The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome by Gordon Campbell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission ...Show more
Visible/Invisible The Landscape Works of Reed Hilderbrand by Peter Walker
$110.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
"Visible | Invisible" presents 40 of the completed landscape designs by the widely recognized firm Reed Hilderbrand. Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand are known for their rigorously conceived and carefully executed projects that merge the particular native qualities of a site with recognizably contempor ...Show more
Gertrude Jekyll: Her Art Restored at Upton Grey by Rosamund Wallinger
$80.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
Gertrude Jekyll was perhaps the most important British garden designer of the 20th century. She famously argued that gardening ought to be considered a Fine Art, highlighting that it becomes a point of honour to be always striving for the best. This volume examines Jekyll's work at Manor House, Upton Gr ...Show more
Private Edens by Jack Staub
$69.99 AUD
Category: Gardens
Private country paradises boasting remarkable plant palettes and combinations. Garden design expert Jack Staub presents more than twenty beautiful and sumptuous private country gardens in Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts. From a romantic garden with c ...Show more
The Gardens of England: Treasures of the National Gardens Scheme by George Plumptre
$55.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
In England, gardening and garden-visiting are national obsessions. More than 80 years ago, the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) was founded with the aim of raising money for charity by opening gardens of quality and interest to the public. In the first year, some 600 gardens were opened. Today, over 3700 g ...Show more
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World by HRH the Prince of Wales
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
HRH The Prince of Wales reveals how the solutions to our most pressing modern challenges, from climate change to poverty, can only be found in regaining a balance with nature.For decades, The Prince of Wales has studied a wide array of disciplines in his quest to understand how modern industrialization ...Show more
The Flower Recipe Book: 125 Magical, Sculptural, Seasonal Arrangements by Alethea Harampolis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
There is simply no other book out there that demonstrates - both visually and with detailed recipes - how to create the type of floral arrangement that is ubiquitous in design publications these days. And no other book offers so many styles of arrangements: novices can learn how to work with a single va ...Show more
From Marie Antoinette's Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album by Elisabeth de Feydeau
$59.95 AUD
Category: Gardens
Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinettes passion; she transformed the Petit Trianons gardens into an enchanted escape from the oppressive shackles of Versailles. Based on archival documents, this book includes descriptions of the cosmetic and medicinal uses of the gardens plants, anecdotes from ...Show more
The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey by Monty Don
$40.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
This is not a book about French Gardens. It is the story of a man travelling round France visiting a few selected French gardens on the way. Owners, intrigues, affairs, marriages, feuds, thwarted ambitions and desires, the largely unnamed ordinary gardeners, wars, plots and natural disasters run through ...Show more
Garden of a Lifetime - Commemorative Edition by Anne Latreille
$49.99 AUD
Category: Gardens
Almost 80 years ago, Keith Murdoch gave his young bride a wedding present that would be of very special significance throughout the intervening years, a small grazing property on the outskirts of Melbourne. They called it Cruden Farm, and it was here that their family grew up and the garden evolved. A b ...Show more
Vita Sackville West's Sissinghurst: The creation of a Garden by Vita Sackville-West & Sarah Raven
$55.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions ...Show more
Nelson Byrd Woltz: Garden, Park, Community, Farm by Warren T. Byrd, Jr.
$95.00 AUD
Category: Gardens
Nelson Byrd Woltz's designs transcend mere decoration, they are both technologically innovative and environmentally sound and most importantly; they inspire people to gather together, connecting with nature and each other. Nelson Byrd Woltz: Landscapes is divided into four sections: Garden, Campus, Park ...Show more