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The Thrifty Gardener: How to Create a Stylish Garden for Next to Nothing
Alys Fowler
(2008 - New Edition)
Paperback - 192 pages
Kyle Cathie
ISBN: 1856267776
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Gardening is something you do,not something you buy. You don't have to spend money to have a great garden. Slow gardening - like slow food - is taking time to savour. It's the process, not this sudden transformation that matters. When you build a little, dig a bit, plant a little, harvest often and more importantly don't try and do it all at once, nature will work for you. For this is gardening that won't cost the earth. This is a book that will eliminate the intimidation factor and reveal the ins and outs of soil, seeds, sowing and growing. Designed to be highly appropriate for beginners, it will cover the basics like planning, planting and pruning using organic and inexpensive methods. Its quirky projects and thrifty ethic will mean that it reaches beyond the usual gardening audience - this book is for those who would rather be found hunting through a skip than be seen in a garden centre.
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The Gardens of Russell Page
Gabrielle Van Zuylen
(2008 - New Edition)
Hardcover - 256 pages
Frances Lincoln Publishers
ISBN: 0711226946
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A new edition, completely redesigned and including new photographs, of the classic account of Russell Page's garden designs. Perhaps the greatest garden designer of the twentieth century, Russell Page (1906-85) was trained as an artist, and brought an architectural sensibility and a keen eye for style to the many vast garden projects that he undertook. With the assistance and co-operation of Page's clients, Schinz and van Zuylen have researched and photographed all of his best work, both early and late, and some now no longer extant. Through his private files and unpublished writing, the man and his work are brought into sharp focus, and over 250 photographs capture the special beauty of his creations in England, America and throughout continental Europe.
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On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries
Richard Reynolds
(2008)
Hardcover - 256 pages
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747590818
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
When Richard Reynolds began planting flowers secretly at night outside his tower block in South London, he had no idea that he was part of a growing global movement committed to combating the forces of neglect, land shortage and apathy towards public spaces. But before long, his blog had attracted other guerrillas from around the world to share their experiences of the horticultural frontline, and is now a focal point for guerrilla gardeners everywhere, with over 4,000 people enlisted as recruits. "On Guerrilla Gardening" is Reynolds' lively, colourful treatise on why people illicitly cultivate land and how to do it yourself. From discreetly beautifying corners of Montreal to striving for green communal space in Berlin and sustainable food production in San Francisco, from Christmas trees on London roundabouts to the political agitations of landless workers in Brazil, Reynolds charts a battle that people worldwide are fighting on many different fronts. Along the way he unearths the movement's notable historic advances by seventeenth-century English radicals, a nineteenth-century American entrepreneur and public-spirited artists in 1970s New York.
Reynolds has researched the subject with guerrilla gardeners from thirty different countries, and compiles their advice on what to grow where, how to cope with adverse environmental conditions, how to seed-bomb effectively, how to harness propaganda to win support and even how to handle anti-terror police. "On Guerrilla Gardening" informs, entertains and inspires. Packed with photographs, anecdotes and sound horticultural advice, it is an irresistible invitation to shoulder your shovel and join the revolution that is blooming in the world's shared spaces.
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The Kitchen Gardener: Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg
Alan Titchmarsh
(2008)
Hardcover - 256 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 1846072018
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Allotments with ten-year waiting lists; fruit and veg seeds outselling those of flowers - Britain is growing a passion for home produce and the time is right for the nation's favourite gardener to provide the definitive book on the subject. Alan's comprehensive guide will tell you everything you could possibly want or need to know about fruit and veg and how to grow it, including herbs, baby veg, salads, every-day fruits plus gourmet or unusual varieties, and how to fit them into today's stylish small gardens. As well as providing the key facts needed to yield good results and what to do when things go wrong, the text is sprinkled with Alan's personal observations, anecdotes, culinary tips and quirky historical uses.The book takes a very practical approach, starting from scratch for the benefit of anyone who's never grown their own before, but is also ideal for those with some experience who might be growing edibles in a new way - perhaps in a small space that needs to look attractive, or on a new allotment.
Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 250 photographs and artworks, this inspirational and authoritative fruit and veg bible from the UK's best-selling and most influential gardener will become a classic in the genre.
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Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
Daniel E. Williams
(2007)
Hardcover - 304 pages
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471709530
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this book, Daniel Williams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope, "Sustainable Design" answers key questions such as: How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically? What is the difference between 'green design' and 'sustainable design'? What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost? Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects' and urban planners' work. Williams' book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.
