Author: Nancy Boghossian Keeler
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Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Gardens in Perpetual Bloom
Author: Nancy Boghossian Keeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Gardens in Perpetual Bloom
Author: Nancy Boghossian Keeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes that catalogued the elaborate and extensive gardens of the well-to-do. But when Carl Linnaeus first classified the plant kingdom in 1735, the botanical book quickly took on a more scientific cast. By the nineteenth century, the flourishing of botanical publications reflected both the rapid rise of gardening as an amateur hobby and the desire of artists and decorators for new visual resources. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom: Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850 traces the appreciation of flowers and their depiction, from the studious world of monks and princes to the era of the gardening enthusiast. The book's 110 prints and drawings--which include masterful engravings by Georg Dionysus Ehret, the eighteenth century's most accomplished botanical artist, and hand-colored prints by Pierre-Joseph Redout , the premier draftsman of flowers for Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte--are remarkable for their technical virtuosity, delicate tonalities, scientific accuracy and seemingly infinite variety. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom is both a valuable historical survey and an affordable, attractively designed volume of jewel-like beauty.
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes that catalogued the elaborate and extensive gardens of the well-to-do. But when Carl Linnaeus first classified the plant kingdom in 1735, the botanical book quickly took on a more scientific cast. By the nineteenth century, the flourishing of botanical publications reflected both the rapid rise of gardening as an amateur hobby and the desire of artists and decorators for new visual resources. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom: Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850 traces the appreciation of flowers and their depiction, from the studious world of monks and princes to the era of the gardening enthusiast. The book's 110 prints and drawings--which include masterful engravings by Georg Dionysus Ehret, the eighteenth century's most accomplished botanical artist, and hand-colored prints by Pierre-Joseph Redout , the premier draftsman of flowers for Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte--are remarkable for their technical virtuosity, delicate tonalities, scientific accuracy and seemingly infinite variety. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom is both a valuable historical survey and an affordable, attractively designed volume of jewel-like beauty.
The Ever-Blooming Flower Garden
Author: Lee Schneller
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1603426523
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Make your garden bloom with spectacular color throughout the entire season. Lee Schneller’s simple, no-fail formula teaches you how to select flowers and create a blueprint for a garden that will remain vibrant from early spring through the last days of autumn. With strategies and tips for gardens of all sizes and soil types, and a stunning photograph-filled catalog of 220 easy-to-care-for plants, you’ll have plenty of options for personalizing your garden’s colorful and long-lasting style.
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1603426523
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Make your garden bloom with spectacular color throughout the entire season. Lee Schneller’s simple, no-fail formula teaches you how to select flowers and create a blueprint for a garden that will remain vibrant from early spring through the last days of autumn. With strategies and tips for gardens of all sizes and soil types, and a stunning photograph-filled catalog of 220 easy-to-care-for plants, you’ll have plenty of options for personalizing your garden’s colorful and long-lasting style.
My Garden (Book)
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466828749
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466828749
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
The Garden
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Ideal Garden
Author: Harry Higgott Thomas
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Perpetual Garden
Author: Maddison Colvin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Photographs, scans, paintings, drawings, and an essay by Maddison Colvin.This book captures time and transience in the garden via text and image. Flowers silently bloom in the night, rushing towards death. Plants transubstantiate, are torn out, emerge anew, writhe with insects. A garden wall keeps in a scent, keeps out a lover. Seeds travel continents on the soles of boots, in Hatshepsut's barques, and in the pockets of priests and profiteers. Suffragettes smash orchid houses at Kew and a housewife feels herself unraveling at the sight of a garden catalog. In the desert of Utah, the author plants sunflowers while the mountain above her burns.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Photographs, scans, paintings, drawings, and an essay by Maddison Colvin.This book captures time and transience in the garden via text and image. Flowers silently bloom in the night, rushing towards death. Plants transubstantiate, are torn out, emerge anew, writhe with insects. A garden wall keeps in a scent, keeps out a lover. Seeds travel continents on the soles of boots, in Hatshepsut's barques, and in the pockets of priests and profiteers. Suffragettes smash orchid houses at Kew and a housewife feels herself unraveling at the sight of a garden catalog. In the desert of Utah, the author plants sunflowers while the mountain above her burns.
A Year Full of Flowers
Author: Sarah Raven
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526640392
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven's style – and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden. A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time. Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that's full of life and colour. Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through winter, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks. This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it's also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life – this book shows you how you can too.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526640392
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all-year round Colour and scent are the hallmarks of Sarah Raven's style – and they are simple luxuries that everyone can bring into their garden. A Year Full of Flowers reveals the hundreds of hardworking varieties that make the garden sing each month, together with the practical tasks that ensure everything is planted, staked and pruned at just the right time. Tracing the year from January to December at her home, Perch Hill, Sarah offers a complete and transporting account of a garden crafted over decades. Sharing the lessons learned from years of plant trials, she explains the methods that have worked for her, and shows you how to achieve a space that's full of life and colour. Discover long-lasting, divinely scented tulips, roses that keep flowering through winter, the most magnificent dahlias and show-stopping alliums, as well as how to grow sweet peas up a teepee, take cuttings from chrysanthemums and stop mildew in its tracks. This is passionate, life-enriching gardening; it's also simple, adaptable and can work for you. Sarah has made the garden central to her life – this book shows you how you can too.
Garden Life
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Gardeners' Chronicle
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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