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Great Gardens, Great Designers George Plumptre

Great Gardens, Great Designers By George Plumptre

Great Gardens, Great Designers by George Plumptre


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Plumptre examines the gardens of some of the greatest garden designers. The course of contemporary garden design is charted and the designers set against this background. The work of 15 designers is viewed in over 30 gardens and the themes, ideas and lessons that emerged are drawn together. Originally published in 1994.

Great Gardens, Great Designers Summary

Great Gardens, Great Designers by George Plumptre

The essence of good garden design is a certain intangible quality that remains for some gardeners something they can only admire. George Plumptre sets out to explain this magic and how it can be created. Firstly, he charts the development of contemporary garden design from the late-19th century to the present; then he focuses on the work of the great designers from Britain, America and Europe. Finally, the author looks at the structure of modern gardens.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The evolution of contemporary garden design - the start: reaction to the Victorian garden; from arts and Crafts to the Edwardian garden; classical or modern in the United States and Britain; the post-war garden - quality in variety; the future - garden and landscape as one. Part 2 Great designers and their gardens: Thomas Mawson, Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens; Harold Peto; Thomas Church; Beatrix Farrand; Fletcher Steele; Lawrence Johnson and Vita Sackville-West; Brenda Colvin; Geoffrey Jellicoe; Russel Page; Lanning Roper; John Brookes; Preben Jakobsen; Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden. Part 3 The essence of good garden design: architecture and planning; the garden's shape; border planting; water in the garden.

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GOR002147526
9780706374537
0706374533
Great Gardens, Great Designers by George Plumptre
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Octopus Publishing Group
19960100
160
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