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Around The World In 80 Gardens
Monty Don
(2008)
Hardcover - 288 pages
Weidenfeld & Nicolson General
ISBN: 0297844504
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
'If I have learned only one thing from my travels around the world it is that no garden is an island. Context is everything.' Monty Don visits each continent in this landmark series on gardens of the world. We are introduced to the unique floating gardens of the Amazon and the colourful alpine flower meadows of Norway, modest domestic gardens in Havana and Bali, Monet's world-famous Giverny and the Dutch tour-de-force Het Loo, the formal magnificence of Renaissance Italian water gardens, the tropical planting traditions of Thailand, and the intriguing fusion of indigenous and colonial garden cultures in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Each garden is placed in context, horticultural preconceptions are abandoned and Monty is constantly surprised by the unexpected locations where gardens thrive. A vivid account of travel, adventure, beauty and the pursuit of knowledge.
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Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens
(2007)
Hardcover - 384 pages
Frances Lincoln Publishers
ISBN: 0711225354
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This book is a biography of Winston Churchill through the houses he lived in and the gardens he made. It culminates with the full story of his purchase, alteration and creation of Chartwell, Kent, where he lived for more than forty years before and after the war, and which is now owned and run by the National Trust in keeping with his intentions. Churchill was born amidst the splendour of Blenheim Palace but, ever a restless spirit, he owned or rented many houses, both grand and relatively modest, over the course of his long life, including country retreats, modern town apartments and, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiralty House. But it was his house at Chartwell that would be for ever associated with the name Churchill. Based on extensive and scholarly archive study, this unique book brings to light an array of previously unpublished details and reveals a fascinating side to Britain's greatest war leader. Winston Churchill was named the Greatest Briton of all time in a BBC poll that attracted nearly a million votes. He remains a hugely popular figure. This is the first book on Churchill to focus on this relatively private aspect of his character. It contains material from the Churchill archives, including reproductions of his paintings.
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Making the Modern Garden
Christopher Bradley-Hole
(2007)
Hardcover - 192 pages
Mitchell Beazley
ISBN: 1840007869
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
An opening chapter, The Poetry, explains how the modern garden has evolved. The book is then split into a series of thematic chapters. The Grammar looks at the basic structure of garden design from initial thoughts, inspiration from the landscape, understanding of proportion, and underlying influences such as art and architecture; The Narrative considers styles of different types of modernist gardens, including roof gardens, courtyard gardens, urban gardens, country gardens, and landscape gardens; this chapter then looks at creative ways of using an ever-changing palette of plants in the modernist garden.
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Collins Tree Guide
Owen Johnson
(2006)
Paperback - 464 pages
Collins
ISBN: 0007207719
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The definitive, fully-illustrated guide to the trees of Britain and non-Mediterranean Europe. This brand-new field guide to the trees of northern Europe contains some of the finest original tree illustrations ever produced. The introduction contains illustrations of the main leaves, buds, and firs you are likely to find, and these provide the starting point for identification by leading you to a 'key' species. Within each tree family there is a list of key species and a guide to the most important features to look for when identifying a particular tree from that family. Then individual species are clearly described and a detailed illustration is given on the same page. Covering all the tree species found outside the major arboretums, from the olive tree to the eucalyptus, this is one of the most important tree guides to have appeared in the last 20 years. The illustrations are annotated with essential identification features, and the text highlights the most important things to look for to aid fast and accurate identification. There is also coverage of all the species native to Southern Europe.
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The New Outdoor Kitchen
Debra Krasner
(2007)
Hardcover - 240 pages
Taunton Press Inc.
ISBN: 1561588040
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Debra Krasner teaches how you can create a glorious al fresco kitchen no matter how limited your "good weather" season, garden size or budget. First you'll be inspired by 300 beautiful, full-colour outdoor kitchen photos and profiles, then this unique new guide will help you create your own, with expert advice on everything from floors to stoves and sinks. She offers guidance every step of the way for planning an outdoor kitchen ideally suited to your site, style, needs and finances. This one-of-a-kind book has all you need to spark your imagination and fire up plans for your own outdoor kitchen!
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1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die
Rae Spencer-Jones (Editor)
(2007)
Paperback - 960 pages
Cassell Illustrated
ISBN: 1844034984
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
1001 Gardens is an extraordinary showcase of the best examples of man's artistic taming of nature from the world's most outstanding landscape gardeners. From the famous gardens of the Moorish Alhambra to hidden gems, such as the Leichtag family's Healing Garden, created for patients at the San Diego Children's Hospital, this lavishly illustrated guide will delight both lovers of natural beauty and gardeners alike. Covering the entire globe, the guide presents the very best example of every gardening style, whether it is the inspirational European floral display of impressionist painter Claude Monet's garden at Giverny in France or the exuberant diversity of the lush tropical gardens of Bali. Everywhere, gardens speak of the intimate relationship between man and the environment. Worldwide and from person to person our conceptions of beauty may differ, but gardeners are united in their desire to create visions of heaven on earth, places that stimulate the imagination and restore the spirit.
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Eden
Tim Smit
(2002 - New Edition)
Paperback - 329 pages
Corgi Adult
ISBN: 0552149209
Review by Amazon.co.uk:
Tim Smit, author of Eden, is obsessed with horticulture (no mere "gardening" for him). In restoring the Lost Gardens of Heligan he has become an acolyte of a great, though rarely remembered, philosophy--one that ties our welfare as a species to our relationship with plants.
