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£22.00
In the heart of bustling European and American cities lies an overlooked yet vibrant corner of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens. From pre-Industrial England to modern-day Washington, via the Paris Commune, Barrackia in pre-war Berlin, Soviet allotments in Estonia, the orchards tended by Black migrants in Washington and food forests in contemporary Amsterdam, ordinary people, working with each other and with nature, cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Over the past three hundred years, these tiny gardens, often born from necessity and shaped by precarity, immigration and environmental crisis, thrived by recycling nutrients, remedying contaminated soil and transforming how we think about our relationship to the earth. This title is a hymn to the most fertile agriculture in recorded human history, showing that it occurred not on farms but with little effort in small garden beds.
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£16.99
A glorious photographic record of the postwar English gardening scene by one of the people at its epicentre. Roald Dahl and his family in their garden at Great Missenden; Nancy Lancaster, society hostess and interior designer, sporting an elegant straw sombrero and snipping delicately at her roses; Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst – these and many other dedicated gardeners are captured here by the discerning eye of Valerie Finnis. With a spectacular cast of characters at home in their gardens, weeding, inspecting, watering and standing proudly by their plants, wearing the clothes and fashions of the day, and epitomizing life and society in the second half of the 20th century, this book will be devoured by anyone with a love of British gardens or horticulture in general.
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£40.00
From bucolic country cottages to expansive estates, this book showcases the private gardens of eighteen globally-renowned landscape architects. Featuring in-depth interviews, full garden tours and photography by Ãva Németh, the book gives an insight into the inventive and idiosyncratic ways leading designers craft their own gardens, some of which are previously unpublished. Featured designers include Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Miranda Brooks, Sarah Price, Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith, Isabel and Julian Bannerman, Arne Maynard and Mary Keen.
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£10.99
From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.
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£39.99
For over a decade, Monty Don has travelled the world, using gardens and green spaces to get under the skin of our most beloved cities and countries. Many of his destinations were well-known to him. For his latest journey, though, he explored Spain as a relative newcomer – and he kept a detailed record of his travels.Starting in Madrid and working his way north through the verdant gardens of Galicia, the Basque country and Barcelona, Monty then heads south to the rugged tropical climes of Mallorca, Alicante, Andalucia, Malaga, and Seville. It’s a chance for him to explore how Spain has evolved from the darker days after the civil war to its successful transition to democracy over fifty years ago, tracing those changes through its gardens – from the more conventional gardens created after the war to the rich and inventive approaches of contemporary designers.Accompanied by Derry Moore’s stunning photography, Spanish Gardens is a remarkabl
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£30.00
A glorious celebration of the greatest gardens, parks and landscapes in Britain, curated by the prestigious organisation The Gardens Trust.
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£40.00
The English Landscape Garden is a beautifully photographed celebration of the best of the 18th century English landscape garden – a quintessentially British art form that influenced the rest of the world.
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£30.00
The Botanic Garden takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens, as it tours the most magnificent botanic havens in the world.
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£30.00
Earthly Utopias is a visual tour of the best religious and spiritual gardens around the world.
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£20.00
From one of our most original contemporary voices, The Garden Against Time is an inventive and deeply felt exploration of the long dream of a shared Eden, a common paradise.
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£9.99
Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the 18th century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of the French Baroque were replaced by artificial landscapes almost indistinguishable from natural scenery. What continues to govern our notions of a beautiful landscape, even today, is the ideal image of nature conceived by 18th-century English landscape gardeners. Hans von Trotha’s journey through the history of the English garden introduces us to 12 of the most important, original, and beautiful parks in Britain, all of which can be visited today. On the way, we learn how the new landscape garden was born of the spirit of political opposition. We also learn of the significance of imitation Greek temples and Gothic ruins.
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£8.50
An easy to use guide to over 50 of the finest gardens in Sussex
