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Book Synopsis The Garden Plants of China by : Peter Valder
Download or read book The Garden Plants of China written by Peter Valder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornamentals that were introduced first in Chinese gardens. The Chinese plants with the greatest impact on the gardens of the world have actually come from Chinese gardens and nurseries.
Book Synopsis The Chinese garden flora by : Hongwen Huang
Download or read book The Chinese garden flora written by Hongwen Huang and published by EDP Sciences. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living plant collection and ex situ conservation are not only the core mission of modern botanical gardens, but also the basis of the scientific mission of botanical gardens and the responsibility to safeguard plant diversity by botanical community. The Ex situ Flora of China is a multi-decade project which has made significant achievements and aroused public interest. Based on the latest progress of the project, this book provides up-to-date summary and resources of ex situ plant conservation worldwide and mainly in China. The book includes four major parts: (1) Overview of Botanical Garden Based Research, (2) World Garden Flora, (3) Ex situ Flora of China, (4) Introduction to 312 Families of Angiospermae, Gymnospermae and Pteridophyta. This book will greatly benefit global ex situ conservation and provide valuable information to serve agriculture, forestry, horticulture and medicinal plant industries.
Book Synopsis Gifts from the Gardens of China by : Jane Kilpatrick
Download or read book Gifts from the Gardens of China written by Jane Kilpatrick and published by Frances Lincoln Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the skilled gardeners of Imperial China through new research that opens a new chapter in the story of our garden plants.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Garden by : Bianca Maria Rinaldi
Download or read book The Chinese Garden written by Bianca Maria Rinaldi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well Japanese and Chinese gardens constitute an unparalleled repository of design solutions familiar throughout the world. They are frequently drawn upon as reference works, but often in a piecemeal and haphazard fashion and from botanical or art-historical vantage points. That is where the books of this new series come in. They present the various garden types from the perspective of contemporary landscape and garden design. Starting from the formidable beauty of the world’s most distinguished gardens, they point the way toward the essential compositional principles, the plants most commonly utilized and their most characteristic uses, and the possibilities for employing them in contemporary projects, thus providing readers with a rich source of inspiration for their own designs and creations. The panorama of "The Chinese Garden" stretches from the surviving historical gardens all the way to such modern examples as the garden at the Bank of China in Hong Kong (designed by I. M. Pei), Ai Weiwei’s Yiwu Riverbank Park, the Garden of Flowering Fragrance in the Los Angeles, California, region and the Garden of Awakening Orchids in Portland, Oregon.
Download or read book Gardens in China written by Peter Valder and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes more than 200 gardens in China from temple courtyards, ancient burial grounds, and imperial tombs to public parks, botanical gardens, and arboreta.
Download or read book Garden Flora written by Noel Kingsbury and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully illustrated reference book covers the origins, ecology and history of popular garden plants.” —Shelf Awareness The oldest rose fossil was found in Colorado and dates to 35 million years ago. Marigolds, infamous for their ability to self-seed, are named for an Etruscan god who sprang from a ploughed field. And daffodils—an icon of spring—were introduced to Britain by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago. Every garden plant has an origination story, and Garden Flora, by noted garden designer Noel Kingsbury, shares them in a beautifully compelling way. This lushly illustrated survey of 133 of the most commonly grown plants explains where each plant came from and the journey it took into home gardens. Kingsbury tells intriguing tales of the most important plant hunters, breeders, and gardeners throughout history, and explores the unexpected ways plants have been used. Richly illustrated with an eclectic mix of new and historical photos, botanical art, and vintage seed packets and catalogs, Garden Flora is a must-have reference for every gardener and plant lover.
Author :Bianca Maria Rinaldi Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 : Total Pages :310 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The "Chinese Garden in Good Taste" by : Bianca Maria Rinaldi
Download or read book The "Chinese Garden in Good Taste" written by Bianca Maria Rinaldi and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, Europe saw a radical change in taste in the art of the garden that led to the development and spread over the continent of gardens inspired by an artistic naturalness. A contribution to this process was also given by the Society of Jesus, whose members were the first who revealed to Europe the natural forms of the gardens of China. The book explores the Jesuits' discovery of that world, and documents and analyzes the materials both on Chinese flora and art of garden they made available during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Providing a picture of the information concerning Chinese plants and gardens transmitted by Jesuits and evaluating the ways in which the gradual deepening of the Jesuits' investigation reflected changes in botanical studies and in gardening taste in European culture of the period as well, the book focuses on European intellectual and social history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as well as on the cultural landscape.
Book Synopsis The Plants of China by : De-Yuan Hong
Download or read book The Plants of China written by De-Yuan Hong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique addition to the botanical literature, this book presents the flora of China in its astonishing diversity.
