What Are Gardens For?: Experiencing, Making and Thinking About Gardens - Hardcover

Stuart, Rory

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9780711233645: What Are Gardens For?: Experiencing, Making and Thinking About Gardens
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0711233640 ISBN 13: 9780711233645
Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2012

Synopsis

What do we expect of gardens - when we make them and when we visit them? Could we get more from them, if we thought harder about what it is we want and why we make gardens? This book approaches the experience of being in a garden from many different angles, questioning many of our easily-adopted assumptions and suggesting ways of getting more from any garden, whether it is our own or one we are visiting.

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About the Author

Rory Stuart is the author of Gardens of the World: the Great Traditions. He worked as a teacher of English literature in India and America and at Uppingham School, Westminster School, and The Cheltenham Ladies' College. He inherited a Cotswold cottage with a beautiful garden and began to look at plants and gardens critically, which eventually led to a course in Garden Design. He set up as a designer, and began writing articles for magazines including Hortus, The Garden, The English Garden and The Historic Gardens Review. He has led garden tours of France, India and Italy and his fascination with gardens has now taken him to Rome, where he is learning how to grow plants in the challenging conditions of the hills outside the city.

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Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0711233640
ISBN 13 
9780711233645
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192
Rating
  • 3.43 out of 5 stars
    7 ratings by Goodreads