The garden : an English love affair : one thousand years of gardening
The unique style of the English garden is admired and copied all over the world. This book shows how the gardens of each period reflect the political, social and cultural life, how they affected architecture, clothes and manners, and how ideas and plants from other continents were embraced to form the art of English garden making.
Print Book, English, [2003, c2002]
Seven Dials Paperbacks, London, [2003, c2002]
History
360 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
9781841882277, 1841882275
1242321771
Introduction; Keeping Nature at Bay; Taming Nature; Manipulating Nature; Co-operating with Nature; Domesticating Nature; Romanticising Nature; Celebrating Nature; Controlling Nature; Understanding Nature; Adapting Nature