The Eden Project is, in his own statement: "a vast complex of soap bubble-shaped greenhouses (the largest in the world) which interpret and explain our dependence upon the plant kingdom." Eden the book is his definitive account of the project from its beginnings--an account handsomely and often wittily illustrated (a good gift book). More importantly, it is well written.
Smit is trenchant about his aims: "Why, for God's sake, put yourself...through years of grief to build a crappy theme park so that some smartass can define it in a sentence?" he asks. By creating something more than a mere "product"--and by doing it in an old clay pit in Cornwall--Smit and his colleagues faced daunting challenges. Larger-than-life characters pepper the book which is more about people than plants.
Well over a million people have already visited the Eden Project. But this book is more than a celebration, more than a memento; it is too honest and exhaustive to be a mere statement of vision. It is, all in all, a rather unlikely bestseller--a contender for best business book of the year. --Simon Ings
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Small Urban Gardens
Simone Schleifer
(2006)
Paperback - 192 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 3822851418
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Whatever the importance of a garden, it will always be a place for relaxation, communal gatherings or sensual pleasures. The contemporary gardens collected in this book are a cross-section of current trends, notable not only for their use of new materials and construction techniques, but above all for their single, shared characteristic: in every case, they are small urban gardens. The following pages contain the most imaginative solutions: gardens that creep up facades, that nest on rooftops or squeeze into left-over spaces between adjoining walls or between a facade and the street. Clearly, gardens have become, more than ever before, a means to buffer the effects of fast-paced urban living; spaces in which to unwind, to relax and recharge one's batteries, and havens of silence in the midst of a city's bustling activity. All over the world, garden designers' strategies show us how different resources can be tapped, demonstrating how easily gardens fit in with our daily lives surrounded by concrete and asphalt, with something to offer even to the most nomadic of lifestyles.
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Scotland's Coast: A Photographer's Journey
Joe Cornish
(2005)
Hardcover - 159 pages
Aurum Press Ltd
ISBN: 1845130790
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Following the success of his best-selling First Light, Joe Cornish has now turned his attention to the magnificent scenery of Scotland's 6,000-mile coastline. He has travelled from the Mull of Galloway in the south to the tip of Unst in the Shetlands, the northernmost point in the British Isles, and from remote St Kilda out in the Atlantic to the Sands of Forvie National Nature Reserve on the North Sea to capture the enormous variety of scenery that characterises the Scottish seacoast. Some of the sites he has photographed, like St Kilda or the sandstone peaks overlooking Loch Torridon, belong to the National Trust for Scotland, but many others are privately owned; some, like the majestic Cuillins on Skye, are well-known to tourists, others are hidden coves or remote sea stacks that few visitors will ever have seen. Whatever the subject, be it a wide Hebridean vista or fragmentary patterns of ice on a frozen beach, Joe Cornish, with his artist's eye and his dramatic use of light, helps us to look at it afresh and reveals new and unsuspected beauties. In the text which accompanies his photographs he explains the aspects of each particular landscape that made it special to him, its geology, its flora, its history or its associations. The result is a stunning book book which will delight Cornish's legion of admirers and all those who have found enchantment on Scotland's wonderful coastline.
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The Winter Garden: Create a Garden That Shines Through the Forgotten Season
Val Bourne
(2006)
Hardcover - 160 pages
Cassell Illustrated, a division of the Octopus Publishing Group
ISBN: 184403481X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A garden in winter need not be grey and neglected: this book is packed with hints and tips to ensure enjoyment of your garden through the forgotten season. Val Bourne suggests trees, shrubs, seedheads, berries and evergreens that shine in winter. Her selections include interesting shapes and textures, rich colours - greens, golds, reds and purples, silvers and greys - and early flowers for the ground, containers and walls. She also shows how to create eye-catching areas using pebbles, gravel, stone, wood and bronze. Even the weather will help your scheme when a touch of frost adds a glittering finish!
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The Anxious Gardener
Roszika Parker
(2006)
Hardcover - 144 pages
Frances Lincoln Publishers
ISBN: 0711226636
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
And what gardener is not anxious? In "The Anxious Gardener" Roszika Parker wittily addresses the worries evoked by a series of gardening tasks over the course of a year. Each episode involves a dialogue between the Anxious Gardener and the Gardening Mentor, who offers practical solutions to the AG's all-too-emotional dilemmas. A third voice, belonging to Maud-Next-Door, dispenses understanding and envy in unequal measure through the latticework of trellis surrounding the AG's flowerbeds. As the AG sows the seeds of desire, is led into temptation, insists on monogamy, unwillingly accepts ageing, fails to leave well alone, this book explore the emotional life of the gardener: the envy, anxiety, guilt, rage and satisfaction unearthed, or unleashed, by the spade.
