Author: Thomas Hill
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Thomas Hill
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Patrick Kinmonth
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9781861542496
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Includes chapters on gardeners and others associated with gardening. Each chapter includes a portrait of the subject, photographs of their work and a text by the subject. Subjects include Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finaly, Charles Jencks, Roy Strong and Julia Trevelyan Oman.

Author: Thomas Hill
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Languages : en
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Author: Rebecca W. Bushnell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801441431
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern "books of secrets," early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily's hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. Green Desire describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men's and women's roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world--not so different from the dreams of gardeners today.

Author: Margie Grace
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423654153
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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An exclusive look at the exquisite residential gardens of the American Riviera. Private Gardens of Santa Barbara is an invitation into eighteen distinctive private, and beautiful gardens; large estates, modest homes, and surf retreats run the gamut from sublime and naturalistic to bold and urban. What they have in common, however, is what makes them truly inspiring. Showcased through 190 stunning images in more than 250 pages in this elegant coffee table book format, each beautiful landscape represents a widely varied garden style developed in response to the unique character of each site, the architecture, and the larger environment; and adapted to the lifestyle, personality, and practical needs of the individuals and families who live there. In a career that spans over 30 years, Margie Grace, principal of Grace Design Associates, has established herself as an expert in sustainable landscape design and advocate for environmentally sensitive gardens. These gardens offer endless inspiration for sustainable home garden design, created with water-smart, maintenance-smart, and fire-smart priorities in mind, with high habitat value and plants well adapted to the Southern California climate of Santa Barbara.

Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1084

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Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Leonard MEAGER
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Languages : en
Pages : 192

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