EAN: 9780500297049

LIVES OF THE GREAT GARDENERS - STEPHEN ANDERTON...

The lives of 40 men and women behind some of the world¿s most exciting gardens. Throughout
history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur
gardeners  others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to
garden-making from sister arts such as sculpture or painting  others have been hands-on
nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and
develop it in a new manner relevant to their times. The book contains four sections. `Gardens
of Ideas¿ moves from the politically allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such
as William Kent  to Charles Jencks¿s Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century cosmography.
`Gardens of Straight Lines¿ explores the lives of the great formalist gardeners  from Le Nôtre
at Versailles to the rational English minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher
Bradley-Hole. `Gardens of Curves¿ begins with that great exponent of the English landscape
garden  `Capability¿ Brown  and leads to the extraordinary Brazilian designer Roberto Burle
Marx. Finally  `Gardens of Plantsmanship¿ moves from the father of naturalistic planting 
William Robinson  to the sweeping prairies of New York¿s favourite Dutch designer  Piet Oudolf.

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