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Making Alnwick Garden: The Duchess and I
Ian August
(2006)
Hardcover - 256 pages
Pavilion Books
ISBN: 186205715X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Ian August was about to retire from his position as the Factor for the Northumberland Alnwick Estates when the Duchess asked for his help with a new project for a couple of weeks. Eight years later the project that has become Alnwick Gardens is still growing. The Duchess of Northumberland's vision was to create a beautiful public space accessible to everyone. A garden which is a place of contemplation, a place of fun, inspiration and education. This vision is now being taken forward by The Alnwick Garden Trust. Featuring a foreword by the Duchess herself, this book is the story, as told by the man who has been at the Duchess's side since the beginning, of one woman's stubborn battle to create her dream. Told in a mixture of letters, anecdotes and memoirs, Ian August captures the dramas, the dilemmas and the victories of the long battle. He has also documented the gardens' creation so here too are the before-and-after pictures of the largest Tree House in the world; of the Poison Garden; of the Cascade; of David Austen's Rose Garden and many more surprises. It is a garden which uses the latest technologies and interweaves them with age old techniques. The story of its creation is a breathtaking history of courage and determination.
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The Sun King's Garden: Louis XIV, Andre Le Notre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles
Ian Thompson
(2006)
Hardcover - 384 pages
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747576483
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
War-monger, womanizer and autocrat, Louis XIV, Frances's self-styled 'Sun-King', was also history's most fanatical gardener. At Versailles, twelve miles outside Paris he created not only Europe's most lavish palace but the most extensive gardens the Western world has ever seen. The Domaine Nationale de Versailles now covers 2,100 acres (about two and a half times the size of New York's Central Park) but in it's heyday under Louis, the grand parc covered an astounding 16,343 acres. Assisting Louis in all this was a lowly-born gardener, Andre Le Notre, whose character and temperament were as different from those of his sovereign as it is possible to conceive. Where Louis was ruthless and relentlessly driven, celebrating his military and amorous conquests with ever more lavish plans for his gardens, Le Notre was down to earth, witty and amiable.- and phenomenally talented. While Louis could strike fear into the highest in the land with just a look, Le Notre enjoyed the king's trust and friendship for more than 40 years. In this lavishly illustrated book, Ian Thompson tells more comprehensively then ever before the intertwined stories of an extraordinary garden and an extraordinary friendship.
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The Peak District: Landscapes Through Time
John Barnatt
(2004)
Paperback - 158 pages
Windgather Press
ISBN: 0954557557
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The book explores the Peak's prehistoric sacred landscapes; we learn how the builders of the great henge at Arbor Low may have viewed the world. It also covers the dramatic impact on the land over the centuries of farmers, miners and quarrymen. As well as new interpretative maps (of, for instance, Chatsworth Park), this edition also includes an updated gazetteer of sites and a comprehensive bibliography. It is an indispensable guide to the area's archaeology.
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The Complete Guide to Building Decks
Bryan Trandem
(2001)
Paperback - 304 pages
Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 0865734275
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A source of tips, techniques and instructions on building decks. In this second edition, the construction techniques have been altered to reflect developments in building code requirements and building practices, and additional projects have been added. The book opens with a revised portfolio section to help readers gain ideas, then moves to design and planning information. Next there are comprehensive sections on basic and deck building techniques, followed by a chapter that shows step-by-step procedures for building seven popular deck designs. As a bonus, the book includes a chapter on popular deck accessories, and also shows how to modify a deck design for a truly custom look. In addition to the basic deck-building methods covered, readers will also learn how to build multi-level decks, how to build stairways with landings, how to build curved decks, how to build decks with unusual angles, how to create overhead screens, and how to add electrical service and lighting fixtures to a deck.
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RHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers
Christopher Brickell
(2006)
Hardcover - 744 pages
Dorling Kindersley
ISBN: 1405314540
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The classic must-have for any gardener planning, developing and nurturing their dream garden, from the experts at the RHS. This book is packed with advice on over 8,000 plants, with all you need to know on cultivation, pests, diseases and choosing the right plant for the right place. It now features a new section on choosing the best plants for year-round colour in your garden.
