How to Read Gardens

A Crash Course in Garden Appreciation

By:

Lorraine Harrison

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

How to Read

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How to Read Gardens is the essential guide for garden lovers and visitors alike. Visiting gardens has never been more popular but not many of us understand what we are looking at when strolling through a beautiful garden - are we looking at an original landscaped site or a recreation? Is the planting matter authentic or made up of modern hybrids? Are the steps and terracing in the Italianate style or are they Arts and Crafts? The truth is that most gardens of any age are like a palimpsest: successive generations have changed and influenced the soft and hard fabric of the place over time. Inevitably many of the gardens we wander through today are an amalgam of changing fashions and circumstance. How to Read Gardens gives you all the knowledge you need to tease out the clues that will tell you the complete story of a garden's past. From the grandest estate to the smallest suburban plot, this book will enliven and inform every visit.

Author Biography:

Lorraine Harrison has a master’s degree in Garden History from the University of London and has written several books on the subject. She is a successful gardener and gardening writer with a passion for exotic and heirloom vegetables and regularly contributes to Gardens Illustrated and Hortus. When not tending her own plot, she enjoys other people's gardens whether large or small, grand or humble.

Release date Australia

December 26th, 2019

Author

Lorraine Harrison

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

500+ images in full colour throughout

Pages

256

Series

How to Read

ISBN-13

9781789940282

Product ID

31640521

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