Hidcote: A Garden for All Seasons

BBC Four - Hidcote: A Garden for All Seasons: "Documentary telling the story of Hidcote - the most influential English garden of the 20th century - and Lawrence Johnston, the enigmatic genius behind it. Hidcote was the first garden ever taken on by the National Trust, who spent 3.5 million pounds in a major programme of restoration. This included researching Johnston's original vision, which in turn uncovered the compelling story of how Johnston created such an iconic garden. Until recently, little was known about the secretive and self-taught Johnston. He kept few, if any, records on Hidcote's construction, but current head gardener Glyn Jones made it a personal mission to discover as much about the man as possible to reveal how, in the early 20th century, Johnston set about creating a garden that has inspired designers all over the world."

Лоуренс Джонстон Уотербери (Lawrence Waterbury Johnston).

Во время войны он был ранен и лежал среди считавшихся убитыми и лишь случайно был обнаружен живым.
Путешествие в Китай - эгоист - мнение спутников.
Имея семью, он не создал бы этот сад. -solitary character.
Путешествие по саду- journey of passage.
"gifted gardener" - pure - don't copy nobody- plant hunter
Serre de la Madone, near Menton, on the Mediterranean coast of France - At Serre de la Madone he turned terraces of vines and olives into a garden bright with drifts of agapanthus and strelitzia.
Norah Lindsay -
By 1920, her marriage over, Lindsay was reduced to selling plants from the garden to pay the heating bill. Realising, at the age of 51, that she could make a living as a garden designer, she sallied forth.
The huge influence of Lindsay's design and planting genius on Vita Sackville-West, whom she knew all her life, and Lawrence Johnston, who regarded her as his closest friend. Begun 12 years before Hidcote and 35 years before Sissinghurst, Sutton Courtenay echoes through both.
she died in 1948 at the age of 75.
(Norah Lindsay: life and art of a garden designer)
Nancy Lindsay (1896-1973)
Nancy’s interests in gardening were more horticultural in nature than her mother’s. She formed a strong bond with her mother’s good friend, Lawrence “Johnny” Johnston based upon their common interest in plant collecting. When Johnston died in 1958 he left his estate in France, Serre de la Madone, to Nancy Lindsay.
Nancy Lindsay chose to live a bohemian, controversial, eccentric, and sometimes difficult life as a plant collector, nursery owner, traveler, artist and gardener.
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