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Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
Brand: Frances Lincoln
Shakespeare's Gardens is a highly illustrated, informative book about the gardens that William Shakespeare knew as a boy and tended as a man, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of his death in April 2016. This anniversary will be the f..
33.79£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pin..
18.60£
Brand: Timber Press
"Delve into this beautiful book. You'll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens bring into our lives." -Sigourney Weaver, environmentalist, actor, trustee of New York Botanical Garden How does an individual garden relate to the lar..
34.47£
ISBN: 9781906593155Publisher: Redcliffe Press Ltd.Imprint: Redcliffe Press Ltd.Published date: 17 Sep 2009DEWEY: 914.24604DEWEY edition: 22Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 336Weight: 962gHeight: 245mmWidth: 169mmSpine width: 23mm..
28.01£
Brand: Head of Zeus
'Brings both house and garden vividly to life... A magnificent achievement' Gardens Illustrated'A finely crafted work... it is an important record of the history of one of the country's most splendid estates' The English GardenThe..
73.84£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
England is a nation of gardeners and most of us garden in suburbia. A private paradise encompassed by privet, the suburban garden contains in its small compass the hopes and dreams of millions of gardeners past and present. From Victorian shrubberie..
12.86£
Tassonomica faces how the need for understanding nature has historically shaped our conception of garden. From their very origin, gardens have always beared an ideal tension between knowledge and pleasure, resulting in the archetypes of the botanica..
24.19£
2021 New England Society Book Award winnerThe Adventures of a Narrative Gardener 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. Through a careful mix of rich v..
37.48£
Brand: The History Press
In the heart of London, beside the Thames not far from the site of the world famous flower show, there is another magical garden. It has been there for over three hundred years and is now the calmest corner, and the most valuable four acres of freeh..
15.41£
Brand: Yale University Press
Roy Strong's next book The Elizabethan Image explores the Elizabethan aesthetic and its success, and will be published by Yale University Press in June 2019 This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines for the first time a delig..
29.34£
Brand: Frances Lincoln
Italy's gardens speak to us all. In the history of gardening they are the bridge between our world and the ancient world. Their harmony, symmetry and serenity are at once inimitable and universally copied.During the past few years Italy has awoken t..
30.76£
This is a compelling story about the decline and rebirth of a 100 year old garden. Until recently, the Blue Garden, an icon of Gilded Age splendour in Newport, Rhode Island, was known only from hand-tinted slides dating from 1917. Originally designe..
47.16£
In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai's remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai's classical gardens are as much text..
25.63£
Brand: Rizzoli Electa
The first major illustrated monograph in many years on the history of gardens, landscape design, and architecture, focusing on both the Western and Eastern traditions and their influences. Ambitious in scope and lavishly illustrated, this book survey..
88.88£
Brand: Historic England
The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. It is also the best documented of all the great gardens of its age, providing the starting point for Engli..
88.69£
Brand: White Lion Publishing
This beautifully revised and updated classic takes a fresh look at the English country house garden, starting with the owners and the stories behind the making of the gardens.Glorious photographs capture the gardens at their finest moments through t..
32.39£
Brand: Thames & Hudson
Linda Rutenberg's images capture an astonishing world hidden from plain sight. By photographing public and botanical gardens at night, Rutenberg reveals a luminous landscape of plants, colours, shadows and light. ISBN: 9780500543733Publisher: Thames..
56.23£
Brand: Phaidon Press Ltd
"The ultimate A-to-Z guide to world-class landscapes and the talents behind them." - Southern Living Revealing the rich artistic history of this ever-changing art form, the A-to-Z format of this fully updated bestseller creates fascinating jux..
49.96£
Brand: Random House
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Exquisite...should be read by every gardener in the country' Observer The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of small creatures with whom we live cheek-by-jowl and of the myriad ways that we can en..
13.80£
Brand: Phaidon Press Ltd
With more than 1,000 images and descriptive texts, this is the ultimate celebration of the world's most gorgeous gardens This internationally bestselling inspirational resource for garden-lovers and designers is now reissued with a gorgeous new cove..
77.23£
Brand: The Images Publishing Group
There is nothing lovelier than England in June, when it's in full blossom, when the sun is sinking down behind the hedgerows and the Queen Elizabeth rose, with its palest of pale pink petals, is unfolding into glorious summer bloom. Nothing lifts th..
36.64£
Brand: Global Book Sales
Rousham is one of England's most important gardens. It represents the first phase of English landscape design and remains almost as its designer William Kent left it, with many of its 18th century features left intact. Rousham's gardens enjoy an eno..
37.76£
Brand: University of Virginia Press
The General in the Garden provides an engaging, informative, and richly illustrated introduction to George Washington's landscape at Mount Vernon - arguably the best-documented, best-preserved complex of gardens and grounds to survive from eighteent..
50.72£
Brand: The Pimpernel Press Ltd
What do the celebrated actors, the bestselling novelist, the Nepalese Sherpa and the famous model have in common? Like millions of us, they love their gardens - and with good reason, too. Gardening is an art form through which we can all express our..
35.95£