Gardens (Descriptions, History Etc)

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of th...

'Paradise haunts gardens', writes Derek Jarman, 'and it haunts mine.' Jarman's public image is that of a film-maker of genius, whose work, dwelling...

Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relat...

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglect...

Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order looks at the well-known and studied landscape architect, Ian McHarg, in a new light. The author explores ...

As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialization and urbaniza...

In this engaging and fascinating exchange of personal letters, two of the most influential gardeners of all time compare notes on successes and fai...

Venture beyond the impeccably styled rooms and into the private gardens of the world’s most celebrated interior designers Through stunning photogra...

Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one's connection with the earth. City gardens are proliferating at a healthy rate, and plants can ...

An exclusive tour of the private gardens of the UK’s most influential garden designers. From bucolic country cottages to expansive estates, this bo...

An exploration of the balance between the hand of the gardener and the power of nature in the New York Botanical Garden landscape The world-renowne...

The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of ...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the Ri...

Ambitious in scope and a wonder to examine, Gardens in Time captures two millennia of garden history between its covers. The follow-up to world-ren...

Lakewold Gardens is one of the great gardens of the Northwest, marrying classical European garden design with modernist scale and perspective, and ...

More than 90 exquisite gardens were photographed all around the United States especially for this book by Mick Hales, one of the world’s leading ga...

This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architect’s Pocket Book, written by leading practitioners, incorporates updates and revisions to en...

Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English vi...

This volume is number one of a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-centu...

Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architect’s landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which ch...

The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide...

This colourful guide will explain the fundamentals of growing plants, whether you are taking a Level 3 RHS, City and Guilds or Edexcel course, are ...

A reference guide to historical sources for over 200 Devon gardens. It also provides an introduction for would-be garden historians on how to condu...

First published in 2005. In Japan, the garden is considered a barometer of the nation's prosperity and character, and different periods in history ...

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

For more than 1,000 years the English have been making gardens - ten centuries successfully combating the forces of nature, amidst an erratic, unpr...

A visual celebration of Black women and their gardens, filled with inspiration, stories, and the healing magic of gardening, based on the popular I...

The enduring appeal of English gardens is beautifully realised by Clive Nichols, one of Europe's leading garden photographers. From the green hill...

Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to ...

The Zen gardens of Japan are places in which to meditate. They can be anything from a landscaped garden, complete with waterfalls, to a bed of rake...

This is an entirely new kind of garden book, rather than a homage to contemporary gardens, a survey of historic gardens or a "how-to" manual. Throu...