How to Read Gardens: A Crash Course in Garden Appreciation Contributor(s): Harrison, Lorraine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1782406034 ISBN-13: 9781782406037 Publisher: Ivy Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2018 * Out of Print * Click for more in this series: How to Read |
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BISAC Categories: - Gardening |
Series: How to Read |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 6.8" L (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
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Publisher Description: Garden visiting has never been so popular but how many of us really understand what we are looking at when strolling through a beautiful garden? Are we looking at an original landscaped site or a re-creation? Is the planting matter authentic or made up of modern hybrids? Are the steps and terracing in the Italianate style or are they Arts and Crafts? The truth is that most gardens of any age are like a palimpsest: successive generations have changed and influenced the soft and hard fabric of the place over time. Inevitably many of the gardens we wander through today are an amalgam of changing fashions and circumstance. Garden landscapes can plot the rise and fall of a family's fortunes, record man's exploratory spirit through the introduction of foreign plant species, and chart the destruction (and regeneration) caused by natural disasters. |
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