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The Garden Book - Revised and Updated Edition (Hardcover): Phaidon Editors The Garden Book - Revised and Updated Edition (Hardcover)
Phaidon Editors; Edited by Tim Richardson; Contributions by Toby Musgrave
R1,403 R1,203 Discovery Miles 12 030 Save R200 (14%) Out of stock

"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 juxtapositions between the 500 iconic garden-makers of all time found within its pages A beautifully illustrated A-to-Z who's who of the world's finest garden-makers, planters, horticulturists, and their signature works from throughout history, spanning all styles and continents, this international bestseller has been fully revised and updated for a modern, global readership. From the first religious gardens to Dan Pearson's heavenly Tokachi garden in Japan today, each entry illustrates a key work by the designer, describes the garden, and evokes the unique spirit and ethos of their work. Images span four millennia, from ancient Persian gardens to the naturalistic designs of today, with landscapes from Chanticleer to Central Park, Sissinghurst to Versailles, showcasing the biggest names and rising stars of contemporary garden design alongside iconic figures of the past, including Capability Brown, Andrea Cochran, Antoni Gaudi, Dan Hinkley, Gertrude Jekyll, Christopher Lloyd, Cornelia Oberlander, Charles Platt, Carlo Scarpa, Piet Oudolf and more. It's the essential reference for today's gardeners, offering infinite inspiration to create their own signature spaces, whatever their landscape. An exquisite gift and invaluable and authoritative reference for gardeners and garden lovers alike, offering lasting appeal to garden designers, students of garden design, amateur gardeners and garden historians.

Design of the Times - How to Plan Glorious Landscapes and Gardens (Paperback): Rosefiend Cordell Design of the Times - How to Plan Glorious Landscapes and Gardens (Paperback)
Rosefiend Cordell
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Out of stock
Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed - Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens (Paperback): Nuala C. Johnson Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed - Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens (Paperback)
Nuala C. Johnson
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Out of stock

Botanical gardens brought together the great diversity of the Earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Through a study of three botanical gardens, belonging to the University of Cambridge, the Royal Dublin Society and the Belfast Natural History Society, this book shows how the design and display of such gardens was not determined by scientific principles alone. It explores how the final outcome involved a complex interplay of ideas about place, identity, empire, botanical science and aesthetics, creating spaces that would educate the mind as well as please the senses. This highly engaging book offers a wealth of fresh insights into both the history and development of botanical gardens as well as connections between science and aesthetics.

Gardens for Gloriana - Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens (Hardcover): Jane Whitaker Gardens for Gloriana - Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens (Hardcover)
Jane Whitaker
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No leading courtier would be without his great house, no great house was complete without its garden. In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whittaker explores these gems of Elizabethan England, focussing on the gardens of the Queen and her leading courtiers. Drawing on the cultural and horticultural sources of the day, as well as evidence surviving on the ground, she recreates these lost gardens, revealing both the rich Renaissance culture that underlay them and the sumptuous world of the Elizabethan aristocracy. The result is an evocation of one of the most opulent reigns in English history and an entertaining and informative study of one of the most interesting periods of garden history.

Korean Gardens - Tradition, Symbolism and Resilience (Paperback): Jill Matthews Korean Gardens - Tradition, Symbolism and Resilience (Paperback)
Jill Matthews
R1,198 R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Save R307 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Korean gardens strive to be in harmony with nature and to encourage the quiet contemplation of the natural world. They are intentionally humble in their conception and very different from Japanese and Chinese gardens. Korean gardens deserve to be more widely appreciated in the West as a separate, distinctive, venerable and continuing garden tradition, capable of wide appeal if better known. This book introduces, describes and explains traditional Korean gardens to Western readers. It contains more than one hundred photos and maps and details of 20 notable gardens.

