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How to Read Gardens

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How to Read Gardens Synopsis

How to Read Gardens is the essential guide for garden lovers and visitors alike. Visiting gardens has never been more popular but not many of us understand what we are looking at when strolling through a beautiful garden - are we looking at an original landscaped site or a recreation? 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. How to Read Gardens gives you all the knowledge you need to tease out the clues that will tell you the complete story of a garden's past. From the grandest estate to the smallest suburban plot, this book will enliven and inform every visit.

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ISBN: 9781789940282
Publication date: 26th December 2019
Author: Lorraine Harrison
Publisher: Herbert Press Ltd an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: How to Read
Genres: Landscape architecture and design
Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest
Landscape gardening
Landscape archaeology
The countryside, country life: general interest