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Russell Page was one of the great English landscape architects of this century...His book The Education of a Gardener remains, in my view, the best combined guide to planting and designing a garden ever written, with inspiration for every sort of gardener, wherever they are placed. The last chapter on his own dream garden is brilliant

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Independent

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Probably the most influential 20th-century book on garden design... It is the universality of its lessons that is the great strength of his book

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Country Life

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Page has written an astonishingly beautiful book about his craft

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Doris Lessing

«Page had a great talent and a sensitivity not only to different types of flora and to different climates, but also to the architectural requirements of gardens, both large and small... Combining a painter's eye (his only formal training was in art) with a pragmatic and encyclopedic knowledge of horticulture, he produced gardens that were - are -extraordinarily lovely»

New York Times

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Russell Page, admittedly a bit of a mystic, is pretty much out there by himself with his verdant heart and green digits

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Michael Pollan