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The Allotment Book
Andi Clevely
(2006)
Hardcover - 224 pages
Collins
ISBN: 000720759X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A wonderfully illustrated celebration of the blood, sweat and joy to be had 'growing your own' in an allotment - with the in-depth, practical gardening know-how Collins is renowned for. No longer considered the preserve of old men in sheds, allotment gardening is currently enjoying a renaissance of interest. People of all ages and from all walks of life are digging their own plots in search of the ultimate in fresh, organic produce - and you cannot get more locally-sourced than your own allotment! This book testifies to the new vibrancy of allotment culture, aiming both to inspire the next generation of plot-holders and to provide all the practical knowledge needed to turn a patch of soil into a lifelong adventure. Open to all the new eco-gardening techniques, and the various weird and wonderful ways people make use of their plots, contents include: the history of allotments - from 19th century origins, through wartime 'Dig for Victory', to the cosmopolitan communities of today; features photos and interviews with current plot-holders; planning your perfect allotment - finding it, assessing it, clearing the ground and working out what to grow the brown stuff - all you need to know about soil management. It also features the key to growing success choosing a gardening method - organic, biodynamic, rotation beds, companion planting, greenhouse, multi-level, potager, cottage garden, and so on. The hard stuff - constructing sheds, compost bins, cold frames, fruit cages, ponds, seating and play areas selecting crops - what and how to grow, from parsnips and peas to chilli peppers and lemon grass cultivation techniques - digging, sowing, feeding, weeding and harvesting, plus troubleshooting pests and diseases the allotment calendar - extensive, month-by-month look at what's in season, jobs for now and looking ahead.
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Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
B. Hayes
(2005)
Hardcover - 500 pages
W W Norton & Co Ltd
ISBN: 0393059979
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they are there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing and waste, this is the perfect companion to the industrial landscape. The objects that fill our everyday environment, such as streetlights, railway tracks, antenna towers, motorway overpasses, satellite dishes and thousands of other manufactured items, are so familiar they have become so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, oil refineries and steel mills, to name a few. This book is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world created by man.
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Historic Gardens of Cornwall
Timothy Mowl
(2005)
Paperback - 208 pages
Tempus Publishing
ISBN: 0752434365
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This is the fourth volume in Timothy Mowl's ground-breaking county series on historic English gardens, now sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust. Cornwall is particularly strong on nineteenth- and twentieth-century gardens, in which the mild climate allows many exotic species to flourish. The 'Lost' Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project have made the county a particular favourite among garden-lovers. As in Dr Mowl's previous volumes there is nothing bland about either his selection of important gardens or his comments about them, which are as incisive as they are informed
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Gardens of the National Trust
Stephen Lacey
(2005)
Hardcover - 400 pages
National Trust Books
ISBN: 1905400004
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
When the National Trust decided to take on the care of gardens, the aim was that these would be the very best of their kind in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Trust now has the finest collection of gardens ever assembled under one ownership - the greatest in number, diversity, historic importance and quality. Taken together they contain the world's most important collection of cultivated plants, distinguished for their beauty, rarity, historical interest and scientific value. First published in 1996, this new edition has been substantially revised to showcase superb new photography, and to introduce recently acquired properties such as Greenway in Devon and the gardens of houses such as Red House in Kent and Tyntesfield in Somerset. Stephen Lacey paints a vivid picture of individual Trust gardens through historical and horticultural perspectives. He gives his personal take, describing the present state of each and placing it firmly within the context of gardening history in Britain. All the major periods are represented: a knot garden from a 1640 design at Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire; magnificent eighteenth-century landscapes such as 'Capability' Brown's at Petworth in Sussex; Victorian Gardens like Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, with its wealth of new plants introduced from all over the world; and the famous plantsmen's gardens of the last century, such as Nymans in Sussex, Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, and Hidcote in Gloucestershire.
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The Gardener's Year
Alan Titchmarsh
(2005)
Hardcover - 312 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 0563521678
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Best-selling author Alan Titchmarsh presents an essential month-by-month guide to the gardening year. The book will be released to coincide with a BBC2 6 x 30 television series to be broadcast in early 2006. This is a practical and accessible book that readers can dip into throughout the year to check exactly what needs doing and when. In-depth and packed full of useful tips, "The Gardener's Year" includes advice on everything from lawns and borders to containers and greenhouses. Alan's most recent gardening books: "How to be a Gardener 1 & 2" were the fastest selling gardening books ever with sales of over 1 million copies to date.
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Royal Gardens of Europe
George Plumptre
(2005)
Hardcover - 208 pages
Mitchell Beazley
ISBN: 1845330684
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Thematic book with a loosely chronological structure. An introductory chapter shows how royal gardeners have always influenced each other, often sharing designers and craftsmen. Chapters then look at how many royal gardens represented power and influence; royal gardens created chiefly for leisure; the influence of English landscape gardening on royalty in many European countries; royal gardeners who were particularly interested in botany and collecting new plants; 20th-century restorations of formerly important royal gardens; and contemporary royal gardens, often created for privacy rather than show. There is also a directory of gardens, indicating which ones can be visited by the public.
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Children and Their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces
Christopher Spencer (Editor), Mark Blades (Editor)
(2005)
Paperback - 250 pages
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521546826
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This fascinating book examines theories of children's perceptions of space and place and explores how these theories are applied to the world of children. The focus is on children in large real world spaces; places that children live in, explore and learn from. These include classrooms, playgrounds, homes and yards, towns, communities, countryside, natural environments, and the wider world. An international team of authors compare the experiences of children from different cultures and backgrounds. Often excluded from discussions of place-design on the presumption of lack of awareness, young children have many environmental competencies which should lead to their inclusion. They can read maps and study photographs, respond to the natural and man-made world with great sensitivity, and contribute considerably to the community. This book will appeal to environmental and developmental psychologists and geographers, and also to planners by linking research on children's understandings and on their daily lives to recommendations for practice.
