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The definitive reference guide to garden design, its rich history, and the creative art of gardening - a luxuriously illustrated A-Z compendium of more than 200 garden elements, styles, features, and ornaments for gardeners around the globe

A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment

An insider's guide to the world's greatest 'secret' gardens, green spaces, and pocket parks tucked away in cities around the globe Cities everywhere are graced with charming but little-known, off-the-beaten-track gardens and green spaces, offering urbanites in the know a chance to immerse themselves in nature. These often small, well-kept secrets are not as grand as those on the tourist trail but are equally delightful and rewarding to visit, if you know where to find them. Green Escapes is the revelatory insider's guide to these secret gems. Each of them open to the public, the gardens range from pocket parks, courtyards, and rooftop terraces, to community gardens and more.

With more than 1,000 images and descriptive texts, this is the ultimate celebration of the world’s most gorgeous gardens  – now available with a stunning fuchsia pink cover This internationally bestselling inspirational resource for garden-lovers and designers is now reissued with a gorgeous new cover – bringing the book’s winning blend of…

Plants and gardens have always been a cornerstone of all major world religions and belief systems. The Fields of Reeds in Ancient Egypt, Eden in Christianity, the Isles of the Immortals in China and the Pure Land in Buddhist Japan are just some of the divine gardens promised to the faithful or earthly paradises imbued with symbolism and ritual. And in all religions plants have their own religious meanings and associations, ceremonial or ritualistic purpose and use. Taking a global perspective and with a chronology of over 5000 years, Paradise Gardens examines, explores and interprets seventeen belief systems grouped into five themed sections. Each chapter will feature an especially significant earthly paradise and through this one garden will explore the wider religio-symbolic use of gardens and plants within the belief system. Dr Musgrave is able to explore and explain these gardens both within their religious framework but also within the wider contexts of garden history and the prevailing zeitgeist.

Das Paradies auf ErdenSpiritualität und Achtsamkeit stehen heute hoch im Kurs; Menschen begeben sich an besondere Orten auf der Suche nach Stille und Lebenssinn. Häufig haben diese eine besondere Beziehung zur Natur. Die Frage nach dem Woher und Warum dieses Bezugs zur Natur ist der Ausgangspunkt des Buches, das der Bedeutung und Symbolik des Gartens und einzelner Pflanzen in den verschiedenen Kulturen und Religionen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart nachgeht. Ihre Lehren sind zwar sehr unterschiedlich, aber alle vereint ein Glaubenssatz, der die Verehrung der Natur, die Verwendung von Pflanzen als mit Symbolik erfüllte, beseelte Sinnbilder und in den meisten Fällen Paradiesgärten vorsieht. Anhand vielfältiger Quellen und Abbildungen führt Toby Musgrave den Leser in eine faszinierende Welt der Bedeutungen und Symbole. Neun Exkurse präsentieren vorbildhafte Umsetzungen, die Besuchern heute die Quintessenz des jeweiligen Gartenstils eindrucksvoll vor Augen führen, darunter die Villa d‘Este in Tivoli, der Garten des Verweilens in Suzhou und der Waldfriedhof in Stockholm.

"This is the story of two of England's most prolific plant hunters who travelled and collected during the heyday of the Victorian mania for acquiring exotic new trees and plants from around the world. The Cornish-born brothers were employed by the great horticultural nursery of James Veitch & Sons, which sent out twenty plant hunters, famous for some of today's most popular garden trees and plants. William Lobb (1809-1864) collected in South America and western North America and Thomas Lobb (1817-1894) travelled through south-east Asia and India. Together they put in a total of almost 30 years travelling and collecting, often in barely explored regions. The seeds and plants they sent home were some of the most interesting and lovely to grow in English gardens and glasshouses. Their travels and adventures are full of drama, trial and tribulation. The Blue Orchid (vanda coerulea) was collected in the Khasia hills of India from under the nose of Kew collector, Joseph Hooker, who regarded Thomas Lobb as a mere 'garden boy' until he beat him home with this beautiful and valuable addition to the orchid world. William Lobb discovered the 'Big Tree' or Wellingtonia (sequoiadendrn giganteum) on the Pacific coast of California and rushed home with sacks of seeds which made the Veitch nursery huge profits. This book will be published in June 2014 - 150 years after the death of William and 120 after that of Thomas. It is an attempt to celebrate their lives and achievements and put the name of Lobb firmly in its place in the long history of plant introductions to British gardens."-- Publisher's website

A riveting new biography - the first for thirty years - of the influential floral artist and founder of the Cordon Bleu cookery school

This is a very accessible history of the vices and virtues of British gardeners through the ages, particularly those who shaped the National Trust gardens.