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Book Synopsis Gardens in Perpetual Bloom by : Nancy Boghossian Keeler
Download or read book Gardens in Perpetual Bloom written by Nancy Boghossian Keeler and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes that catalogued the elaborate and extensive gardens of the well-to-do. But when Carl Linnaeus first classified the plant kingdom in 1735, the botanical book quickly took on a more scientific cast. By the nineteenth century, the flourishing of botanical publications reflected both the rapid rise of gardening as an amateur hobby and the desire of artists and decorators for new visual resources. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom: Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850 traces the appreciation of flowers and their depiction, from the studious world of monks and princes to the era of the gardening enthusiast. The book's 110 prints and drawings--which include masterful engravings by Georg Dionysus Ehret, the eighteenth century's most accomplished botanical artist, and hand-colored prints by Pierre-Joseph Redout , the premier draftsman of flowers for Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte--are remarkable for their technical virtuosity, delicate tonalities, scientific accuracy and seemingly infinite variety. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom is both a valuable historical survey and an affordable, attractively designed volume of jewel-like beauty.
Book Synopsis My Garden (Book) by : Jamaica Kincaid
Download or read book My Garden (Book) written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ideal Garden by : Harry Higgott Thomas
Download or read book The Ideal Garden written by Harry Higgott Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Onward and Upward in the Garden by : Katharine S. White
Download or read book Onward and Upward in the Garden written by Katharine S. White and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.
Book Synopsis A Woman's Hardy Garden by : Helena Rutherfurd Ely
Download or read book A Woman's Hardy Garden written by Helena Rutherfurd Ely and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to set a perfect garden, the author of this book came through numerous experiments and mistakes, which resulted in detailed advice on everything from soil preparation to garden design. The book gives answers to questions like when to plant or transplant, when to sow this or that seed, and how to prepare the beds and borders, and many more.
Download or read book My Garden Book written by John Weathers and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English flower garden by : William Robinson
Download or read book The English flower garden written by William Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gardening World Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Garden Ethic by : Benjamin Vogt
Download or read book A New Garden Ethic written by Benjamin Vogt and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.
Download or read book Our Life in Gardens written by Joe Eck and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately." With these words, the renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd begin their entertaining, fascinating, and unexpectedly moving book about the life and garden they share. The book contains much sound information about the cultivation of plants and their value in the landscape, and invaluable advice about Eck and Winterrowd's area of expertise: garden design. There are chapters about the various parts of their garden, and sections about particular plants—roses and lilacs, snowdrops and cyclamen—and vegetables. The authors also discuss the development of their garden over time, and the dark issue that weighs more and more on their minds: its eventual decline and demise. Our Life in Gardens is a deeply satisfying perspective on gardening, and on life.
Download or read book Garden Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by :
Download or read book The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gardeners' Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers. Describing the Most Desirable Plants for Borders, Rockcries, and Shrubberies, and Including Both Foliage and Flowering Plants by : Eng Of Woodville John Wood
Download or read book Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers. Describing the Most Desirable Plants for Borders, Rockcries, and Shrubberies, and Including Both Foliage and Flowering Plants written by Eng Of Woodville John Wood and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds by : William Robinson
Download or read book The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds written by William Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Right Rose, Right Place by : Peter Schneider
Download or read book Right Rose, Right Place written by Peter Schneider and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Schneider challenges the notorious myth that roses are difficult to grow, arguing that it’s all about choosing the right petals for the right place! Providing in-depth profiles of hundreds of varieties, Schneider helps you decide which roses will work best in your flower bed or along an eye-catching garden trellis. Simple instructions that use proven techniques make growing roses easy and enjoyable, even in colder climates, while more than 400 gorgeous photos make this book as visually irresistible as it is useful.
