Photographic Garden History
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0679448977 / Publisher: Random House, October 1996
A Photographic Garden History is a uniquely personal journey of discovery into the history of garden...
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A Photographic Garden History is a uniquely personal journey of discovery into the history of gardens and the great movements that have influenced that history.Featuring over 900 beautiful color shots specially taken for the book, Roger Phillips traces the history from the earliest times to the present day, using extant gardens to show the representative features of particular garden styles, periods or movements. The authors concentrate on three main areas: the Western European tradition of gardening and its influence on the established gardens of North America; the Eastern tradition of garden-making in China and Japan; and the gardening developments of the 20th century which have stressed the importance of native plant conservation and wild flower gardening.Within each tradition, the gardens are arranged chronologically. Each garden is described in detail, giving its historical background, outlining its main features and explaining its significance within its period or in garden history as a whole. Beginning with the Roman peristyle gardens such as those found at Pompeii, the reader moves over the centuries to the Italian Renaissance gardens such as Villa Lante, the French Formal movement as typified by Versailles, the Baroque German Gardens, the English Landscape movement through to the Native Plant movement as seen at the Living Desert garden in California.
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