"Penelope Hobhouse's Gardening Through the Ages" 1992 Hobhouse, Penelope

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HOBHOUSE, Penelope

[336] pp.

Simon & Schuster

1992

10 1/4" x 10 1/2"

How did a newly introduced plant arrive … Read more HOBHOUSE, Penelope

[336] pp.

Simon & Schuster

1992

10 1/4" x 10 1/2"

How did a newly introduced plant arrive in a border or in a popular planting scheme? How often have new plants actually influenced and molded the designs in which they were featured? What plants were used to create certain desired effects? The multiplicity of ways in which plants have contributed to garden design is the theme of this far-reaching and absorbing study.

The Origins of Gardening in the West -- The Gardens of Islam -- The Medieval Gardens of Christendom -- Botanists, Plantsmen, and Gardeners of Renaissance Europe -- Gardens of the Italian Renaissance -- The Origin and Development of French Formality -- The Eighteenth-Century English Landscape -- Expansion and Experiment in the Nineteenth Century -- The Development of North American Horticulture -- The Twentieth Century: Gardening as Conservation. See less