Search Results: Garden History from Carrageen Books

PHAIDON PRESS, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition, gardener Helen Dillons copy of this fine book by Elizabeth Banks. 1st edition,with good condition Dustjacket, sunning on front. A guide to creating a period garden, this book covers 15 classic styles of English garden design. It features a wealth of information on the planning of beds and the selection of ornaments and plants.

Little, Brown & Co, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine condition, dust jacket in vg condition.

G. Philip, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very clean copy. Edited by Penelope Hobhouse & Patrick Taylor.

De Luca Editori D'arte, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine condition of this wonderful book by Alberta Campitelli, Green Delights - The Villas, Gardens and Historic Parks Belonging to the City of Rome Verdi delizie. Le ville, i giardini, i parchi storici del Comune di Ra. Ediz. inglese. Out of print, rare book from the popular Italian author.

Merrell Publishers, 2019. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. New and in cover. Perfect condition. Kiftsgate Court, perched on the northern edge of the Cotswolds Hills in Gloucestershire, is a garden composed of many different scenes. Some elements - the bluebell wood, the clipped hedging and the rose border, with its famously huge Kiftsgate rose - are traditionally English, but there are also areas of Italianate planting and terracing, and others where a mixture of perennials, roses and rare and exotic shrubs thrive side by side. Equally remarkable is the fine balance between continuity and gentle evolution that the visitor finds at Kiftsgate. This is largely because the garden has belonged to the same family since its creation 100 years ago. Three women have tended Kiftsgate, each one its driving force for a third of a century, and each building on the legacy of the previous generation. In 1919 Heather Muir and her husband, Jack, bought the house, which stands on a relatively narrow plateau from which a… Read More

Bene Factum Publishing, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition, clean & unmarked. Gardener Helen Dillon's copy"The contribution of diplomatic, military, and naval exploits in the formation of the British Empire are well recorded, but far less well-known are those of botanic gardens which, in their own unsung way, helped to underpin the Empires commercial success and were also instrumental in furthering botanical knowledge around the world. Christian Lamb, distinguished plantswoman and garden historian, writes in her introduction: "It so happens that I collect botanic gardensthis book is a nebulous collection of a few chosen botanic gardens from the vast array available the stars in their spheresand the remarkable array of the often learned and entrepreneurial characters that created them.

Harry N. Abrams, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition, some light shelf wear, inscribed as a gift to Gardener Helen Dillon. The Winterthur Garden is the story of Henry Francis du Pont's lifelong love affair with his home, as well as a biography of one of America's great public gardens. Author Denise Magnani, curator of landscape at Winterthur, offers an engagingly intimate portrait of the man and his environment, documenting the evolution of a single garden and detailing its relationship to the interior of the house, from which it can be viewed. The masterpiece that du Pont created in Wilmington, Delaware, is now open for the public to enjoy, but for years it functioned as a private horticultural laboratory where du Pont - primarily known as a visionary collector of works of the American decorative arts - experimented as much with the landscape as with individual plant species gathered from the far corners of the globe. While, today, the garden may appear to be an… Read More

B. T. Batsford, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In very good condition with VG DJ. With the help of extensive lists of plants culled from contemporary magazines and nurserymen's catalogues, and making use of the published work of the great collectors and hybridists, Richard Gorer has written here the first detailed analysis of the horticultural development of the flower garden in England. In a style as elegant as it is precise, and with the help of generous illustrations, he starts by discussing the influx of exotics in Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens. Then, after considering the planting styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he goes on to write of what he calls the 'floral explosion'. This is the prelude to three chapters on the nineteenth century and three on the twentieth the great periods of the English flower garden. Using his scholarship in an easy and graceful manner, Richard Gorer has produced a work which will be of consuming interest to all serious… Read More