Brenda Colvin: A Career in Landscape
Trish's biography of the garden designer and landscape architect Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) was published by Frances Lincoln in 2011. Colvin ranks with Geoffrey Jellicoe and Sylvia Crowe as a pioneer of twentieth-century landscape design in Britain. This is the first full account of her life and work and demonstrates her importance.
'Carefully researched and copiously illustrated, A Career in Landscape fills an important gap in landscape history and leaves one eager to learn more, surely the sign of a really successful biography.' Christopher Stocks, BBC Gardens Illustrated, February 2011
'The story of one of our greatest heroines. A fascinating read - Brenda was an inspiration and a link between the past and the future of gardening.' The English Garden, January 2011
ISBN 978-0-7112-3171-9
Available on Amazon where you can also read sample pages
Folio and Your Parish
Trish used to write a monthly gardening page for the Bristol/Bath/Cheltenham lifestyle magazine Folio, as well as one for her local St Kew parish magazine.