How to Read Gardens A Crash Course in Garden Appreciation
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Biografisk notat
Lorraine Harrison has a master’s degree in Garden History from the University of London and has written several books on the subject. She is a successful gardener and gardening writer with a passion for exotic and heirloom vegetables and regularly contributes to Gardens Illustrated and Hortus. When not tending her own plot, she enjoys other people's gardens whether large or small, grand or humble.How to Read Gardens A Crash Course in Garden Appreciation
This handy pocket sized guidebook would be a useful companion for visitors to any garden, great or small, historic or modern, public or private.
Countryman
This attractive and lavishly illustrated book is an ideal present for friends who claim not to know much about the history of gardens, but delight in visiting them
Cornwall Garden Trust Journal
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.
Foreword
Introduction
Types of Garden
Styles of Garden
Trees
Plants & Flowers
Landscape Features
Garden Buildings
Features
Appendices
Glossary
Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
The ‘How to Read’ books are practical introductions to both natural and man-made items around us such as castles, landscapes, churches, bridges, gardens and many more.
The guides are small enough to carry in your pocket and serious enough to provide real answers, offering detailed illustrations and intelligent text.
This handy pocket sized guidebook would be a useful companion for visitors to any garden, great or small, historic or modern, public or private.
Countryman
This attractive and lavishly illustrated book is an ideal present for friends who claim not to know much about the history of gardens, but delight in visiting them
Cornwall Garden Trust Journal
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.
Foreword
Introduction
Types of Garden
Styles of Garden
Trees
Plants & Flowers
Landscape Features
Garden Buildings
Features
Appendices
Glossary
Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
The ‘How to Read’ books are practical introductions to both natural and man-made items around us such as castles, landscapes, churches, bridges, gardens and many more.
The guides are small enough to carry in your pocket and serious enough to provide real answers, offering detailed illustrations and intelligent text.