The Story of Gardening Penelope Hobhouse
Describes the rich cultural and historical influences that have shaped today's gardens and continue to inspire modern garden designers. Beautifully illustrated with magnificent photographs and lyrical text.
The Story of Gardening
The Story of Gardening
Résumé
This illustrated history charts the evolution of gardening over thousands of years, bringing to life the world's most beautiful and magnificent gardens. Penelope Hobhouse provides the historical context as well as giving an insight into the influences that have inspired her own designs.
The Story of Gardening Résumé
The Story of Gardening Avis
English queen of garden writing and world famous garden designer, Penelope Hobhouse, presents the history of gardening in an ambitious work charting garden history from the Ancient World through to the present day. From excavations at the pyramids it is clear the pharaohs cherished their gardens and despite water shortages spent small fortunes on building mini oasis' for their enjoyment. The Romans and Ancient Greeks created gardens, cultivating most importantly, medicinal plants, assiduously chronicled by Diosciorades. From the enclosed pleasure gardens of the Medieval Age, tulipomania, the discovery of the Americas and its botanical importance, the rolling landscapes of the 1800s, the great plant-hunters and explosion of botanical knowledge during Victoria's reign through to today's gardens with their fusion of modern and past, Hobhouse paints a vivid picture of the garden's development through the ages. With an incredible number of colour illustrations and photographs, this is both a visual and literal history of world gardening, cleverly pulled together by Penelope Hobhouse to present the definitive guide on the subject. - Lucy Watson
À propos de Penelope Hobhouse
Penelope Hobhouse is the doyenne of gardening, the recipient of the Guild of Garden Writers Lifetime Achievement Award and the winner of the RHS Victoria medal of honour. Penelope has written many books including; Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening, Colour in Your Garden and Garden Style.
Sommaire
In the beginning - the origins of gardening; our classical heritage - Ancient Greece and Roman gardens; the gardens of Islam - heavenly beauty, earthly delight; pleasure and piety - medieval gardens of Christendom; the renaissance vision - the flowering of the European garden; plants on the move - botanists, collectors and artists; a natural revolution - the English landscape garden; the eclectic 19th century novelties, inventions and revivals; the Americas - new horizons in horticulture; gardens of China - a timeless tradition; Japanese style - symbolism and restraint; a time of change - from naturalism to modernism 1870-1950; today and tomorrow - a world of opportunities.
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GOR001593278
9780751333909
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The Story of Gardening Penelope Hobhouse
Occasion - Très bon état
Relié
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
20021031
468
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