Tag: Rock LandscapesL The Pulham Legacy
The Local Historian – May 2013
Rock Landscapes: The Pulham Legacy
Rock Gardens, Grottoes, Ferneries, Follies, Fountains and Garden Ornaments. Claude Hitching, with photography by Jenny Lilly (Garden Art Press 2012 – 320pp – ISBN 978-1-87067-376-1) £35
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This excessively illustrated book (there are 450 colour and 340 black and white photographs) is the culmination of over ten years of research, inspired by the author’s family connections with the Pulhams and their remarkable creations in artificial and natural rockwork. When he retired, Claude Hitching, originally a Management Accountant, started to research his own family, beginning with his grandfather, Frederick Hitching. Continue reading “The Local Historian – May 2013”
London Landscapes – Autumn / Winter 2012
Rock Landscapes: The Pulham Legacy
Claude Hitching
Published by Garden Art Press, for the Antique Collectors Club, Suffolk 2012 – (RRP 235) ISBN 978-1 -87067-376-1
During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, as new plants flooded into the UK from around the world, rockeries, and decorative rockwork gained in popularity. Many were built on a grandiose scale to display rare and unusual alpine and mountain plants, both in private gardens and later in public parks. A large rockery might have mini-ravines, grottoes, waterfalls and even purpose-built caves. Continue reading “London Landscapes – Autumn / Winter 2012”
Garden History Journal – Autumn 2012
Review by Brent Elliott of
Rock Landscapes: The Pulham Legacy
in the Garden History Journal – Winter 2012 (pp.308-310)
Claude Hitching, Rock Landscapes: The Pulham Legacy (Woodbridge: Garden Art Press, 2012), 320 pp., illus. in colour and black-and-white, £35.00 (hbk). ISBN 9-781870-673761 Continue reading “Garden History Journal – Autumn 2012”
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