Rosemary Verey

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Rosemary Verey (born December 21, 1918 in Gillingham, Brompton , Kent as Isabel Rosemary Baird Sandilands , † May 31, 2001 in the Chelsea Memorial Hospital London ) was an English landscape gardener.

Life

Rosemary Verey was the youngest of four children of naval officer Prescott Sandilands (1878-1956) and Gladys Baird (nee Murton). She had lived at Eversley Boarding School in Folkestone since she was ten , where she graduated from high school. She then studied business administration and mathematics at University College London with Hugh Gaitskill , among others , but broke off her studies without a degree to make a friend of the architectural historian David Cecil Wynter Verey (1912 / 13–1984), son of pastor Henry Verey, at the age of 21 to marry her brother. Verey described the marriage as "amicable".

In 1940, during her first pregnancy, Verey lived with her in-laws for a while at Barnsley House in the Cotswolds near Cirencester . Barnsley House was built by Brereton Bouchier, the local landowner, in 1697 in the 17th century William-and-Mary style . After his wife's death in 1690 and his remarrying, he moved to the newly-built Barnsley Park mansion and the house served as a rectory until 1932, when Barnsley and Bibury parishes were merged. Cecil Henry and Linda Verey, Rosemary Verey's in-laws, bought the house in 1939. After David Verey, who had served with the Royal Fusiliers , returned from the war , the couple moved to Barnsley House in 1951 , the parents-in-law moved into the widow's residence . From then on, Rosemary Verey devoted herself to hunting, affairs, tennis and finally the upbringing of her four children, Charles (* 1940), Christopher (* 1942), Veronica (* 1947) and Davina (* 1949). She collected historical gardening books. Among her friends was the author John Fowles . She also organized horse riding events and the local pony club meetings.

Without formal training as a gardener or landscape architect, Rosemary Verey began gardening in Barnsley in 1951 at the suggestion of her husband after she was no longer able to participate in the fox hunt after a riding accident . She was advised by the garden architect Percy Cane . At Barnsley House, she established the Gertrude Jekyll walled garden, which was walled by Charles Coxwell in 1770, and an ornamental kitchen garden inspired by the garden of Villandry Castle on the Loire and ideas of William Lawson , a 17th century gardener. It was divided by cross-shaped paths, the vegetable patches were bordered with low box hedges. Also famous was a long pergola overgrown with laburnum ('Laburnum walk'), planted under with ornamental onions , an idea that she had adopted from the Dutch gardener van Tubergen. In 1962 her husband moved a classical temple in Tuscan order for her from the nearby Fairford Park estate , which had been demolished in 1951. The temple, probably designed by William Eames around 1770, is now a listed building. The design of this garden area goes back to Gay Hellyer. There was also a neo-Gothic garden decoration and a pond with water lilies. The 1.2 hectare garden had been open to paying visitors since the 1980s and was one of the most visited gardens in England. In 1989 it was "Garden of the Year" ( Historic Houses Association ). Verey set up a nursery that sold surplus plants to visitors.

After the death of her husband after 55 years of marriage, Verey designed private gardens in Great Britain and the United States from 1984. Art historian Roy Strong , former director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, wants to attribute this to the influence of interior designer David Vicary , who designed the Wilton House fountain, among other things. The garden designer John Hill (Sherbourbe Gardens, Gloucestershire) often drew for the practical implementation. She herself named Russell Page and Arthur Hellyer among the gardeners who influenced and helped her.

Verey wrote numerous gardening books, mostly picture books, showing private gardens in England and the USA, often in collaboration with the photographer Andrew Lawson . Verey has also contributed to Country Life and Kitchen Gardener magazines . In numerous lecture tours on the east coast of the USA, she propagated the classic "English country garden" and established her reputation as the last of the great English garden designers. Wealthy Americans were impressed by her demeanor and her contacts with the British aristocracy and royalty. The designer Hardy Amies , an avid rose grower, designed her wardrobe for lecture tours. She also appeared on television.

