The story of the botanical garden, from the sixteenth century up to their long heyday in the last two hundred years.
Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism.
The landscape garden is arguably Britain’s greatest contribution to Western Art, establishing an artificial style of garden that has defined what we consider to be a ‘natural environment’. This is the perfect introduction to the subject.
Explores the winding paths and meticulously shaped hedges, the gazebos and gateways, the formal terraces and the billowing border plantings that characterised the Arts and... Læs mere
Though Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich mens' folly and whimsy, in fact they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental. This title presents... Læs mere