The Essentials of Garden Design
Written by John Brookes
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $35.00
John Brookes is one of the most original and creative garden designers in the world. He is known for the more than 1,200 gardens he has designed worldwide and for being an inspiring teacher. His work teaching generations of garden designers has influenced the way we look at, and think about...
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Outdoors
The Garden Design Book for the Twenty-First Century
Written by Diarmuid Gavin and Terence Conran
Format: Hardcover, 271 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $60.00
The ultimate garden design book: a visual delight covering all aspects of working and living in your garden with stunning photographs of gardens from around the world.
The contemporary garden carries a profound connection both to the environment and to the range of activities—relaxing, entertaining, working—that characterize today's lifestyle. A collaboration between...
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Making the Modern Garden
Written by Christopher Bradley-Hole
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2007
Price: $45.00
A superlative analysis of contemporary gardens as well as a fascinating collection of landscapes around the world,
Making the Modern Garden is a definitive study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the...
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Royal Gardens of Europe
Written by George Plumptre
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2005
Price: $50.00
Versailles, Nymphenburg, Hampton Court, Schonbrunn, Het Loo -- some of the most famous gardens in history were created by European royalty during the last three hundred years. This rich showcase of Europe's most prestigious estates presents the history, design, and culture of the landscapes created for aristocracy from the seventeenth through...
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The American Gardener
Written by William Cobbett
Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2003
Price: $14.00
Back in print after 150 yearsOut of print since 1856,
The American Gardener is perhaps the first classic work of American gardening literature. In it, William Cobbett, Victorian England’s greatest and most gifted journalist, draws upon his experiences during a two-year exile on a Long Island, New York, farm to lay...
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P. Allen Smith's Garden Home
Creating a Garden for Everyday Living
Written by P. Allen Smith
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $29.95
Lots of people want gardens but find the prospect of getting started a bit daunting.
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home is P. Allen Smith's inviting solution.
Smith begins with his own story: his family's love of gardens and experience in the nursery business, his own education at the great gardens of England...
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Architecture in the Garden
Written by James Van Sweden and Tom Christopher
Preface by Penelope Hobhouse
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2003
Price: $45.00
The elements of garden architecture—paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art—together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated and accessible book, legendary landscape architect James van Sweden explains how to design and build a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on...
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Dumbarton Oaks
Written by Susan Tamulevich, Ping Amranand and Philip Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2002
Price: $65.00
The Dumbarton Oaks Research and Study Center in Washington, D.C., administered by Harvard University, is a famed museum and study center specializing in pre-Columbian art, Byzantine studies, and garden history and design. Long known for its museum pavilion, designed by the noted architect Philip Johnson, Dumbarton Oaks sits within one of...
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Mirrors of Paradise
The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho
Written by Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor and Dan Kiley
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2000
Price: $65.00
Now back in stock, this highly sought after monograph represents the gardens and landscapes of the Spanish designer Fernando Caruncho. Renowned internationally for serene compositions based on timeless principles of natural forms and geometry, Caruncho has recently completed two landscapes in the United States, one in the rolling farmland of New...
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Allergy-Free Gardening
The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping
Written by Thomas L. Ogren
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2000
Price: $29.95
With allergy problems reaching alarming, epidemic levels, horticulturist Tom Ogren sets out to investigate the role that urban landscaping plays in this urgent health crisis. What he discovered was startling: The vastly disproportionate cultivation of all-male plant varieties produces large amounts of intensely irritating airborne pollen. This extensively researched, comprehensive, plant-by-plant...
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A Place of Beauty
The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony
Written by Alma M. Gilbert and Judith B. Tankard
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2000
Price: $29.95
At the turn of the century, the artists' colony in Cornish, New Hampshire, was considered the most beautifully landscaped village in America. Its rolling hills and lush, fairy-tale scenery drew some of the nation's most gifted artists, including sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, illustrator Maxfield Parrish, and architect Charles Platt. A PLACE OF...
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