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To look at Amanda Cobbett's work is to be transported deep into the heart of the forest. Tiny mushrooms spring from the stalks of decomposing leaves. Twigs and bark, both windfallen and living, are tufted, crusted and cushioned with mosaics of lichens and mosses of astonishing variety. Fleshy toadstools capture the eye with their bright colours and strange forms - closer inspection revealing their delicate gills, a nibbled stalk, and the mycelium threads or hyphae that both form their fruiting bodies and connect them together in networks that we are only just beginning to understand. Although at first glance the pieces look entirely real, they are in fact embroideries, composed of hundreds upon hundreds of threads (most apt considering their subject), painstakingly worked and reworked into their final forms. This book catalogues the collection of 26 works of art commissioned by Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, based on the four Buccleuch seats: Bowhill, Drumlanrig and Dalkeith Palace in Scotland and Boughton House in Northamptonshire. It covers Amanda's approach and methods, as well as some of her original watercolors and photographs, combined with Andrew Montgomery's astonishingly precise photographs of her final sculptures.

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Natasha Goodfellow is a writer and editor, writing regularly for publications including Gardens Illustrated, Country Life and House & Garden among others. A former deputy editor of Homes & Antiques magazine, she left to pursue her interest in gardens and plants and has since worked with award-winning garden designers Luciano Giubbilei and Arabella Lennox-Boyd, and with the Boglione family at Petersham Nurseries on their recent books. She also curates art and design events at the Garden Museum in London, an interest which feeds her writing and vice versa. Andrew Montgomery has been a photographer all his life. After leaving art college he began a three-year apprenticeship with renowned black-and-white printer Roy Snell, shooting portraits before moving into lifestyle and narrative photography. His first book commission was Jasper Conran's Country, and more than 20 titles followed, covering food, travel and gardens, and working with acclaimed chefs and food writers as well several of the UK's leading garden designers. Following the Publication of Petersham Nurseries in 2021, Andrew launched his own publishing company, Montgomery Press. Winter Gardens is the imprint's first book.

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