Lives of the Great Gardeners by Anderton, Stephen

Lives of the Great Gardeners

Throughout history, great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners,...
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Author: Stephen Anderton
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Lives of the Great Gardeners by Anderton, Stephen

Lives of the Great Gardeners

$132.13

Lives of the Great Gardeners

$132.13
Author: Stephen Anderton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Throughout history, great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sculpture or painting; some have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and develop it to meet the needs and aesthetics of their times.

The book is organized into four thematic sections. Gardens of Ideas moves from the politically allusive gardens of eighteenth-century England to Charles Jencks's Scottish garden inspired by twenty-first-century cosmography. Gardens of Straight Lines explores the lives of the great formalist gardeners, from Le Nôtre at Versailles to the rational English minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher Bradley-Hole. Gardens of Curves opens with that great exponent of the English landscape garden, "Capability" Brown, and moves on to the extraordinary Brazilian designer Roberto Burle Marx. Finally, Gardens of Plantsmanship arcs from the father of naturalistic planting, William Robinson, to the sweeping prairie-style of Piet Oudolf.

With images of gardens as they were originally seen, together with portraits of their makers and an outstanding text by the award-winning gardens writer for The Times, this book will appeal to garden lovers everywhere.



Author: Stephen Anderton
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 11/08/2016
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.20lbs
Size: 9.90h x 8.50w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780500518564


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2016
Booklist 02/01/2017 pg. 7
Choice 05/01/2017

About the Author
Anderton, Stephen: - Stephen Anderton is a journalist, author, lecturer, and broadcaster. He is The Times's longstanding writer on gardens and gardening.

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