As a garden-maker, Rosemary Verey was entirely self-taught. There was no master plan at her home, Barnsley House, and she admitted that ‘initially I knew very little about design', so the garden just ...

ROSEMARY VEREY, who has died aged 82, was the grande dame of English gardening writers; those who benefited from her advice included the Prince of Wales, with whose garden at Highgrove she had a long ...

When the telephone caller who had interrupted her breakfast identified himself as the Prince of Wales, she retorted somewhat naturally, “Are you joking?” He was not. It really was Britain’s Prince ...

I didn't want to leave Barnsley House, the honeycomb-coloured Cotswold manor house that's the former home of renowned garden designer Rosemary Verey. It was all so lived-in but elegant, too — the ...

Rosemary Verey has been in the news, almost a decade after her death, because of some gossipy revelations in a recent lecture by Sir Roy Strong (as reported by Tim Richardson in Gardening, November 27 ...

People sometimes ask reviewers how they happen to choose the books they write about. In this case, the answer is easy: The picture on the cover of "Rosemary Verey: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary ...

The late Rosemary Verey made her garden one of the most famous in the world during the 1980s and 1990s. Its appealing floral vistas, diminutive ornamental potager and woven knot-garden were on a scale ...

Decades before Martha Stewart, Verey was a fiercely determined, supremely talented, and ambitious gardening superstar modestly camouflaged in sensible shoes and pearls. Her laburnum walk at her home ...

Rosemary Verey, who has died aged 82, was the doyenne of the gardening world. A pioneer gardener, designer and writer, she made "good" gardening popular, and by her example - both in the aesthetic and ...