Penelope Hobhouse
| Penelope Hobhouse | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Penelope Chichester-Clark 20 November 1929 Moyola Park, Castledawson, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | Northern Irish |
| Occupation | Garden writer, designer |
Penelope Hobhouse MBE (born 20 November 1929), née Chichester-Clark, is a British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter.
Born into an Anglo-Irish family in Moyola Park, Castledawson, she is the daughter of James Lenox-Conyngham Chichester-Clark and a sister of Lord Moyola and Sir Robin Chichester-Clark.
She was educated at North Foreland Lodge and Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in economics in 1951.
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. Until 1993 she was in charge of Tintinhull House gardens in Somerset.
In 1996 she hosted a television series for Home & Garden Television in the USA. Her publications include; Colour in Your Garden, Plants in Garden History, Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening', Penelope Hobhouse’s Garden Designs, and Penelope Hobhouse’s Natural Planting.
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." She has designed gardens in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the United States. They include a garden for Elizabeth the Queen Mother, at Walmer Castle in Kent, ‘The Country Garden’ for the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley, a renaissance-style garden in Italy and a garden for the fashion designer, Jil Sander, in Germany. In 1996, she designed an English cottage garden for Steve Jobs' Woodside home, a perfect fit for Tudor-style architecture.
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