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Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives
Finola O'Kane
(2005)
Hardcover - 288 pages
Cork University Press
ISBN: 185918362X
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Within the walls of the demesne, the Anglo-Irish ascendancy constructed their vision of an Irish Utopia. Ideal landscapes were designed and planted out with standard temperate trees and newly introduced exotics from the Americas. Ideal cottages were built, paternalistic estate management structures developed, and complex planning and design theories indulged. Masques and plays, morally suspect in the strict Protestant ethos of the time, flourished within the enclosed world of the demesne. Robert Molesworth's radical Whig landscape influenced both Jonathan Swift and the Earl of Shaftesbury's political and aesthetic ideas. The women of Carton and Castletown employed the theatrical tradition of French gardens to explore controversial lifestyles. This book seeks to explore how and why the landscapes were designed, who designed them, who used them, and for what purpose. Detailed studies of selected and connected gardens were used to explore these questions, and the smaller compass is hopefully countered by a more detailed context. Some of the gardens recreated retain much valuable evidence on the ground, while others have been pieced together from documentary sources, in particular the copious personal letters which survive. The existing gardens themselves are constantly in flux, as the source material grows and dies, or is more commonly axed by development. The disciplines of art history, architecture, engineering and planning are hauled informally together, to examine the role these disciplines have played, and should play, in creating and protecting the designed environment.
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A Picture of Britain
David Dimbleby
(2005)
Hardcover - 224 pages
Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1854375660
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David Dimbleby says: "I have always loved painting and scenery. The connection between the British landscape seen by all of us with the naked eye and the same landscape seen through the eyes of artists, musicians and writers is fascinating. In 'A Picture of Britain' I will be exploring these links and looking at their impact on our national character, seeking out the countryside we admire and the reasons we cherish it."
Accompanying a major new BBC One series presented by David Dimbleby and an important exhibition at Tate Britain, A Picture of Britain is a celebration of the British landscape and the art that it has inspired, from Constable to Lowry, from Turner to Nash. Written by David Dimbleby and leading experts on British art from Tate, it is beautifully illustrated with landscape photography and great works of art. From the slopes of Snowdonia to the industrial Black Country. from the grandeur of the Scottish Highlands to the meadows of Suffolk, the British landscape has inspired artists and writers for generations. But the authors show that it is only in the last two hundred years, stirred by art and poetry, that large numbers of people have sought out and visited wilder and more rugged vistas. In paintings, photographs and words, this remarkable book captures our rich cultural heritage, creating for the reader A Picture of Britain.
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Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
Peter Reed
(2005)
Paperback - 168 pages
Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN: 087070379X
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Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape presents twenty-three projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last twenty years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation and abandonment. The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, were selected for their outstanding design, and to demonstrate a variety of scales, contexts, materials and types of spaces. This fully illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Reed, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that demonstrates how these innovative projects expand the definition of the modernist landscape while responding to a variety of conditions such as social function and the transformation and reclamation of formerly industrial areas. The essay is followed by a full-colour plate section featuring the selected projects. Catalogue entries for each project provide a succinct description of the site, its transformation and design concepts illustrated by photographs, drawings and models.
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Great City Parks
Alan Tate
(2004)
Paperback - 224 pages
Spon Press
ISBN: 0415306361
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Great City Parks is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in a number of major cities in Western Europe and North America. As a collection they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The examination of each park looks at the size and condition of the sites at the time of designation, and looks at the reason for their designation and at the key figures behind the decisions to build them. The principal designers are profiled in terms of their backgrounds and the values that they brought to the projects. Each park is then examined in terms of its planning and design - looking at its location in the city, and the shape, size and existing landform of the site. The original design concept is reviewed in terms of spatial structure, circulation systems and intended character. The examinations then review the current status of the parks, looking at the organisations which manage them - how they are appointed; how they canvass their users' views; how the parks are funded - and at the patterns of use. The final sections of each park study looks at current plans for each of the parks. The study concludes by considering whether there are clear planning, design and management criteria for 'successful' city parks. Great City Parks is a celebration and rationale for some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. Based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with the managing organisations, the text is amplified by clear plans and professional photographs for each park. This book reflects a belief that well-planned, well-designed and well-managed parks remain invaluable components of liveable and hospitable cities. This fascinating book will appeal to Landscape Architects, Architects, Urban Planners, Park Managers, and anyone who appreciates the special role of parks in our urban environment.
