How to Read Gardens
A Crash Course in Garden Appreciation
$41.57
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
26 December 2019
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781789940282 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1789940281 |
| Author: | Lorraine Harrison |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Herbert Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 26 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 134mm x 164mm |
| Series: | How to Read |
Critics Review
This handy pocket sized guidebook would be a useful companion for visitors to any garden, great or small, historic or modern, public or private. * Countryman *
This attractive and lavishly illustrated book is an ideal present for friends who claim not to know much about the history of gardens, but delight in visiting them * Cornwall Garden Trust Journal *
Lorraine Harrison
Lorraine Harrison has a master’s degree in Garden History from the University of London and has written several books on the subject. She is a successful gardener and gardening writer with a passion for exotic and heirloom vegetables and regularly contributes to Gardens Illustrated and Hortus. When not tending her own plot, she enjoys other people’s gardens whether large or small, grand or humble.
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