Hampshire Gardens Trust Hutton Library
The library has now been renamed the HGT Hutton Library after the late Professor Stan Hutton and his wife, Barbara, who organised the setting up of the library at the University and continued to run it until 2007.
Valerie Joynt is the Honorary Librarian and looks after the collection of books we have at the library. Valerie is always looking for suggestions from members and is keen to hear from anyone who has read a good book which covers our subject range i.e. designers, botanists, plant hunters, conservation and restoration of gardens and landscapes, public parks, general garden history and specific gardens anywhere which have historical significance. Preference is given to books of a historical or scholarly content and particular preference goes to books about gardens and landscapes in Hampshire or books written by HGT members.
If you are willing to share your own thoughts with the HGT, please feel free to write your own review and email to the HGT office admin@hgt.org.uk and we will post it in the Book Review section of our website.
Click here for the Trust’s Library Webpage
Southampton University Highfield Campus
The Trust’s Library is based in the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton.
The HGT Hutton Library is part of Special Collections on level 4 of the Hartley Library. It is open to all to use.
The books are shelved in the Special Collections open access area and can be used whenever the Library is open.
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To use the library
When you first visit the library apply for a minicard by showing your HGT membership card and a piece of personal identification. The minicard gives you access to the library and enables you to borrow books.
Borrowing books
Members of the Hampshire Gardens Trust can apply for free membership of the Library as External Borrowers. Please bring your HGT membership card with you and one piece of personal ID.
As a member of the Hartley Library, HGT books may be borrowed on long loan except a few which will still be for reference only. There are also books relevant for our research on the open shelves of the Hartley which may also be borrowed.
Search the Library catalogue (WebCat): https://www-lib.soton.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=m3NzDyQiMO/HARTLEY/X/60/502/X
Browse the HGT-Hutton collection: https://www-lib.soton.ac.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=m3NzDyQiMO/HARTLEY/X/60/502/X
NB: any book available through the catalogue may be delivered to a more convenient site for you to collect, eg the Winchester School of Art. You can also return books through the Winchester School of Art.
Parking
Parking freely is possible in the roads near the university with a maximum stay of 2 hours. During working hours there is a university car park for visitors at the junction of University Road and Burgess Road, charging £1 per hour. After 5.30 p.m. weekdays,
Please click here for a history of the library and further information on its use.
Book Reviews
The Art of the Islamic Garden
by Emma Clark
Published by Crowood Press PB edition 2010
Reviewed by
Valerie Joynt
The Well Gardened Mind
By Sue Stuart-Smith
Published by William Collins
Reviewed by
Sally Smith
The Theory of Gardens
by Jean-Marie Morel
Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library as part of the exhorto series, 2019
Reviewed by
Valerie Joynt
An Economic History of the English Garden
by Roderick Floud, Published by Penguin Random House, 2019
Reviewed by
Valerie Joynt
The Hidden Horticulturalists: The untold story of the men who shaped Britain's gardens
by Fiona Davison, Published by Atlantic Books, London, 2019
Reviewed by
Kevin Barton
The Galanthophiles: 160 years of snowdrop devotees
by Jane Kilpatrick and Jennifer Harmer , Published by Orphans Publishing, 2018
Reviewed by
Helen Powell
The laying out, planting and managing of cemeteries and on the improvement of churchyards
by J C Loudon, Facsimile edition
with an introduction and bibliography by James Stevens Curl, 2019
Reviewed by
Ann Pearce
Humphry Repton at Herriard Park 'Improving the Premises'
by Sally Miller 2019, Published by Hampshire Gardens Trust £12
Reviewed by
Steven Desmond
Marsh Court
by Francis James 2015, Old Bakehouse Publications £16
Reviewed by
Valerie Joynt
Earthly Joys
by Phillipa Gregory (1998 HarperCollins)
Reviewed by
Georgina Craufurd
You Should Have Been Here Last Week : Sharp Cuttings from a Garden Writer
by Tim Richardson (2016, pb 2018 Pimpernel Press)
Reviewed by
Georgina Craufurd
The History of Landscape Designs in 100 Gardens
by Linda A Chisholm, 2018, Time Press, Oregon
Reviewed by
Valerie Joynt
The Buildings of England: Hampshire: South
by Charles O’Brien et al (2018)
£35.00. Reviewed by
Georgina Craufurd
Gardens of the Italian Lakes
by Stephen Desmond
Photographs Marianne Majerus. Pub. Francis Lincoln 2016. 224 pages £35.00.
Reviewed by
Sheila Carey-Thomas.
Cottages Ornés: The Charms of the Simple Life
by Roger White
Photographs Marianne Majerus. Yale U. P. 2017. 272 pages.
Reviewed by
Georgina Craufurd
Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men: Landscape Revolution in Eighteenth-century England
by David Brown and Tom Williamson
Pub. Reaktion Books. 2016. 250 pages
Reviewed by
Wendy Bishop.
First Ladies of Gardening
By Heidi Howcroft
Photographs Marianne Majerus. ISBN 9-780-7112-3643-1. Publ. Frances Lincoln 2015. 176 pages.
Reviewed by
Georgina Craufurd
Gardens of Court and Country 1630–1730
by David Jacques
Pub. Yale U.P. 2017, £45. ix + 406 pages, 299 illus.
Reviewed by
Georgina Craufurd
A Natural History of English Gardening 1650–1800
by Mark Laird
2015 Yale Unversity Press. 438 pages. ISBN 978 0 300 19636 8. RRP £45.
Reviewed by
Valerie Joynt
Ichnographia Rustica – Stephen Switzer and the Designed Landscape
By William Alvis Brogden
Published by Routledge, March 2016.
Reviewed by
Valerie Joynt
The Brother Gardeners, Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
by Andrea Wulf
Heinemann 2008, 246 pages. Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2009
Winner of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award
Reviewed by
Janet Hurrell
The Historic Gardens of England: Hampshire
By Timothy Mowl and Jane Whitaker
privately published by Stephen Morris, 2016, £19.95 available from Wells Bookshop, Winchester
Reviewed by
Rosemary Baird