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Dead Cities: And Other Tales
Mike Davis
(2004)
Paperback - 448 pages
The New Press
ISBN: 1565848446
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Now in paperback, a brilliant book in which radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the decline of the American city. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, federal policy - as well as the areas he calls "national sacrifice zones" where warfare and arms production have rendered the landscape uninhabitable. The apocalyptic tour of urban America includes as destinations New York, Utah, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Los Angeles and San Diego. As Mike Davis shows in this extraordinary book, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Writing by the light of burning cities - Berlin in 1945, L.A. in 1992, and New York in 2001 - he explores the future of urban life in the face of catastrophic terrorism, global warming, and runaway capitalism. His unifying theme - and challenge to conventional theory - is the radical contingency of the metropolis.
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Radical Landscapes: Reinventing Outdoor Space
Kathryn Gustafson (Foreword), Jane Amidon
(2003)
Paperback - 192 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 050028427X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Radical Landscapes presents over 60 projects by forward-looking landscape designers. Their use of innovative materials, unusual plants and unexpected forms offer alternative solutions to garden, backyard or outdoor space design. The book is organized into seven themes: light and colour, movement, order and objects, interaction, new contexts, urban interventions, and narrative. Each chapter is illustrated with works by designers and architects such as Fernando Garuncho, Kathryn Gustafson, Hiroki Hasegawa, Walter Hood and Adriaan Geuze.
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Landscape Graphics
Grant W. Reid
(2002 - New Edition)
Paperback - 216 pages
Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 0823073335
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A new revised edition of the classic industry reference, 'Landscape Graphics' is the ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents
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Ecology, Community and Delight
Ian Thompson
(1999)
Paperback - 216 pages
E & FN Spon
ISBN: 0419236104
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Landscape architecture is a profession with a chronic identity crisis. Is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people, or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe? This book examines the three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice - the aesthetic, the social and the environmental - and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future. The book integrates an investigation of historical sources with contemporary research into the beliefs and values of practitioners. It is structured in three main sections, dealing respectively with aesthetics (delight), ecology and sustainability, and social values. The aesthetics section is sub-divided into chapters examining natural aesthetics and chapters which look at the values implicit in designed landscapes. Each chapter which traces the development of a theme is followed by a corresponding chapter based upon interviews which demonstrates the ways such ideas are reflected in practice.
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The Garden at Highgrove
HRH The Prince of Wales, Candida Lycett Green
(2000)
Hardcover - 176 pages
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
ISBN: 0297825445
Review by Amazon.co.uk:
Most people will know two things about the garden at Highgrove - that it is organic and that, notoriously, the Prince of Wales talks to the plants he grows there. As The Garden at Highgrove lavishly demonstrates, it is a garden of very considerable interest and beauty, blending idiosyncratic touches into the traditional, romantic English country style. Although parts of the garden are laid out on a grand scale, much of it is intimate, forming a series of enclosed, room-like spaces. Evident everywhere is the Prince's respect for nature, from the underlying organic, self-sufficient methodology to the large-scale experiment in the restitution of a species-rich wild flower meadow. (The latter is expected to take at least a hundred years before the true balance of plant types is restored - an indication of the seriousness of purpose.) Although he has had advice and assistance from many leading garden and plant specialists, including Rosemary Verey, Sir Roy Strong and Miriam Rothschild, the Prince's personality, traditional-minded but with what seem to be strong streaks of competitiveness and bloody-mindedness, is everywhere apparent. Another presence, rarely alluded to, also haunts the place. Highgrove is an exemplary garden, and this is a very interesting book, beautifully illustrated and full of lessons in how hand and heart can work together in the garden. --Robin Davidson
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The English Urban Landscape
Philip Waller (Editor)
(2000)
Hardcover - 352 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198601174
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The emphasis in this work is that of the historian, rather than the physical geographer: that is, a primary focus on the people who make the landscapes, the changing social structure of the communities, and the different economies which sustained them. The 13 chapters combine chronological and thematic surveys. After a general introduction by Dr Waller, chapters 2-5 provide overviews of how the urban landscape in England developed during the Roman period, the Early Medieval period, the Medieval period, and the Early Modern Period. The second, larger part of the text offers a variety of thematic approaches to the history of the built environment, with a focus on the 1800s and 1900s: metropolitanism, the commercial city, the industrial city, transport, slums and suburbs, recreation, civil and ecclesiastical, and artistic and literary.
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Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape
Jon Coaffee
(2003)
Hardcover - 278 pages
Ashgate Publishing Limited
ISBN: 0754635554
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The continued fortification of urban areas has attracted significant attention and has become particularly relevant in counter-terrorist strategies since 9/11. This book is articulated in the light of these discussions, which focus on notions of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary cities. In particular it examines how terrorist targeting of the City of London since the early 1990s has led to changes in both physical and institutional infrastructure. The book analyses how the various formal and informal strategies adopted in the City attempted to reduce both the physical and financial risk of terrorism. This was undertaken through a series of place-specific security initiatives and risk management policies which led to increased fortification, a substantial rise in terrorism insurance premiums and changing institutional relations at a variety of spatial scales to protect London's position as a global city. It is also argued that the security measures deployed were advanced not in terms of an anti-terrorist effort, but in relation to the unintended by-products of these approaches such as crime reduction and enhanced traffic management capabilities.
