A celebration of walled gardens worldwide, from the Far-East to North America, and from Britain and Europe to North Africa. Includes the work of such celebrated designers as Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Terence Conran, Beatrix Farrand and Christopher Bradley-Hole. An invaluable resource for garden designers, horticultural students and all garden lovers.

More Hidden Gardens tells the story of the restoration of six very differeny gardens around the UK to their original state. Through archeology and historical documents, the restorers aim to rediscover the lost beauty and hidden stories of these enchanting gardens.

Features more than 90 exquisite gardens around the United States. Organized according to parts of the garden - entryways, herbaceous borders, water features, and hedges, this book contains pictures that are accompanied by insightful commentaries and captions.

Intended for lovers of gardens and nature as well as those who travel to France.

An illustrated A-to-Z survey of the most important and beautiful gardens of the world. It presents 500 garden designers and patrons, each represented by a full-page reproduction of a significant garden and a description that places it and its creator in its historical context.

An introduction to the gardens of Wales, capturing the essence of the national garden style and giving an outline of its history, followed by explorations of 26 representative gardens.

Gardening is a hugely popular hobby all over the world and the second International Garden Photography of the Year competition brilliantly captures international gardens, both large and small in their glory. Filled with images, this book showcases the best entries from the garden photographer of the competition.

In this volume, 365 colour photographs present gardens from all across the world, including Britain, mainland Europe, the Far East, and the Americas.

100 Inspirational Gardens. Now in paperback, this volume presents an array of wonderful locations and garden-design ideas, from small, sophisticated, minimalist city gardens to large, richly planted gardens in breathtaking rural locations. Each garden is photographed to show all its key features and essential details, while concise descriptions explore the aims and achievements of some of today's

The first book dedicated to Little Sparta -- the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay -- endeavours to uncover the meaning behind this artistic and innovative garden design.

The great formal gardens of Tudor and Stuart England are a lost art form. This book sets out to evoke both the people and the ideas that led to the creation of the English Renaissance garden. Figures included are: Robert Cecil; Francis Bacon; Inigo Jones; Lucy Harrington; and Andrew Marvell.

Timothy Mowl describes the creation of designed landscapes and gardens in Gloucestershire from medieval times to the present day, taking in: the formal gardens of the late seventeenth century; Georgian Arcadia; the Gardenesque of the Regency; Victorian Arboreta; the Arts and Crafts garden and the twentieth-century garden.

Using contemporary quotations, engravings and line illustrations, this book depicts how we have enjoyed ourselves in gardens through the centuries.

Created by Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, Sissinghurst represents romantic gardening at its most successful. This book reveals the secrets behind the most-visited garden in Britain. It relates the garden's features, and examines its design, development, planting and maintenance.

Presents a survey of 100 iconic, significant and beautiful gardens in England, from the sixteenth century onwards. This book includes a range of gardens by designers, makers, patrons, artists, architects and literary figures. It is suitable for both the general reader and practicing gardeners.

This is a story of two journeys, separated by almost a century, yet both focusing on Italian gardens. In 1903, Edith Wharton was commissioned by Century Magazine to write a series of articles on Italian villas and gardens. Nearly 100 years later, Vivian Russell follows in her footsteps.

Tales of gardeners, plant hunters and plants discovered near home or in faraway places, sometimes after great hardships: stories of eccentric, opinionated Irish gardeners and the plants they cherished, propagated and passed on. Each essay is an Irishman's cutting in another way, having been first published in The Irish Garden magazine.

Why do owners want to open their gardens, and why do people want to visit them? This book answers these questions. It offers a worldwide survey of garden philosophies, and the modern phenomenon of garden tourism. It is suitable for garden visitors, garden owners, and garden designers.