, wry, a hard-drinking and altogether delightful character." * The Times *
"In this lyrical book, [Bannerman] leads us by the nose...writing the way she plants, to lush effect. The photographs...and plant portraits are wondrous." * Saga magazine *
"The author explores the smells of the plant kingdom in her own inimitable style, combining poetic descriptions with hands-on, practical knowledge." * Irish News Best Gardening Books of the Year *
"Sumptuous." * The Herald (Scotland) *
"I was thoroughly transported...it's as much a memoir through a lifetime of appreciating the fragrance of the seasons as it is a plant guide. This is a beautiful and moving book, something to linger over, to cherish — and to remind us, as Bannerman writes, 'this is a great day to inhale'." * The New York Times Book Review *
"Part diary and part practical guide to perfumed plants, illustrated with [the author's] own photographs, it is a dream of a book, wandering off down scented pathways of memories, moods and moments past." * Sunday Times - Gardening Book of the Year *
"Follows its nose to some intriguing places." * Evening Standard *
"Evocative descriptions of favourite scented plants are interspersed through the diary-like text, with the author's own photographs lighting up the pages. A book to lose yourself in."  * House & Garden *
"There hasn't been a decent book on the notoriously elusive and subjective topic of garden scents for more than 20 years, so it is pleasant to be able wholeheartedly to recommend Scent Magic...a stylish, highly personal, scientifically illuminating account - part diary, part plant description - of her encounters with scented plants, both actual and in memory, through the course of one year." -- Ursula Buchan * Spectator *
"Part-practical handbook, part-autobiography, part-philosophical reflection on art and Nature...this book is an absolute feast, not only for gardeners, but for anyone interested in art and Nature and in living well." -- John Hoyland * Country Life *
"A collection of notes, memories and beautifully detailed observations of fragrance throughout the year....This has to be one of the most beautifully written pieces I have read in a long time...it brings to mind the writing of Vita Sackville West. The book is illustrated with gorgeous garden photography by the author and many of Isabel's striking botanical portraits. Scent Magic is a wonderfully romantic book and should sit on the book shelf of anyone who likes to sit and bask in the seasons as they pass. It is a love letter to the easily missed details in the gardening year and shows how plants can seep into every corner of life." * Gardens Illustrated *

Details ISBN1910258490 Author Richard E. Grant Publisher Pimpernel Press Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 1910258490 ISBN-13 9781910258491 Format Hardcover Imprint Pimpernel Press Ltd Subtitle Notes from a Gardener Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 256 DEWEY 712.6092 Short Title Scent Magic Language English UK Release Date 2019-10-03 Publication Date 2019-10-03 NZ Release Date 2019-10-03 Illustrations 140 Halftones, color Audience General AU Release Date 2019-09-30

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• Condition: Neu
• ISBN-13: 9781910258491
• Type: NA
• Publication Name: NA
• ISBN: 9781910258491
• Publication Year: 2019
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Book Title: Scent Magic: Notes from a Gardener
• Item Height: 270mm
• Author: Isabel Bannerman
• Publisher: Pimpernel Press LTD
• Topic: Gardening, Gardens, Books
• Item Width: 210mm
• Number of Pages: 256 Pages

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