Author: Sharon White
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city's ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home. In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; and their son, writer and naturalist William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept a record of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth century, and Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant collector, and namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae. Throughout White weaves passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs from significant Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose, transforming each place she examines into a palimpsest of the underlying earth and the human landscapes layered over it. White gives a surprising portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. She shows that although gardens may vanish forever, the meaning and solace inherent in the act of gardening are always waiting to be discovered anew.
Vanished Gardens
Author: Sharon White
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city's ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home. In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; and their son, writer and naturalist William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept a record of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth century, and Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant collector, and namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae. Throughout White weaves passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs from significant Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose, transforming each place she examines into a palimpsest of the underlying earth and the human landscapes layered over it. White gives a surprising portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. She shows that although gardens may vanish forever, the meaning and solace inherent in the act of gardening are always waiting to be discovered anew.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city's ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home. In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; and their son, writer and naturalist William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept a record of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth century, and Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant collector, and namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae. Throughout White weaves passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs from significant Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose, transforming each place she examines into a palimpsest of the underlying earth and the human landscapes layered over it. White gives a surprising portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. She shows that although gardens may vanish forever, the meaning and solace inherent in the act of gardening are always waiting to be discovered anew.
A Vanished Garden
Author: Walter Scott
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Languages : en
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A Book of Gardens
Author: Alfred H. Hyatt
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Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Vanished Gardens
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The Missing Garden Gnome
Author: Sylvia Day
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467885134
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467885134
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age
Author: Michael Leslie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350995878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350995878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
Vanished Gardens
Author: Sharon White
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331562
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The author explores Philadelphia as a part of its ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home, in a portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in the urban environment of Philadelphia.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331562
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The author explores Philadelphia as a part of its ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home, in a portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in the urban environment of Philadelphia.
The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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The Garden Magazine
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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