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Australian Inspiration: A Bush Graden Goes to Chelsea by Cliff Green with Jim FogartyThe plethora of lifestyle shows on commercial television has elevated the profession of landscaping to a previously unheard-of popularity in recent years. However, behind the glitz and glamour of khaki shorts is a hard-working and often undervalued group of industry professionals. Australian Inspiration is a novel account of how two such professionals, Cliff Green and Jim Fogarty, undertook the Herculean task of creating Australia’s first show garden at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show in London in May of this year.Published 26 February, 2005 Australian Inspiration: A Bush Garden Goes to Chelsea (Cliff Green with Jim Fogarty, Lothian, $34.95 pb, ISBN 0734407211, November)
The plethora of lifestyle shows on commercial television has elevated the profession of landscaping to a previously unheard-of popularity in recent years. However, behind the glitz and glamour of khaki shorts is a hard-working and often undervalued group of industry professionals. Australian Inspiration is a novel account of how two such professionals, Cliff Green and Jim Fogarty, undertook the Herculean task of creating Australia’s first show garden at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show in London in May of this year. Although this gumboots-and-all insight into landscape design and construction is light-hearted in manner, it successfully highlights the serious logistical, financial and horticultural obstacles encountered by Green, Fogarty and their devoted team of workers. The book tends to linger too long on the biographies of the central characters involved before embarking on its central theme, while it also indulges in both Australian colloquialisms and cultural clichés. Do not presume, however, that this book is only for those with green thumbs, for it also includes some practical insights into marketing an idea internationally from the ground up.
Kate Dethridge is manager of Plants in Print Horticultural Books at Burnley College, Melbourne This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2004, Thorpe-Bowker More from Non-Fiction Book Reviews
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