Gardens (descriptions, history etc) books

This work on knot gardens is split into two parts. The first looks at the history of the knot garden, showing how...  Read More >>

"Part of the ""Merry Hall"" trilogy, this title deals with the author's garden as well as his house, including the...  Read More >>

A Colorado gardener muses on the joys and lessons of the end of the gardening season, reflecting on his childhood...  Read More >>

Her postscript describes the ultimate fate of the region's eighteenth century gardens-some of which survive (in...  Read More >>

The Chinese Garden presents the fundamentals of Chinese garden design.  Read More >>

A study of the development of cookery in the 17th and 18th centuries.  Read More >>

Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy, history of...  Read More >>

This is the fifth of six parts of a facsimile reprint of a compendium of cookery, gardening, animal husbandry and...  Read More >>

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An outline of market gardening around London before 1800. The focus of the book's theme is an account, based on...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to over 100 gardens in Britain, this volume includes information on: garden history; local...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to over 100 gardens in France, this volume includes information on: garden history; local...  Read More >>

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This attractive picture book showcases 19 of Florida's particularly beautiful and interesting gardens in all their...  Read More >>

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Including public as well as previously unknown gardens, this guide provides the history, architecture and plants...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of the Windsor parks and gardens, where generations of gardeners, architects, and farmers...  Read More >>

The story of these two journeys is separated by almost a century, but united by the timeless Italian gardens.  Read More >>

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"Roman Gardens: Villas of the Countryside is the first in a two-volume set; the second, Roman Gardens: Villas of...  Read More >>

Join Alan Emmet on a tour of gardens that graced New England from just after the American Revolution into the 20th...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between the colour theories of the Impressionists and their art of gardening and helps...  Read More >>

Unlike architecture, sculpture or painting, the art of gardening produces living works that grow, blossom, change,...  Read More >>

This handsome book, by one of Japan's great photographers, offers a tour of nearly 100 classic gardens and landscapes,...  Read More >>

Comprehensive descriptive account of the Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbioideae tribe Euphorbieae) native and naturalised...  Read More >>