The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid ...
Passion Plants and Patronage takes readers on a luscious voyage through three centuries of Bute family commissioned gardens. Art, architecture and landscape have come ...
Gertrude Jekyll, the esteemed British horticulturist, garden designer and writer, is lauded by many as a premier influence in landscape design. Her concept of ...
Durante el siglo XVIII, Madrid vive uno de los capítulos más apasionantes de su historia urbanística. Se erigen monumentos emblemáticos, se abren paseos y ...
The first major illustrated monograph in many years on the history of gardens, landscape design, and architecture, focusing on both the Western and Eastern ...
Gardening became a popular pastime in Victorian Britain with the rise of suburban gardens and a passion for the outdoors. New plant introductions from ...
Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich mens' folly and whimsy, but they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental. Today they ...
The Pinturesque was an aesthetic concept that aroused enormous interest and some controversy, towards the end of the eighteenth century. It was a way ...
This second volume of Hertfordshire garden history considers how Hertfordshire's historic parks and gardens - some still existing, many others lost - have been ...
First published in 1892, this work by the architect Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856-1942), illustrated by Francis Inigo Thomas (1865-1950), uses historical evidence to vindicate ...
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was one of the most important figures in English garden history although he is rarely recognised as such. An eclectic ...
