Gardens (Descriptions, History Etc)

This collection brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth...

This book addresses the question ‘Why draw?’ by examining the various dynamic relationships between media, process, thought and environment. Highly...

From the acclaimed author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners brings toge...

What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world ...

Strategies for Landscape Representation discusses a variety of digital and analogue production techniques for the representation of landscape at mu...

Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of es...

Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head garde...

Although the integration of sculpture in gardens is part of a long tradition dating back at least to antiquity, the sculptures themselves are often...

The modern period in landscape architecture is enjoying the fascinated appreciation of scholars and historians in Europe and the Americas, and new ...

Explore the mystery of what makes us love gardening, via history, science, art and philosophy. Whether you seek sanctuary in your potting shed, fin...

The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture’s increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecolo...

'What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the w...

The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture’s increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecolo...

Featuring beautiful photographs and insightful commentary this Japanese gardening book is a must-have for any gardening or zen enthusiast.At the he...

Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given...

"Defiant Gardens" examines gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the ghettos duri...

Reconnect with nature from the ground up and nurture not only your garden but your soul.There's a lot of gardening advice out there. But none that ...

This seminal study, from one of Britain's most eminent landscape historians, takes a chronological tour through British parks and gardens since Rom...

Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon t...