US volunteers were able to work in Barnsley and visit other English gardens under their guidance. This was done among others by Gregory Long, later director of the Botanical Gardens in New York ; Caroline Burgess, later director of Stonecrop Gardens, and attorney Barbara Paul Robinson, who subsequently published articles in gardening magazines spreading Verey's views. Nevertheless, the garden has become increasingly overgrown in recent years, which Verey called her "meadow style".

Verey insisted strongly that her American volunteers knew the Latin names of plants, but readily admitted that when she was unable to identify the plants, at the suggestion of her husband, she invented names. After Lane Fox, however, common garden plants were also unknown to her. One of her best-known statements was: "To be boring is a sin. On the other hand, it was of course permissible to use other people's ideas. If she was asked about a plant disease she was unfamiliar with, she recommended digging up the infected plant, throwing it away and just a new one to buy.

In 1987 Verey moved to the widow's residence "The Close", where she laid out a new small garden. Simon Verity set up an artificial grotto for them at the Conservatory. She was buried in Cirencester, and the sometimes critical funeral orators included Roy Strong and the photographer Andrew Lawson.

Vevey is described by Roy Strong as revealing, Penelope Hobhouse found Verey decisive and intimidating, especially towards laypeople and beginners, Lane Fox as arrogant. Barbara Paul Robinson describes them as "sometimes rough". She was considered the “ultimate establishment designer, a Shire's lady in pearls and quilted jacket”. In fact, she was well coiffed when working in the garden, wore a pearl necklace and a silk dress and thus fulfilled every cliché of an English country noblewoman. She enjoyed her American fame very much. Christopher Lloyd was one of her friends, but he was repeatedly annoyed that she treated the young, handsome budding gardeners, whom he liked to surround himself with, as "staff" and snapped at them when he was not in the room.

After Verey's death, Barnsley House was looked after by her son Charles. Rupert Pendered and Tim Haigh bought it and turned it into a luxury hotel, the garden has not been open to the public since September 2002. A biography of Verey by Barbara Paul Robinson under the title "Rosemary Verey: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Gardener" is in preparation (David R. Godine).

style

Verey's style was traditional and derivative: she designed elegant “English cottage gardens ” that stood between the traditions of the Arts and Crafts Movement , especially of Gertrude Jekyll , and the classic cottage gardens with long flower borders (“English classical revival style”) and adapted motifs the gardens of English mansions and French castles for smaller complexes. She herself describes Russell Page as an important role model and often refers to his book Education of a Gardener . The grounds were mostly structured by axial paths and contained classic design elements such as statues, garden houses, rose gardens, temples and pergolas. The strict lines were softened by an abundance of plants in delicate, coordinated pastel colors that overflowed the boxwood path borders. The main elements were borders made from perennials or mixed borders made from perennials and annuals and bulbous plants. All of this made them very popular, especially in the United States.

Precise planning was not her thing, so plants often had to be replaced because she had not ordered in time and the desired plants were therefore not available in sufficient numbers. She couldn't draw plans either. Since she had no knowledge of surveying, she worked with templates, a board construction helped her to create right angles, which of course is not suitable for larger areas. However, she found that it made no real difference: " On the ground, as long as you keep a Certain symmetry, you do not notice the discrepancies did seem obvious on paper." . The planting was also often determined on site by creating a plant list and then moving the plants back and forth until she thought she had achieved a satisfactory result. The instruction to transfer plans to scale was taken from Gervase Markham's “The Countrie Farm” from 1664 and appeared to her clients armed with cords, bamboo sticks and sand.

Gardens

A list of her gardens can be found in her book Rosemary Verey's Garden plans .

