Penelope Hobhouse
(1929-), Garden designer, writer and historian of gardensSitter in 1 portrait
Penelope Hobhouse is a garden writer, garden designer, garden historian, lecturer and gardener. For fourteen years until 1993 with her husband, Professor John Malins, she was in charge of the National Trust Gardens at Tintinhull House in Somerset. Today she lives in Dorset and travels in Europe, Australia and the United States lecturing and designing gardens.
by Tessa Traeger
gelatin silver print, 2000
NPG P1026(17)
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