Wall and Water Gardens (Paperback): Gertrude Jekyll Wall and Water Gardens (Paperback)
Gertrude Jekyll
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Out of stock
Annuals & Biennials - The Best Annual and Biennial Plants and Their Uses in the Garden - With Cultural Notes by E. H. Jenkins... Annuals & Biennials - The Best Annual and Biennial Plants and Their Uses in the Garden - With Cultural Notes by E. H. Jenkins (Paperback)
Gertrude Jekyll
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Out of stock
Gardens for Small Country Houses (Paperback): Gertrude Jekyll, Lawrence Weaver Gardens for Small Country Houses (Paperback)
Gertrude Jekyll, Lawrence Weaver
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Out of stock
Gardens of Staffordshire (Paperback): Timothy Mowl, Dianne Barre Gardens of Staffordshire (Paperback)
Timothy Mowl, Dianne Barre
R609 R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Save R34 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Short History of Gardens (Hardcover): Gordon Campbell A Short History of Gardens (Hardcover)
Gordon Campbell
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers. In this short history, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation.

Eden - Updated 15th Anniversary Edition (Paperback, Revised edition): Tim Smit Eden - Updated 15th Anniversary Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
Tim Smit 1
R290 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R39 (13%) Out of stock

'Smit's vision of Eden is the eighth wonder of the world' Independent 'Inspiring... An invaluable guide to how a large project can exceed against all odds' The Sunday Times - An updated edition of the bestselling story of the Eden Project featuring stunning new photography. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the impossible was delivered. From the sterile depths of a disused china clay pit in Cornwall rose one of the most remarkable and ambitious ventures in recent memory. The Eden Project's Biomes, the world's largest conservatories, are the symbol of a living theatre of plants and people and their interdependence, of regeneration and of a pioneering forum for the exploration of possible futures. This is the extraordinary story of the Eden Project, of its conception, design and construction, of the larger-than-life personalities who made it happen and of all that has happened since its doors were first opened to the public in 2001. It is now undisputedly one of the world's great gardens with more than 17 million visitors flocking there and projects and partnerships all over the world.

A Garden in Gothenburg - Tradgardsforeningen (Paperback): A Garden in Gothenburg - Tradgardsforeningen (Paperback)
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Out of stock
Garden Tourism (Paperback, Revised): Richard W. Benfield Garden Tourism (Paperback, Revised)
Richard W. Benfield
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Garden visitation has been a tourism motivator for many years and can now be enjoyed in many different forms. Private garden visiting, historical garden tourism, urban gardens, and a myriad of festivals, shows and events all allow the green-fingered enthusiast to appreciate the natural world. This book traces the history of garden visitation and examines tourist motivations to visit gardens. Useful for garden managers and tourism students as well as casual readers, it also examines management and marketing of gardens for tourism purposes, before concluding with a detailed look at the form and tourism-based role of gardens in the future.

Garden Guide - New York City (Paperback, Revised Edition): Nancy Berner, Susan Lowry Garden Guide - New York City (Paperback, Revised Edition)
Nancy Berner, Susan Lowry; Photographs by Joseph De Sciose
R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tucked inside venerable museums, perched on rooftops, concealed behind sleek midtown facades, and waiting beyond unassuming gates you may have passed a hundred times, if you know where to look, remarkable gardens welcome visitors in almost every corner of New York City. From the windy bluffs of The Heather Garden in Fort Tryon Park to the bold, contemporary Gantry Plaza State Park in Hunters Point, Queens, to the innovative, recently-opened High Line, this pocket-sized guide tells the stories of more than 100 gardens in New York City's boroughs. In addition to presenting the flora and fauna of New York's urban fabric, it also chronicles the history, events, and personalities behind the green spaces visited by generations of New Yorkers. More than 50 color photos showcase the gardens, with each garden entry offering complete visitor information, clearly-labeled maps of each borough or region, and lively anecdotes sprinkled throughout. Praise for the First Edition: "[A] beautiful and instructive guide to 100 gardens (the number du jour) in the five boroughs, as delightful as it is petite." -Verlyn Klinkenborg "Find a green oasis near you in the new Garden Guide: New York City . . . The beautifully photographed, pocket-sized book covers more than 100 public gardens . . . these horticultural escapes . . . will make you breathe a little easier." -Time Out New York "[This] guide can be used to find a refuge from the concrete . . . [and] help New Yorkers find the riches that are theirs in this great city." -Urban Outdoors

