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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Title: MAKING A GARDEN ON A GREEK HILLSIDE. Author: Jaqueline M. Tyrwhitt. Publisher: Denise Harvey (Limni, Evia, Greece). ISBN 960-7120-14-0 (Paperback). ISBN 960-7120-13-2(Clothbound). Published 1998. Price: Around 22 Euros. Source. Publisher. Also Medditerranean Garden Society, POBox14, 190-02 Peania, GR. MAKING A GARDEN ON A GREEK HILLSIDE - THE REVIEW. Having just moved to Crete and been presented with a patch of Cretan hillside around our new house, I leaped at the chance to read and review this book. Jacky Tyrwhitt was an internationally-known town planner, Harvard professor and keen plantswoman. She bought a plot of land near Athens in 1962, where she built a house and created a garden. She managed to acquire adjoining strips over the years which she sold on to friends, creating a small community known as Sparoza � �the place of the sparrows�. This book is created from notes she wrote during the last two years of her life. Sparoza, her former home, has subsequently become the headquarters of the Mediterranean Garden Society. The individual chapters reflect the happenings in her garden and the locality during each month of the year. Under the �events� subdivision we learn about what is going on in the surrounding area, any religious festivals or happenings in the olive groves, vineyards and countryside around Jacky�s home. The �jobs� section deals with tasks in the garden � planting, pruning, mulching, tidying up � very useful if you need to know when to prune your vines or plant your citrus trees. �Fauna� tells us about what animals and birds are passing through or resident during the month and �climate� reveals when the first thunderstorms are expected, how long the meltemi blows and when any frosts are likely to occur. What is likely to be of interest to most of us gardeners is the section on �Flora�. Jacky took the decision early on in her garden-making not to limit herself to the sole use of native Greek plants � sensibly enough, because most flower early and die back to an unattractive brown stubble. She researched and describes a palette of species likely to do well in Mediterranean conditions. These are listed under �native� or �introduced� species and each month she tells us what is currently in flower or looking particularly fine. Not only does Jacky give us the Latin name, but also its familiar one and, if available, its Greek one as well. Each has a short description giving information on colour, size, whether or not it is a good �doer� and sometimes even from where she obtained it. Thanks to this book and armed with a huge list of names in three languages, I visited a range of plant nurseries recently � only to discover to my dismay that very few plants are actually labelled here! However, I found Jacky Tyrwhitt�s book very enjoyable to read and a most useful starting point for our own garden. Now I�m looking for a book that tells me how to divide the 60 degree scree slope left by our builder into sturdy little terraces. Any suggestions? Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Denise Harvey (Publisher), 1998. ISBN 960-7120-14-0, paperback, pp. 266 with 82 line drawings by Derek Toms. This book is being reprinted and will be available again in June 2018 . Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside is written in the form of a diary by a remarkable woman, Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, or Jacky as she liked to be called by her friends. Her ‘love affair’ with Greece began when, during her long and brilliant career, a Ford Foundation Grant took her on a research project to that country; she was subsequently to spend her summers there, not only editing Ekistics , the journal of the Athens Centre of Ekistics, but also building a house and creating a garden at Sparoza, east of Athens. On her retirement she settled at Sparoza, which she bequeathed to the Goulandris Museum of Natural History. Jacky was born in South Africa while her father was working there and was brought back to London by her mother where she attended St. Paul’s Girls’ School, Hammersmith; after leaving school she took the General Horticultural Diploma and commenced training as an architect. But this was only the beginning: she went as a student gardener to train under Ellen Willmott at Warley Place, then worked for garden architects in London. She went on to become Assistant Organizer for the League of Industry, where she learnt to speak in public and to deal with employers and employees and, among other assignments, was sent to China and Russia to study the functioning and running of their factories. She continued to study town planning and reconstruction, not so much with an eye to ‘bricks and mortar’ but with the view that all planning should be aware of the needs of society as a whole and respond to its special demands. During the Second World War she became Director of Research at the School of Planning and Regional Reconstruction in London, a post she held for the next seven years; however, it was as Assistant then Associate Professor of Urban Design at Harvard University that she perhaps made her most notable contribution to humanity. All this and more is recounted in the clear and sympathetic preface by Sally Razelou – a plantswoman of no little consequence herself – who has tried to convey to us something of the brilliance of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s