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A richly illustrated survey celebrating humankind’s enduring
relationship with the garden, explored throughout art, science,
history, and culture Garden takes readers on a journey across
continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and
image-makers have found inspiration in gardens and horticulture
throughout history. With more than 300 entries, this comprehensive
and stunning visual survey showcases the diversity of the garden
from all over the world – from the garden of Eden and the
grandeur of the English landscape garden to Japanese Zen gardens
and the humble vegetable plot. Spanning a wide range of styles and
media – art, illustrations, and sculptures to photography, film
stills, and textiles – Garden follows a visually
arresting sequence, with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully
paired, and features large-scale images, accessible texts, and
reference information, including a glossary, illustrated timeline,
and biographies. Offering a comprehensive introduction to the
subject, Garden features work by a diverse range of
both lesser-known and iconic artists, including Pierre Bonnard,
Roberto Burle Marx, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Gertrude Jekyll,
Claude Monet, Marianne North, Crispijn de Passe, William Robinson,
Alma Thomas, and Howard Sooley, among others, including a variety
of surprising examples that will appeal to specialists as well as
the general reader. Aimed at a wide audience, this book has diverse
appeal – from artists, designers, and art historians to garden
enthusiasts, horticulturists, and everyone interested in the
natural world around them.
Journey across 40 incredible habitats around the world to discover
the biggest, boldest, and stinkiest plants Without plants there
would be no life on Earth, but most people are blind to their
impact. This stylish and informative introduction to plants sets
out to cure ‘plant blindness’ by introducing children to 66 amazing
plants from the six major climactic zones around the world. From
the smelliest, such as the massive Titan Arum of the Indonesian
rainforest, which stinks of rotting flesh to attract insects, to
the hardest-working, including peat moss, an overlooked bog plant
that helps protect our planet by trapping carbon dioxide, readers
will learn about the vital role of plants in Nature through
detailed, vibrant illustrations and fascinating facts. Children
will also learn how to use their new-found knowledge of the plant’s
natural environment to care for the plants around them and at home.
Fully researched, written, and vetted by expert botanists from
around the world, this book teaches children about plants in the
context of their natural environment, and is ideal for geography
and biology curricular tie ins, as well as being a book that will
inspire children to love and care for the plants around them. This
is the perfect compendium for plant-lovers, budding gardeners, and
would-be botanists and nature-lovers alike. Ages 7 - 12
Enter a world of tents, tea, and terrifically good jam with RHS
Great British Village Show. Written by Thane Prince and Matthew
Biggs, and with a foreword by Alan Titchmarsh, this is the ultimate
illustrated guide to a unique British tradition. Every year,
hundreds of country shows and village fairs take place across the
UK. Celebrate this tradition and step behind the scenes of the
British country show with insider facts and beautiful photographs
that show you every aspect of preparing, presenting, and
prize-winning on the big day. Discover how judges reach their
nail-biting decisions by using official RHS guidelines for over 100
fruit, vegetable, and flower categories. Learn the secrets behind
growing perfect produce, preparing show-quality preserves and bakes
with tips from the experts. RHS Great British Village Show tells
you exactly what the judges are looking for - and what to avoid.
Packed with staging tips, expert guides, photo diaries, and
prize-winning recipes, RHS Great British Village Show is a unique
insider's look behind the scenes of a wonderful British tradition.
With a foreword by Alan Titchmarsh, this beautifully illustrated
book tells the story of the Royal Horticultural Society, the
perhaps the foremost gardening institution in the world. The RHS is
the world's largest gardening charity but what it does and why is
little understood and rarely celebrated. From defining new
gardening trends at the Chelsea Flower Show, to ranking the best
dahlias to grow at the Wisley trial grounds, to inspiring
communities with Britain in Bloom, educating children to grow and
eat their veg through the Campaign for School Gardening, the RHS
works tirelessly to improve the gardener's lot. With the use of
evocative archive images and contemporary photos by award-winning
Jason Ingram, this beautiful book explores the past, present and
future of this most influential organisation by listening to the
voices of those working today. Gardening expert and regular
Gardener's Question Time panellist Matthew Biggs tells this story
in rich and intimate detail, from the society's origins at the
start of the 19th Century right through to the present day, with
fascinating insight into the evolution and operations of the RHS
throughout the years. From the thousands of volunteers in the
society's five unique gardens (Wisley in Surrey, Rosemoor in Devon,
Hyde Hall in Essex, Harlow Carr in Yorkshire and new addition
Bridgewater in Salford), to the one million visitors to its
inspirational flower shows (including Chelsea, Hampton Court,
Tatton Park, Cardiff, Wisley and Chatsworth); the society gives
meaning to more than 475,000 members, millions of television
viewers and visitors from around the world. The RHS is the best of
gardening, and this book presents the best of the RHS. Behind the
scenes, access all areas, this book will give lasting pleasure to
anyone who enjoys their garden.
Matthew Biggs has been a professional gardener for over 20 years.
In this comprehensive book, Matthew Biggs shares his extensive
knowledge on a wide variety of vegetables and inspires the gardener
to take on the fulfilling activity of vegetable growing. His advice
is practical as well as encouraging and is applicable to the
backyard, garden, glasshouse and kitchen. With an A-Z of vegetables
and sections on the history of vegetable growing, harvesting and
storing and over 200 recipes for vegetables in the kitchen, this is
the practical guide that keen gardeners and beginners alike have
been waiting for.
Like heirloom seeds and grafts from trees, advice from great
gardeners handed down through the centuries has shaped the science
and art of gardens across the globe. Spanning gardeners from
fifteenth-century Japan to the contemporary United States, Lessons
from the Great Gardeners profiles forty groundbreaking botanists,
nurserymen, and tillers of earth, men and women whose passion,
innovation, and green thumbs endure in the formal landscapes and
vegetable patches of today. Entries for each gardening great
highlight their iconic plants and garden designs, revealing both
the gardeners' own influences and the seeds--sometimes
literal--that they sowed for gardens yet to sprout. From Andre Le
Notre in seventeenth-century France, who drew on his training as an
architect and hydraulic engineer to bring the topiary form to
Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, to the work of High Line and Lurie
Garden designer Piet Oudolf, and Thomas Jefferson's advice on
creating protected garden microclimates for help growing early
crops and tender fruit like figs (with peas, a Jefferson favorite),
Lessons from the Great Gardeners is a resource as rich as the soil
from which it springs. Featuring lush illustrations harvested from
the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society, as well as
sections on a dozen international gardens that showcase the lessons
of the greats, this homage to the love of good, clean dirt is sure
to inspire readers to get out in the sun and dig.
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