Napoleon - A Life in Gardens and Shadows (Paperback): Ruth Scurr Napoleon - A Life in Gardens and Shadows (Paperback)
Ruth Scurr
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial Times A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade. Napoleon's gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica, to Josephine's menageries in Paris, to the walled garden of Hougoumont at the battle of Waterloo, and ultimately to St Helena, where he could sit and scan the sea in his final months. In this innovative biography, Ruth Scurr follows the dramatic trajectory of Napoleon's life through the land he cultivated and that offered him retreat from the manifold frustrations of war and politics. Seen through the eyes of those who knew him in the shade of his gardens, Napoleon emerges a giant figure made human - both as the Emperor hunting for glory and the man in an old straw hat, leaning on his spade. 'Immensely satisfying and captivating... Charming and intelligent' Andrew Roberts, TLS 'Grippingly original' The Times 'A delight to read' Daily Telegraph * A Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Sunday Telegraph and History Today * Winner of a Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2022

The Romance Continues - The Art and Gardens of Grant Leier and Nixie Barton (Hardcover): Goody Niosi The Romance Continues - The Art and Gardens of Grant Leier and Nixie Barton (Hardcover)
Goody Niosi
R842 R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Save R71 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Illustrated with lush reproductions of Grant and Nixie's art and photographs of their amazing garden, "The Romance Continues" is a love story, an art-appreciation adventure and a garden tour, all wrapped up in one gorgeous volume. Nationally known artists Grant Leier and Nixie Barton are also husband and wife, parents and the creators of an astonishing and whimsical garden on Vancouver Island. Their paintings differ greatly, though both artists make extensive use of rich, luminous and vibrant colours, and both are widely admired and collected. Over their long careers, Grant and Nixie have experimented with subjects and styles, and observing the growth and change in their work is fascinating. When they moved to a rural, seven-acre property, they turned their love of colour and sense of fun onto the land, and the rambling, witty garden they created is a visual spectacle that draws thousands of delighted visitors every year.

Wildest Place On Earth (Paperback, New Ed): John Hanson Mitchell Wildest Place On Earth (Paperback, New Ed)
John Hanson Mitchell
R346 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R60 (17%) Out of stock

A captivating journey to uncover the essence of wilderness, by one of this country's most original nature writers. In The Wildest Place on Earth Mitchell sets out on a journey to uncover the essence of wilderness. Instead of traveling to remote, untamed parts of the world, Mitchell ends up exploring the green realms of his childhood and the gardens of Italy. He is pulled inward and toward home, back to what Thoreau called "contact"--an abiding, enduring, and daily connection with the world. He comes to realize that the wildest place may be right in his own backyard.A Merloyd Lawrence Book

Along the Garden Path - More Quilters and Their Gardens (Paperback, illustrated edition): Jean Wells, Valori Wells Along the Garden Path - More Quilters and Their Gardens (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Jean Wells, Valori Wells
R760 R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Save R47 (6%) Out of stock

Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.

My Summer in a Garden (Paperback, New Ed): Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden (Paperback, New Ed)
Charles Dudley Warner; Introduction by Allan Gurganus
R315 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R59 (19%) Out of stock

Oft quoted but seldom credited,Charles Dudley Warner’s My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal early work in the then fledgling genre of American nature writing. Warner—prominent in his day as a writer and newspaper editor—was a dedicated amateur gardener who shared with Mark Twain, his close friend and neighbor, a sense of humor that remains deliciously fresh today.

In monthly dispatches, Warner chronicles his travails in the garden, where he and his cat, Calvin, seek to ward off a stream of interlopers, from the neighbors’ huge-hoofed cows and thieving children, to the reviled, though “propagatious,” pusley weed. To read Warner is to join him on his rounds of his beloved vegetable patch, to feel the sun on his sore back, the hoe in his blistered hands, and yet, like him, never to lose sight of “the philosophical implications of contact with the earth, and companionship with gently growing things.”

This Modern Library edition is published with an extensive new Introduction by Allan Gurganus, author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and The Practical Heart.

The Oxford Companion to Gardens (Paperback, New ed): Patrick Goode, Michael Lancaster The Oxford Companion to Gardens (Paperback, New ed)
Patrick Goode, Michael Lancaster
R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

Covering the history and design of gardens from the earliest known examples to the present day, this is the first comprehensive reference work of its kind. Written by a team of leading specialists and lavishly illustrated throughout, the Companion contains articles ranging from design histories of individual countries and specific terms to biographies of leading designers, patrons, and plant-collectors and information on landscape gardening, public parks, and international exhibitions.