In the UK, she designed gardens for Elton John and discounts as well as a kitchen garden for Prince Charles ' Castle in Highgrove and a raised bed for Princess Michael of Kent in Nether Lypiatt Manor ( Gloucestershire ). The Marquise of Bath commissioned a rebate at Longleat House in Wiltshire. She also designed a “retro” potager for the garden of Mount Stuart House ( Isle of Bute ) . For the New York Botanical Garden she designed an ornamental kitchen garden in collaboration with the sculptor Simon Verity . In 1992 she designed a garden for the Chelsea Flower Show for the Evening Standard , which included a Diana Reynell- designed clam grotto and a statue of Simon Verity that belonged to her husband. Also nodes gardens to baroque model among its repertoire. She took the patterns from the books by Stephen Blake (1664) and Gervase Markham (1616). In Jacksonville , Florida, she decorated the parking lot of the local gardening club with a knot garden.

Most of their gardens are very labor-intensive, as Verey was used to having trained gardening staff available. Your gardens should be effective all year round, including winter.

Her favorite plants were boxwood , laburnum , geraniums , ornamental onions , bluebells , clematis and columbines .

Her most popular color combinations were gray and pink, yellow and blue, and a combination of different shades of yellow. A twelve-part color circle serves as the starting point for their design. Suggestions for horticultural color combinations could be provided by women's fashion, interior design and cut flowers. Verey combined colors with different speeds, green with deceleration, reds with acceleration.

Twelve-part color wheel, inside primary colors, second circle secondary colors, intermediate colors outside

She recommended choosing combinations of plants according to the color wheel. Combinations of the primary colors red, yellow and blue should be avoided. On the next page she describes the combination of yellow and blue as dynamic (“vibrant”). The secondary colors orange and purple would make a good mix, as would green and any other color. A mixture of a primary color with the opposite secondary color, for example blue and orange, yellow and violet, red and green, is "successful". However, “intermediate colors” belonging to the same primary color should not be mixed. However, she advises gardeners to ultimately rely on instinct.

The shape of the leaves is particularly important for monochrome combinations of plants. While some plants have a harmonious combination of flowers and leaves - magnolias and Christmas roses are applauded - this is rather unfortunate with others. Therefore, she recommends cutting off the flowers from rue , acacia and holy herb, as these did not match the color of the leaves. However, it is important to adapt the garden to the landscape and not the other way around.

Strong criticizes Barnsley for the fact that the garden is only oriented towards perspective , it lacks “mystery and surprise” because it reveals itself at a glance. This makes the garden appear small. Lane Fox didn't like the narrow paths, especially in the kitchen garden. The garden is photogenic, but poorly suited for long-term use.

effect

Verey's style was very popular in the 1980s. The lawyer and hobby gardener Barbara Paul Robinson called her “the queen of horticulture” in a lecture and claims “Rosemary Verey, in her life as in her work, was the very personification of the English garden style. Her influence will be felt for generations. ”The ancient historian Robin Lane Fox calls her the“ Queen of English horticulture. According to the obituary in the Economist , she was active in the luxury goods industry, especially for wealthy Americans. A “Verey garden” bestowed the same Status like a Rolls-Royce or a visit to Harrods , “... the Verey look was a rich person's indulgence.” The eccentric art historian Roy Strong called Verey “his garden muse” in 1989, but described her style rather derogatory as “revival revival” the rewarming of the English country house style of the Victorian and Edwardian times made popular by Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens: "To her, the past was a way of moving forward." It has taken up the style of the 1880s and 1890s, which in 1914 its natural end Strong attributes her popularity to the cult of the English country house and the restoration of historic gardens in the 1980s never bothered with ideas, but limited to a “firework” of plants.

Lane Fox, on the other hand, sees the cheap printing of books with color photos in Hong Kong and elsewhere as the root of her success: books like Making of a Garden or Garden plans were lavishly furnished with brilliant color photos and so stood out clearly from older works. While authors such as Hobhouse tried in the 1960s and 1970s to make the garden less labor-intensive and thus adapt to the changed social conditions of the post-war period, Verey's garden was opulent and very labor-intensive. With the fees for her books and lecture tours, she was able to afford a team of gardeners. For Lane Fox, Vevey met the spirit of the Thatcher years and the optimistic belief in the free market economy in the early 1980s .

