A Garden Well Placed

The Story of Helmingham and Other Gardens

Xa Tollemache, Fergus Garrett

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Pimpernel Press Ltd
12 May 2022

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Xa Tollemache started her gardening life when she moved into Helmingham Hall in Suffolk in 1975, as a young wife and mother. She spent the next twenty years learning and consequently developing and improving the gardens. It was Helmingham, she always insists, that taught her how to garden - to such effect that in 1996 she was in a position to start her garden design practice.

Xa Tollemache describes this book, her first, as 'a story book, the tale of the love story between me and the garden at Helmingham'. It is also a record of her career as a garden designer, exemplified by eleven other gardens, large and small, on which she has worked her design magic: her first Chelsea Flower Show garden (""I was described as 'just an amateur', which was true - but I did get a Gold Medal!""); and gardens in Dunbeath, Caithness; Castle Hill, Devon; Cholmondley, Cheshire; Bighton, Hampshire; Wilton, Wiltshire; Aldeburgh, Suffolk; Bell House, Suffolk; Stone House, Suffolk; RHS Hyde Hall, Essex - and the garden at her new home, Framsden Hall in Suffolk.

By: Xa Tollemache
Foreword by: Fergus Garrett
Imprint: Pimpernel Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9781910258804
ISBN 10: 1910258806
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 12 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Xa Tollemache learned how to garden, and how to design gardens, at her new home, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk. She set up her garden design practice in 1996, and one of the very first gardens she designed as a professional was the Evening Standard garden for the 1997 Chelsea Flower Show - for which she won a Gold Medal. She has since designed two more medal-winning gardens for Chelsea, as well as gardens all over the UK and in Europe and the US. She is currently a Member of the Council of the RHS, Chair of the Gardens Committee, a Member of the Horticulture Board and an RHS Judge. Fergus Garrett was chosen by Christopher Lloyd as his head gardener at Dixter in 1992. He worked closely with Christo until Lloyd's death in 2006. He is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, and also combines his full-time, hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing all over the world. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS in 2015 and in 2019, the coveted Victoria Medal of Honour.

Reviews for A Garden Well Placed: The Story of Helmingham and Other Gardens

Xa Tollemache is an innately sensitive garden designer...She reads the scene so beautifully well, embracing the qualities of history, landscape, architecture and people, within her work. -- Fergus Garrett