Cleveland's Cultural Gardens - A Landscape of Diversity (Paperback): John J. Grabowski, Lauren R. Pacini Cleveland's Cultural Gardens - A Landscape of Diversity (Paperback)
John J. Grabowski, Lauren R. Pacini
R939 R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Save R174 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Honoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spacesFrom their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethnic diversity, the unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens that compose Cleveland's Cultural Gardens holds a rich history. John J. Grabowski guides readers through this story, using both archival images and Lauren R. Pacini's stunning contemporary photography to illustrate their development and importance. The effect is a comprehensive view of the factors that made the Cultural Gardens possible, from Cleveland's geographical features to international conflicts. First erected as the Shakespeare Garden in 1916, the land bordering Doan Brook slowly began to incorporate tributes to immigrants, reflecting Cleveland's role as a key location for eastern European immigrants. Through this chronicle of the gardens' changing landscapes, Grabowski shapes a gripping narrative of shifting attitudes toward immigration, both locally and nationally. Throughout both world wars, the Cold War, and more recent events, the gardens' composition has changed to reflect more diversity, now encompassing 33 individual gardens that honor cultures and countries with connections to Cleveland. Today, each garden features plants native to the corresponding culture, from German to Vietnamese and from Ethiopian to Finnish. This vast cultural inclusivity makes Cleveland's Cultural Gardens a forerunner in the push for greater representation of cultures and people of color in memorials and public spaces. The gardens also highlight a growing emphasis on collaboration and coexistence among cultures, as symbolized in the Peace Garden of the Nations and its crypt of intermingled soil from historic shrines around the world. This book will be of interest to field specialists and nonexperts alike for its excellent illustrations and for its discussion of culture, inclusion, and diversity both on a local and national scale.

Through the Garden Gate - Quilters and Their Gardens (Paperback, illustrated edition): Jean Wells, Valori Wells Through the Garden Gate - Quilters and Their Gardens (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Jean Wells, Valori Wells
R615 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R82 (13%) Out of stock

Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact c&t publishing.

Wilderness by Design - Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Ethan Carr Wilderness by Design - Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Ethan Carr
R759 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R42 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ethan Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context. Despite the difficulties now confronting the parks, their continued ability to attract millions of visitors suggests that their creators succeeded in presenting a captivating vision of a once-wild America.Ethan Carr is a landscape architect and is currently working for the National Park Service. He has taught landscape architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the University of Virginia School of Architecture.

New Jersey's Great Gardens: A Four-Season Guide to 125 Public Gardens, Parks, and Aboretums (Paperback, 1st ed): Arline... New Jersey's Great Gardens: A Four-Season Guide to 125 Public Gardens, Parks, and Aboretums (Paperback, 1st ed)
Arline Zatz, Joel L. Zatz; Photographs by Joel L. Zatz
R536 R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Save R47 (9%) Out of stock

A thorough and wide-ranging guide to the vast array of public gardens, arboretums, woods, and parks in the Garden State. In this practical, informative, illustrated guide, Arline Zatz describes dozens of inviting places to spend an hour, an afternoon, or an entire day. Each garden has been chosen for its uniqueness and beauty, such as Warinanco Park Gardens, with its dazzling show of tulips in spring, and Marquand Park, an arboretum with two hundred different species of trees. There are butterfly gardens, colonial herb gardens at historic sites, memorial gardens, pocket-sized romantic gardens, and gardens for meditation--plus places to picnic, listen to the birds, and awaken the senses. Here you'll find information on the history and plantings of each garden listed, as well as details on how to get there, when to visit for peak bloom and seasonal events, and much more. This guide will be welcomed by garden enthusiasts as well as by anyone seeking excursions in the Garden State. Contains descriptions of over 80 public gardens in the Garden State. A gardener's appendix at the back of the book lists nurseries and garden suppliers throughout the state.

Garden and Grove - The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175 (Paperback, New Ed): John Dixon Hunt Garden and Grove - The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination, 16-175 (Paperback, New Ed)
John Dixon Hunt
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Garden and Grove" is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems.With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.

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