life. It seems curious to me that a woman of such talent and dedication received no official recognition for her enormous contribution to Town and Country Planning, but it may be that this is something she never sought herself. Although one gets the impression that she had a host of admiring friends who added greatly to her full life, she was obviously a ‘private’ person and perhaps did not look for worldly honours. Her love of animals, nature, the countryside, the Greek people among whom she chose to live and, of course, the garden she created were of very great importance to her and gave her an inner warmth and serenity which shine from the pages of this book. This is indeed a fascinating and exciting book – so many of us who love Greece but know it only superficially will be enchanted by the month-by- month descriptions of life and events in a Greek garden. These begin in September when, as the editors remind us, the ‘New Year’ in a mediterranean garden commences with the long-awaited rains which reawaken the earth after a parching and punishing summer. In her introduction Jaqueline Tyrwhitt tells of the hardships and difficulties that she encountered in acquiring the land and then making it viable, first for a house and then for a garden, the lack of water being one of her greatest worries. Two photographs, ‘before’ and ‘after’, are included which should give courage to anyone attempting to make a new garden in a similarly daunting landscape. She describes the local festivals, the jobs (agricultural as well as domestic), the fauna and the climate, as well as giving us the most detailed lists of plants flowering each month in her garden, divided into native and imported species. These will be of profound interest to all of us living in a mediterranean climate region; their nomenclature has been carefully brought up to date by Professor William Stearn. In all, over 500 indigenous and exotic plants are carefully and lovingly described, with nearly a whole page being given to the fabled mandrake of which she was justly proud. (This plant was supposed to scream when pulled from the earth, thus giving rise to the superstition that it was much loved by witches and used by them for making their nefarious potions.) As Jacky herself stated, she wrote this book to assist other people wishing to make gardens in a Mediterranean climate. She realised that anything she managed to grow in the inhospitable conditions of a Greek stony hillside would almost certainly grow much better elsewhere. Although she was never puritanical about planting only native species, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt was a pioneer in the recognition that native plants are best adapted to thrive in mediterranean conditions; in her article on ‘The Use of Greek Plants in the Greek Landscape’, included as an appendix in this book, she writes of her dismay at the increasing use of ‘non-Greek exotic trees, plants and shrubs around tourist and sea-side establishments, and even in archaeological sites and reafforestation areas.’ Her warning that ‘the use of non-native plants can disturb, irrevocably, the delicate traditional balance between flora and fauna’ remains timely. It is thus highly fitting that her house and garden were later to become the headquarters of the Mediterranean Garden Society. I was really captivated by this book, brought together and edited by Sally Razelou, the present incumbent at Sparoza, and Denise Harvey, its publisher: both of them deserve accolades for so lovingly persevering in bringing about its publication. Their lively notes and appendices add considerably to the reader’s enjoyment, as do the charming drawings by Derek Toms. Sally Razelou will, of course, be known to all our members as the first President of the Mediterranean Garden Society. Although it is over a year since I visited Sparoza, I remember vividly the exciting garden she has recreated, so full of the plants lovingly collected by Jaqueline herself. I am quite sure that Sally’s and Denise’s work will not go unrewarded and that people from all over the Mediterranean region, and elsewhere, will clamour to own a copy of this immensely readable and instructive book. I.J.M. It is on the initiative of the Mediterranean Garden Society that Jacky's book has now been published by one of its founder members. The publisher generously offers the royalties of the sales of the book as a donation to the Society. Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s house is now the legal headquarters of the Society and the garden is known as the MGS garden at Sparoza. ISBN 960-7120-14-0, paperback, pp. 266, price €18.00. Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside can be purchased directly from the publisher Denise Harvey, 340 05 Limni, Evia, Greece. Tel./fax: +30 22279 31154 Email. Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside by Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Denise Harvey (Publisher), 1998. ISBN 960-7120-14-0, paperback, pp. 266 with 82 line drawings by Derek Toms. This book is being reprinted and will be available again in June 2018 . Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside is written in the form of a diary by a remarkable woman, Mary Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, or Jacky as she liked to be called by her friends. Her ‘love affair’ with Greece began when, during her long and brilliant career, a Ford Foundation Grant took her on a research project to that country; she was subsequently to spend her summers there, not only editing Ekistics , the journal of the Athens Centre of Ekistics, but also building a house and creating a garden at Sparoza, east of Athens. On her retirement she settled at Sparoza, which she bequeathed to the Goulandris Museum of Natural History. Jacky was born in South Africa while her father was working there and was brought back to London by her mother where she attended St. Paul’s Girls’ School, Hammersmith; after leaving school she took the General Horticultural Diploma and commenced training as an architect. But this was only the beginning: she went as a student gardener to train under Ellen Willmott at Warley Place, then worked for garden architects in London. She went on to become Assistant Organizer for the League of Industry, where she learnt to speak in public and to deal with employers and employees and, among other assignments, was sent to China and Russia to study the functioning and running of their factories. She continued to study town planning and reconstruction, not so much with an eye to ‘bricks and mortar’ but with the view that all planning should be aware of the needs of society as a whole and respond to its special demands. During the Second World War she became Director of Research at the School of Planning and Regional Reconstruction in London, a post she held for the next seven years; however, it was as Assistant then Associate Professor of Urban Design at Harvard University that she perhaps made her most notable contribution to humanity. All this and more is recounted in the clear and sympathetic preface by Sally Razelou – a plantswoman of no little consequence herself – who has tried to convey to us something of the brilliance of Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s life. It seems curious to me that a woman of such talent and dedication received no official recognition for her enormous contribution to Town and Country Planning, but it may be that this is something she never sought herself. Although one gets the impression that she had a host of admiring friends who added greatly to her full life, she was obviously a ‘private’ person and perhaps did not look for worldly honours. Her love of animals, nature, the countryside, the Greek people among whom she chose to live and, of course, the garden she created were of very great importance to her and gave her an inner warmth and serenity which shine from the pages of this book. This is indeed a fascinating and exciting book – so many of us who love Greece but know it only superficially will be enchanted by the month-by- month descriptions of life and events in a Greek garden. These begin in September when, as the editors remind us, the ‘New Year’ in a mediterranean garden commences with the long-awaited rains which reawaken the earth after a parching and punishing summer. In her introduction Jaqueline Tyrwhitt tells of the hardships and difficulties that she encountered in acquiring the land and then making it viable, first for a house and then for a garden, the lack of water being one of her greatest worries. Two photographs, ‘before’ and ‘after’, are included which should give courage to anyone attempting to make a new garden in a similarly daunting landscape. She describes the local festivals, the jobs (agricultural as well as domestic), the fauna and the climate, as well as giving us the most detailed lists of plants flowering each month in her garden, divided into native and imported species. These will be of profound interest to all of us living in a mediterranean climate region; their nomenclature has been carefully brought up to date by Professor William Stearn. In all, over 500 indigenous and exotic plants are carefully and lovingly described, with nearly a whole page being given to the fabled mandrake of which she was justly proud. (This plant was supposed to scream when pulled from the earth, thus giving rise to the superstition that it was much loved by witches and used by them for making their nefarious potions.) As Jacky herself stated, she wrote this book to assist other people wishing to make gardens in a Mediterranean climate. She realised that anything she managed to grow in the inhospitable conditions of a Greek stony hillside would almost certainly grow much better elsewhere. Although she was never puritanical about planting only native species, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt was a pioneer in the recognition that native plants are best adapted to thrive in mediterranean conditions; in her article on ‘The Use of Greek Plants in the Greek Landscape’, included as an appendix in this book, she writes of her dismay at the increasing use of ‘non-Greek exotic trees, plants and shrubs around tourist and sea-side establishments, and even in archaeological sites and reafforestation areas.’ Her warning that ‘the use of non-native plants can disturb, irrevocably, the delicate traditional balance between flora and fauna’ remains timely. It is thus highly fitting that her house and garden were later to become the headquarters of the Mediterranean Garden Society. I was really captivated by this book, brought together and edited by Sally Razelou, the present incumbent at Sparoza, and Denise Harvey, its publisher: both of them deserve accolades for so lovingly persevering in bringing about its publication. Their lively notes and appendices add considerably to the reader’s enjoyment, as do the charming drawings by Derek Toms. Sally Razelou will, of course, be known to all our members as the first President of the Mediterranean Garden Society. Although it is over a year since I visited Sparoza, I remember vividly the exciting garden she has recreated, so full of the plants lovingly collected by Jaqueline herself. I am quite sure that Sally’s and Denise’s work will not go unrewarded and that people from all over the Mediterranean region, and elsewhere, will clamour to own a copy of this immensely readable and instructive book. I.J.M. It is on the initiative of the Mediterranean Garden Society that Jacky's book has now been published by one of its founder members. The publisher generously offers the royalties of the sales of the book as a donation to the Society. Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s house is now the legal headquarters of the Society and the garden is known as the MGS garden at Sparoza. ISBN 960-7120-14-0, paperback, pp. 266, price €18.00. Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside can be purchased directly from the publisher Denise Harvey, 340 05 Limni, Evia, Greece. Tel./fax: +30 22279 31154 Email. Search AbeBooks. We're sorry; the page you requested could not be found. AbeBooks offers millions of new, used, rare and out-of-print books, as well as cheap textbooks from thousands of booksellers around the world. Shopping on AbeBooks is easy, safe and 100% secure - search for your book, purchase a copy via our secure checkout and the bookseller ships it straight to you. 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Her fist job, lasting two and a half years, was with a firm of garden architects in Vernon Square in London. She assisted in laying out some three hundred gardens for them. She was a sole surveyor, draughtsman and designer in the firm and soon realised she was being over-worked and under-paid. She was a night student as the London School of Economics as well. In 1929 she run the office of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor in Lincolns Inn. In 1931 she became Assistant Organiser for the Leaque of Industry. In 1935 she left the Leaque of Industry in order to study "the association of argiculture with industry" at Dartington Hall. In 1937 she spent nine months in Berlin, taking a course in town planning at the Techniche Hochschule. On her return to England she accepted a three-year Rowntree grant to study problems of town and country planning for the Town and Country Planning Association, preparing a social survey of Welwyn Garden City. At the same time she took a night course at the School of Planning and Regional Reconstruction under E.A.A. Rowse, obtaining an honours diploma. In 1941 E.A.A Rowse was called up and she replaced him as Director of research at the School of Planning and Regional Recostruction as well as Director of Studies at the School of Planning and Research for Regional Development. In 1945 she was invited by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the American Office of War Information to lecture on British town planning in war conditions. From 1955-56 she was at Harvard Univercity, first at Assistant Professor of City Planning and from 1958 as Associate Professor of Urban Design. She was UN advisor in Indonesia to establish a new programme in city and regional planning in 1960, and, in 1961-62 a Ford Foundation grant enable her to engage in a research project, "The city of the future", at the Athens Centre of Ekistics. She was a brilliant editor. Apart from the works of "Geddes" and "Giedion", which she edited, translated and reissued, she edited and translated Doxiadis' great work "Architectural space in ancient Greece" which was published in English in 1972. Although she had retired from her professorship at Harvard in 1969 and had the absorbing interest of her garden at Sparoza, she taught at the Graduate School of the Ekistics until 1972 and had a full-time appointment as editor of "Ekistics" from 1969-72, after which she was consultant editor until her death. The hillsides of Attica are stony and arid. Over-grazed in the past by goats and sheep, they have few trees and are covered in dense, prickly scrub. Relentless sun and often strong winds prevail for five months of the year, and in the spring and autumn months the miracle of the extraordinary variety and beauty of the Greek flora is revealed to the discerning eye. It was on such a hillside that the English woman Jaqueline Tyrwhitt - Harvard University professor, town planner of international renown and amateur botanist - chose to make a garden. This book is the story of the making of that garden and a distillation of what she learnt and observed about the plants -both native and introduced- she grew there, a book which she wrote (to use her own words) "to assist other people wishing to make gardens in places with a "Mediterranean climate", believing that anything that grew under the difficult conditions prevailing on this Greek hillside would be almost certain to grow better elsewhere". Το βιβλιοπωλείο "Λεμόνι" Ξεκίνησε την λειτουργία του τον Μάιο του 1998. Βρίσκεται στο ιστορικό κέντρο της Αθήνας στην περιοχή του θησείου, στον πεζόδρομο της οδού Ηρακλειδών. Επιλέγει πάντα τους καλύτερους τίτλους απο την ελληνική βιβλιογραφία και τις νέες εκδόσεις. Διαθέτει άρτια ενημέρωση στην ποίηση στη φιλοσοφία και στη λογοτεχνία και οργανώνει σε τακτά διαστήματα παρουσιάσεις βιβλίων από συγγραφείς, καθώς και εκθέσεις εικαστικών καλλιτεχνών. Το ηλεκτρονικό μας κατάστημα ενημερώνεται από εμάς τους ίδιους.