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.
| ISBN: | 9781789940282 |
| Publication date: | 26th December 2019 |
| Author: | Lorraine Harrison |
| Publisher: | Herbert Press an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | How to Read |
| Genres: |
Landscape architecture and design Landscape gardening The countryside, country life: general interest Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest Landscape archaeology Gardens (descriptions, history etc) |
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.
How to Read Gardens features in the following genres: Landscape architecture and design, Landscape gardening, The countryside, country life: general interest, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Landscape archaeology, Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
How to Read Gardens is available in Paperback
How to Read Gardens was written by Lorraine Harrison and published by Herbert Press an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
How to Read Gardens has 256 pages
Yes it is part of How to Read series
£13.49