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 | This volume describes the gardens of the Alhambra, Spains most visited monument. Started during the Islamic conquest of Spain, it contains a dazzling series of lace-like courtyards, a well as the gardens of the Generallife. Outside the fortress walls of the Alhambra, the Gardens of the Architect have symmetrical beds of flowering plants framed by romantic architecture and enlivened by the sound of water from myriad fountains and bubbling pools. ...
Amazon / Thames & Hudson / Book
 Price: 168.27 $ |  | This work illustrates important gardens of the world and major developments in garden history. As well as special sections on Chinese and Japanese gardening, the book also covers a range of gardens and styles, from Roman peristyle and French Formal style to native plant gardens in the New World. ...
Amazon / Trans-Atlantic Pubns / Book
Price: 151.60 $ |  | This volume describes the gardens of the Alhambra, Spains most visited monument. Started during the Islamic conquest of Spain, it contains a dazzling series of lace-like courtyards, a well as the gardens of the Generallife. Outside the fortress walls of the Alhambra, the Gardens of the Architect have symmetrical beds of flowering plants framed by romantic architecture and enlivened by the sound of water from myriad fountains and bubbling pools. ...
Amazon / Vendome Press / Book
Price: 127.39 $ |  | This work offers a practical and informative guide to achieving the maximum from your garden in the minimum of time. It aims to help those with limited patience, with little time to spare for gardening chores, to achieve positive results in as short a space of time as possible. The book features six original schemes for complete gardens ranging from the one-season formal garden to an instant, low-maintenance woodland garden. Chapters cover all the many materials and strutures suitable for use in ...
Amazon / Conran Octopus / Book
Price: 88.04 $ |  | The Marchioness of Salisburys re-creation of the great gardens at Hatfield House has been one of the most exciting garden enterprises of the last 30 years. This is Lady Salisburys own account of the gardens, their history and her work there, to accompany the photographs taken by Sue Snell over 8 years. This signed copy of the book will delight anyone with an interest in garden history and in one of Britains greatest gardens. ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd / Book
Price: 87.87 $ |  | The Majorelle Gardens of Marrakech were laid out in the 1920s by Louis Majorelle, the French decorator, architect and painter renowned for his participation in both the art nouveau and art deco movements. He gave his name to the shade of blue lavishly used to paint the house and ornament the garden decoration. The site has been restored and replanted by the designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge in the vibrant primary colours of the original, to which they have added their pers ...
Amazon / Vendome Press / Book
Price: 80.00 $ |  | This encyclopedia by a distinguished American horticulturist is the most authoritative and best-illustrated reference ever published on ornamental grasses. Rick Darke has been studying and photographing grasses in gardens and native landscapes around the world for more than 20 years, and this book includes the best 500 photographs from his collection of nearly 15,000. At its heart is the illustrated alphabetical encyclopedia of important ornamental grasses, sedges, rushes, restios, cat-tails, an ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 69.95 $ |  | If the world is to make great gardens again, we must both discover and apply in the changed circumstances of modern life the principles that guided the garden-makers in the Renaissance, and must be ready to learn all that science can teach us concerning the laws of artistic presentment. - Sir Robert Sitwell, On the Making of Gardens, 1909, quoted by the author in his Introduction.Air conditioned villas in ancient Rome...windproofed, solar-heated stone seats for toasty-winter horizon-gazing in th ...
Amazon / McGraw-Hill Professional / Book
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Amazon / Vendome Press / Book
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Amazon / Westcliff Pub Inc / Book
Price: 50.77 $ |  | To many of us, the great gardens of Italy seem like paradise on earth. But how much do we know of their history, and the people who created them? In this ravishing book, illustrated with contemporary paintings, drawings and prints as well as photographs of the gardens today, Helena Attlee tells their story. She starts with Petrarch – still looking to medieval chronicles for advice on how and when to plant – and goes on to the Renaissance and those first gardens to emerge from architects plans. T ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 42.99 $ |  | The Berkshires of western Massachusetts and surrounding New York and Connecticut foothills includes many fine gardens-public and private, and grand and intimate. This lavishly illustrated book takes you on a broad-ranging tour of the most outstanding examples, from historically significant gardens to innovative contemporary landscapes. Green thumbs, garden tourists, and armchair gardeners alike will find inspiration here, along with garden history and tips about design principles, plant selectio ...
Amazon / Down East Books / Book
Price: 42.25 $ |  | Roman Gardens: Villas of the Countryside is the first in a two-volume set; the second, Roman Gardens: Villas of the City , was published in 1998. In this volume, photographer Roberto Schezen, together with Italian art historian Marcello Fagiolo, explores the fantastic villas and great gardens located within a thirty-mile radius around Rome, in the region of Lazio. The wealthy and cultured cardinals and princes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries built rural retreats with elaborate gardens ...
Amazon / The Monacelli Press / Book
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