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Public and Private Spaces of the City
Ali Madanipour
(2003)
Paperback - 272 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415256291
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The subdivision of our social world and the spaces we inhabit into public and private spheres is one of the key features of how a society organises itself. This affects individuals' mental states and experiences, regulates their behaviour, and superimposes a long lasting structure onto human societies. This book sets out to find out how and why social space is subdivided in this way and to explore the nature of each realm as defined by spatial and symbolic boundaries. To understand this dichotomous organization of space and society, the investigation is conducted along three scales: spatial scale (body, home, neighbourhood, city), degrees of exclusivity and openness (from the most private to the most public) and modes of social encounter and association with space (personal, interpersonal, impersonal). Starting from the private, interior space of the mind, it moves outwards to the extensions of the body in space, the personal space. The book then visits the home, the domains of privacy, intimacy and property, followed by interpersonal spaces of sociability among strangers, communal spaces of the neighbourhood, the material and institutional public sphere and the impersonal spaces of the city. As the shape of the city and the characteristics of urban life are influenced by the way public and private distinction is made, the role of urban designers becomes ever more significant. By establishing a flexible and elaborate boundary between the two realms, urbanism can be enriched, where the danger of encroachment by private interests into the public realm and the threat of public intrusion into the private sphere are both minimised and carefully managed.
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Modern Garden Design: Innovation Since 1900
Janet Waymark
(2003)
Hardcover - 256 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500511128
Review by Amazon.co.uk:
Gardens in the 20th century reach back into the Victorian era and forward into the age of Land Art. This survey, from Europe to South America, and Japan to the US, takes in many familiar designers including Robinson, Jekyll, Jensen, Farrand, Sessions, Mawson, Church, Sorenson and Jellicoe. The book traces the revolutionary post-war period - the Harvard rebels, Eckbo, Rose and Kily; Noguchi, Burle Marx and Barragan - and the powerful influence of the Scandinavian landscape designers. The garden city is given close attention, from late Victorian Britain, through the Greenbelt Towns in the American Midwest, to the latest regeneration of urban centres worldwide. Notable artists and architects also feature here: Monet, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Gaudi among others. Land artists have brought landscape and the garden into the 21st century and include Robert Smithson and Kathryn Gustafson in the US, and Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy and Ian Hamilton Finlay in the UK.
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Little Sparta: The Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay
Jessie Sheeler, Andrew Lawson (Photographer)
(2003)
Hardcover - 160 pages
Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 0711220859
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Sir Roy Strong calls Little Sparta "the only really original garden made in this country since 1945". Ian Hamilton Finlay's unique creation in the Pentland Hills south of Edinburgh is a garden composed as an artwork in itself. It incorporates concrete poetry, moral polemic, philosophical reflection and a sparkling sense of humour. While Finlay's works and installations throughout Europe and North America are well documented and justly famous, this is the first book devoted solely to the garden at Little Sparta, which has been at the heart of his life's work. It offers readers a sense of the diversity and originality of the garden along with a text that unfolds the layers of meaning it contains.
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Landscape and Memory
Simon Schama
(1996 - New Edition)
Paperback - 702 pages
Fontana Press
ISBN: 0006863485
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
How does environment influence history? How are events and personalities, wars and nationalities shaped by their surroundings, by the very rise and fall of earth, water and forest? This work attempts to answer these questions and gives a portrait of the world around us and how it shapes us.
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In Ruins
Christopher Woodward
(2001)
Hardcover - 224 pages
Chatto and Windus
ISBN: 070116896X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Do we see them as jig-saws and riddles or romantic evocations of the damage of time, complete with crumbling stone and ivy? This book looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. It takes the reader from Troy and Pompeii to Nazi fantasies, the shattered Statue of Liberty in the film "Planet of the Apes" and the Chelsea Flower Show's "Millennium Ruin".
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Here Comes the Sun
Ken Worpole
(2000)
Paperback - 168 pages
Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861890737
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This work looks at how social reformers, planners and architects in the early 20th century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia. Worpole concentrates less on buildings and more on the planning of the spaces in between - the parks, squares, promenades and pools.
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Guide to Professional Practice for Landscape Architects
Rachel Tennant, Nicola Garmony, Clare Winsch
(2001)
Paperback - 188 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 075064818X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This guide is about the practical issues of being successful in the landscape design business. It is intended for students preparing for the professional practice examinations and as a reminder for professionals. It covers the relevant but diverse legal, business and practical contract management themes, and key schedules and acts. It is relevant in the UK and in all countries in the Commonwealth that practice under UK rules.
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