Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted 'The Book of Fires', an extraordinary tale of love and science.

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing - reissues of long-lost seminal works.

A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.

This magnificently illustrated people's history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own.

HIGHGROVE: A GARDEN CELEBRATED is a commemoration of the beautiful, mature gardens planned and planted by The Prince of Wales over thirty years ago.

'Wonderful.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

Lin Foxhall explores the cultivation of the olive as an extended case study for understanding ancient Greek agriculture in its landscape, economic, social, and political settings.

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions.

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions.

"e;Stevens has skillfully tied the seemingly mundane-how to grow food, cook, shop, stay healthy-to our deepest spiritual and transformative aspirations.

This book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces.

This book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces.

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.

Outdoor Environments for People addresses the everyday human behavior in outdoor built environments and explains how designers can learn about and incorporate their knowledge into places they help to create.

Outdoor Environments for People addresses the everyday human behavior in outdoor built environments and explains how designers can learn about and incorporate their knowledge into places they help to create.

A showcase of Britain's most extraordinary gardens and landscapes from the twentieth century to present day.

How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigms-like fair, right, good-convey different meanings?

Increasingly landscape architects, garden designers, and healthcare professionals are asked to create gardens that meet the physical, psychological, emotional, and social needs of a wide range of users.

Increasingly landscape architects, garden designers, and healthcare professionals are asked to create gardens that meet the physical, psychological, emotional, and social needs of a wide range of users.