A short history of British Gardens -- Stowe: Lord Cobham's Georgian arcadia -- Biddulph Grange: James Bateman's Victorian world garden -- Nymans: The Messels' Edwardian rural retreat -- Great Dixter: Christopher Lloyds' provocative paradise.
British Gardens in Time takes four iconic gardens, each a product of its age, and provides a fascinating window into the creators and events that shaped them. The stories of their creation include obsession, escape, social ambition, political intrigue, heartbreak, bankruptcy and…
Success in gardening requires some aesthetic direction, and there are as many approaches to this as there are gardeners. To fully bring your garden to its potential and to make sure you will be pleased with what you create, you need to start with a vision. In Garden Styles, you …
"In 1837 the fledgling city of Chicago, once maligned as a swampy outpost, brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its unlikely sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearb…
Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to inno…
"The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences of? life? entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and land…
"The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences of?life? entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and lands…
