We Made a Garden

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The garden at East Lambrook Manor, open to the public since 1950, has since come to represent the classic cottage garden style. A passion for nature and ability to mix plants effectively even in the smallest space and in differing environments, made her ideas relevant to all gardeners of her time and for future generations of gardeners. While the cottage garden style was already apparent at Hidcote and Sissinghurst, these were gardens that still required paid gardeners. I have put in a few dozen irises and both the thymes and sages seem to have survived recent planting.

East Lambrook Manor Gardens

I had to pull out my phone so many times to Google them to get an idea of how they looked; a visual glossary of some sort would be a nice addition.Margery Fish was a novice at gardening, but she knew that she wanted an informal garden using cottage garden flowers, while allowing also for self-spreading and self-seeding of native plants. Margery took up the baton of cottage gardening that started outside humble country dwellings, was romanticised by the likes of William Robinson and reached the height of fashion at gardens such as Hidcote and Sissinghurst. wulfenii 'Lambrook Gold', the cotton lavender Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Lambrook Silver', and the primrose Primula 'Lambrook Mauve'. In a world where women had still not been given the vote, Lord Northcliffe, showed Margery that regardless of their sex, it was the ability of his staff to work hard and show talent that would lead to their success.

We Made a Garden (Modern Library Gardening) by Margery Fish

It meant crossing the Atlantic under threat of enemy torpedoes, but she accepted without hesitation. The garden she created, at East Lambrook Manor in Somerset, has Grade I listed status and remains open to the public. Her many articles and books inspired garden enthusiasts with her easy read knowledge and observation. They eventually bought East Lambrook Manor in the Somerset parish of Kingsbury Episcopi in November of that year.Margery Townsend left secretarial college in 1911 with glowing references, at a time when it was still rare for a middle class girl to either want or have the opportunity to follow a career, Margery entered the world of Fleet Street. Archived 15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine and [3] Archived 15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 17 November 2012; Plant People Galore.