"There is more to St Helena than an exiled emperor; the tiny island in the middle of the wild South Atlantic Ocean has a rich garden heritage and an extraordinarily diverse flora, both exotic and endemic. This was the consequence of St Helena being the stopover for the vast East…
A book about the plant kingdom, from acanthus to zinnias, it also advises how to plant gardens for various special purposes.
The 18th-century landscape garden is the only art form to have originated wholly in Britain. This book tells the extraordinary story of the gang of eccentrics who created these gardens, a small group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, and others whose obsession w…
The 18th-century landscape garden is the only art form to have originated wholly in Britain. This book tells the extraordinary story of the gang of eccentrics who created these gardens, a small group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, and others whose obsession w…
Between 1715 and 1750 a group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. Arguably the only truly British art form ever invented, these gardens were built to …
