Penelope Hobhouse
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| Born | Penelope Chichester-Clark 20 November 1929 (grandmother) |
Penelope Hobhouse MBE (born 20 November 1929), née Chichester-Clark, is a British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter.
Early life
Born into an
She was educated at North Foreland Lodge and Girton College, Cambridge,[1] graduating with a BA in economics in 1951.[2]
Career
Hobhouse walked through Tuscany and taught herself gardening by examples of the Tuscan villa gardens she saw; she went on to be a garden writer and designer, publishing many books on the subject. She started work at Hadspen House, Somerset until leaving in 1979.[3]
In 1980 she and her husband Prof John Malins moved into Tintinhull Gardens.[4] The garden's former designer Phyllis Reiss was said to have had a strong influence of Hobhouse.[5] Until 1993, she was in charge of Tintinhull House's gardens also in Somerset.[2]
In 1996 she hosted a television series for
Hobhouse is "a fixture in the minds of gardeners who love rooms and bones – the paths and walls and satisfying verticals that form the skeleton of a garden."[7]
She has designed gardens in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the United States. They include a garden for
She is an associate editor of Gardens Illustrated magazine. She has taught at the University of Essex. She then lived in Bettiscombe, Dorset until 2008.[2] She moved in September 2008 back to Hadspen, where she started a new garden outside her quarters which are in the yard. Her new garden is a south facing and 17 m × 17 m (56 ft × 56 ft) enclosure at the back of some converted stables surrounded by mature box hedging.[citation needed]
Family
Hobhouse married firstly, 17 May 1952 Paul Rodbard Hobhouse (d 1994), son of Sir
Awards and honours
- Award of Excellence for her book, Gardening Through the Ages from the Garden Writers Association of America in 1993
- Royal Horticultural Society Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award given by the RHS to British Horticulturists in December 1996.[3]
- Life Time Achievement Award from the Guild of Garden Writers in November 1999
- Honorary degree from Birmingham University
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Garden Designers in January 2020.[11]
She was appointed
A variety of Oenothera was named after her, called Oenothera 'Penelope Hobhouse'.[3]
Selected works
- Hobhouse, Penelope; Edwards, Ambra (2020). The Story of Gardening (US ed.). Hudson, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781616899196.
References
- ^ a b Debrett's entry
- ^ a b c d e Donald, Caroline (30 March 2008). "Gardening guru Penelope Hobhouse sells her Dorset house and garden". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ a b c Julia Brittain Plant Lover's Companion: Plants, People and Places, p. 95, at Google Books
- ^ "Tintinhull House Garden". Garden Visit. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "Inspiring female garden designers in British history". Gardens Illustrated. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ Rodkin, Dennis (5 January 1997). "Two Wonderful Cable Series Will Turn Your Television into A Magic Window To Spring". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ^ Raver, Anne (22 January 1995). "Gardening Is So Much More Than, Well, Plants". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- ^ Mahon, Stephanie (13 April 2016). "ABERGLASNEY – OUR WELSH GARDEN OF THE WEEK". The English Garden. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ Eaton, Joe; Sullivan, Ron (26 February 2012). "Steve Jobs' gardener describes mutual appreciation". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- ^ Raver, 1995.
- ^ "Lifetime Achievement". The Garden - Royal Horticultural Society: 9. April 2020.
- ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b20.
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