Verey's resumption of the English classical revival style , referred to by Stephen Anderton as “the polite pastel period” of gardening, was soon superseded in England by Piet Oudolf's “New Perennial” style and modernist garden design, for example by Dan Pearson , and is now considered old-fashioned .

Works

Verey wrote 17 books, the first with Alvilde Lees-Milne, who ran the garden at Grange at Wootton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire and had decades of horticultural experience. In some books, Verey appears to have been assisted by a ghostwriter , for example, she thanks Katherine Lambert for generously helping her to collect her ideas and put her thoughts on paper

  • as editor with Alvilde Lees-Milne: The Englishwoman's Garden. Chatto and Windus, London 1980, ISBN 0-7011-2395-8 .
  • The Scented Garden. London, Marshall 1981, ISBN 0-7181-2050-7 .
  • Classic garden design. How to adapt and recreate Garden Features of the Past. Harmondsworth, Viking, 1984, ISBN 0-670-80063-5 . (New edition: London, Murray 1989, ISBN 0-7195-4664-8 )
  • with Ellen Samuels 1984: The American Woman's Garden . Boston, Little & Brown, ISBN 0-8212-1580-9 .
  • Alvilde Lees-Milne, Rosemary Verey (Eds.) 1987. The Englishman's Garden . London, Viking, ISBN 978-0-670-82010-8 . Other editions: London, Allen Lane. David R. Godine, ISBN 0-7139-1436-X .
  • Edited with Alvilde Lees-Milne: The New Englishwoman's Garden. London, Chatto and Windus 1987, ISBN 0-7011-3273-6 .
  • The Garden in winter. London, Frances Lincoln 1988, ISBN 0-7112-0507-8 (Portland, Timber Press 1995, ISBN 0-88192-337-0 , Frances Lincoln 2002 reprint, ISBN 0-7112-2020-4 ).
  • Eileen Stamers-Smith (Ed.) 1989. A Countrywoman's Notes, First published in Country Life magazine in monthly contributions between 1979 and 1987. Cirencester, Gryffon Publications. Limited edition. of 260 copies (further editions 1991, 1993, 2009).
  • Good planting. London, Frances Lincoln 1990, ISBN 0-7112-0606-6 .
  • The American Man's Garden. Boston, Little & Brown 1990, ISBN 0-8212-1774-7 .
  • (Ed.), The Garden gate. London, Pavilion, 1991, ISBN 1-85145-780-1 .
  • The Flower Arranger's Garden. London, Conran Octopus 1992, ISBN 1-85029-322-8 .
  • A gardener's book of days . London, Frances Lincoln 1992, ISBN 0-7112-0748-8 .
  • Good planting. London, Francis Lincoln 1990. Other editions: Boston, Little & Brown 1993, ISBN 0-316-89982-8 .
  • Rosemary Verey's garden plans (photos by Andrew Lawson, watercolors by Jean Sturgis). London, Frances Lincoln 1993, ISBN 0-7112-0810-7 .
  • as editor: Secret Gardens, revealed by their Owners. Little & Brown, Boston 1994, ISBN 0-8212-2074-8 .
  • Rosemary Verey's Making of a Garden. Photographs by Tony Lord. London, Frances Lincoln 1995, ISBN 0-7112-1035-7 .
  • Rosemary Verey's English Country Gardens. Henry Holt & Co, New York NY 1996, ISBN 0-8050-5080-9 .
  • The English Country Garden. London, BBC Books 1996, ISBN 0-563-38705-X .

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Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Verey, Rosemary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sandilands, Isabel Rosemary Baird (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English landscape gardener
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Gillingham, Brompton , Kent
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2001
Place of death London