Book Synopsis Food Plants of China by : Shiu-ying Hu
Download or read book Food Plants of China written by Shiu-ying Hu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. There are two parts in this book. Part 1 introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plants and the spread of Chinese culinary culture to the world. It also describes how the botanical and cultural information was acquired; what plants have been selected by the Chinese people for food; how these foodstuffs are produced, preserved, and prepared; and what the western societies can learn from Chinese practices. Part 2 provides the botanical identification of the plant kingdom for the esculents used in China as food and/or as beverage. The plants are illustrated with line drawings or composite photographic plates. This book is useful not only as a text for general reading, but also as a work reference. Naturally, it would be a useful addition to the general collection of any library.
Book Synopsis China Mother of Gardens by : Ernest H Wilson
Download or read book China Mother of Gardens written by Ernest H Wilson and published by R W Strugnell. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHINA is, indeed, the Mother of Gardens, for of the countries to which our gardens are most deeply indebted she holds the foremost place. From the bursting into blossom of the Forsythias and Yulan Magnolias in the early spring to the Peonies and Roses in summer and the Chrysanthemums in the autumn, China's contributions to the floral wealth of gardens is in evidence. To China the flower lover owes the parents of the modern Rose, be they Tea or Hybrid Tea, Rambler or Polyantha; likewise his greenhouse Azaleas and Primroses, and the fruit grower, his Peaches, Oranges, Lemons and Grapefruit. It is safe to say that there is no garden in this country or in Europe that is without its Chinese representatives and these rank among the finest of tree, shrub, herb and vine. It was in 1899 that I first set foot in China, to leave it finally in 1911. Until 1905 my collecting work was done in the interests of the well known English nursery firm of Veitch, now, alas! no longer in existence; from 1906 to 1911 it was on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. As a result of my plant hunting in China more than a thousand new plants are now established in gardens of America and Europe. The privilege and the opportunity were great and I claim only to have made full use of both. In the following pages will be found some account of my eleven years' wanderings and observations in the Flowery Kingdom. I have endeavored to give a general description of the flora and scenery of western China and of the manners and customs of the little known non-Chinese tribes inhabiting the Chino-Thibetan borderland. I saw China through the eyes of a nature lover and botanist interested in all phases of natural history. Ernest Henry Wilson Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, February 15, 1929.
Book Synopsis The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature by : Duncan Murray Campbell
Download or read book The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature written by Duncan Murray Campbell and published by Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature is the first comprehensive collection in English of over two millennia of Chinese writing about gardens and landscape. Featuring new and previously published translations, this anthology includes a glossary of translated names, Chinese names, and binomials.
Book Synopsis The Garden Plants of China by : Peter Valder
Download or read book The Garden Plants of China written by Peter Valder and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference book carries on from where Siren's The Gardens of China left off 50 years ago. It documents in typical Valder-style 400 of the best-loved plants grown in Chinese gardens, as well as having introductory chapters on Chinese horticulture, and the spread of Chinese plants to the West.
Book Synopsis Another World Lies Beyond by : T. June Li
Download or read book Another World Lies Beyond written by T. June Li and published by Huntington Library Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Lake of Reflected Fragrance to the Pavilion for Washing Away Thoughts to the Isle of Alighting Geese, this gorgeously illustrated volume explores the Huntington's Chinese Garden—Liu Fang Yuan, or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance—one of the largest such gardens outside China. With the first phase of construction completed, the garden opened to visitors in early 2008. It resembles those created in seventeenth-century Suzhou, offering awe-inspiring views and architecture and evoking an era when scholars sought quiet, intimate gardens in which to retreat, write poetry, and practice calligraphy, among many other pursuits. The contributors to Another World Lies Beyond discuss the challenges of constructing the garden in Southern California as well as the cultural traditions and aesthetics of Chinese garden design, especially the ways in which the plants and structures engage the imagination of visitors. Inscribed poetic couplets, literary allusions, botanical motifs, and evocative names for structures reveal layers of symbolism for exploration and interpretation. The volume's final essay describes how plants that originated in China—such as the chrysanthemum, the plum, and the camellia—have shaped that country's ancient botanical heritage and have enriched the gardens of both East and West.
Book Synopsis Ideas of Chinese Gardens by : Bianca Maria Rinaldi
Download or read book Ideas of Chinese Gardens written by Bianca Maria Rinaldi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated collection of essential texts written by European observers from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Ideas of Chinese Gardens chronicles the evolution of Western perceptions of gardens of China, from curiosity to admiration and ultimately to rejection, echoing the changes in European attitudes toward China.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Garden by : Maggie Keswick
Download or read book The Chinese Garden written by Maggie Keswick and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Creating a Chinese Garden by : David Harris Engel
Download or read book Creating a Chinese Garden written by David Harris Engel and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Garden Style by : Faith Whiten
Download or read book Chinese Garden Style written by Faith Whiten and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates a design style that is inspired not only by Chinese gardens but also by a range of oriental images. They are translated into a dramatic style yet is achievable in Western gardens using familiar plants alongside pots and sculpture imported from China. Original woodwork designs are also featured.
