How to Read Gardens A Crash Course in Garden Appreciation - How to Read

How to Read Gardens is the essential guide for garden lovers and visitors alike. Visiting gardens has never been more popular but not many of us understand what we are looking at when strolling through a beautiful garden - are we looking at an original landscaped site or a recreation? Is the planting matter authentic or made up of modern hybrids? Are the steps and terracing in the Italianate style or are they Arts and Crafts? The truth is that most gardens of any age are like a palimpsest: successive generations have changed and influenced the soft and hard fabric of the place over time. Inevitably many of the gardens we wander through today are an amalgam of changing fashions and circumstance. How to Read Gardens gives you all the knowledge you need to tease out the clues that will tell you the complete story of a garden's past. From the grandest estate to the smallest suburban plot, this book will enliven and inform every visit.

ISBN:	9781789940282
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published date:	26 Dec 2019
DEWEY:	712.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	398g
Height:	138mm
Width:	165mm
Spine width:	17mm

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