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Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, this book explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects,(...)
Beyond the garden: Designing home landscapes with natural systems
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Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, this book explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-conscious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.
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A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings.
Geopedia: A brief compendium of geologic curiosities
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A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings.
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A fun and fact-filled A–Z treasury for the insect lover in all of us.
Insectpedia: A brief compedium of insect lore
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A fun and fact-filled A–Z treasury for the insect lover in all of us.
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Forget the mild, manicured gardens of the past: planting today is undergoing a revolution in taste and aesthetics. This is the first comprehensive overview of a new planting approach that is wild and natural by nature, reflecting the global turn towards sustainability and the current zeitgeist in garden design. Featuring over 40 gardens - from a perennial meadow in East(...)
Wild: the naturalistics garden
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Forget the mild, manicured gardens of the past: planting today is undergoing a revolution in taste and aesthetics. This is the first comprehensive overview of a new planting approach that is wild and natural by nature, reflecting the global turn towards sustainability and the current zeitgeist in garden design. Featuring over 40 gardens - from a perennial meadow in East Sussex, England to a private, drought-resistant garden in Australia - each garden in this stunning book is brought to life with beautiful photography and insightful text.
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Villa d'Este in Tivoli
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The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, internationally renowned for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden containing an outstanding array of fountains, nymphaea, grottoes, water features and atmospheric sound effects. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, the garden is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of Italian(...)
Villa d'Este in Tivoli
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The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, internationally renowned for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden containing an outstanding array of fountains, nymphaea, grottoes, water features and atmospheric sound effects. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, the garden is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of Italian Renaissance gardens in Europe. Villa d’Este was first conceived of in 1550 by the governor of Tivoli, Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este, who had long envisioned a garden built on the slopes of the valley known as Valle Gaudente. But it was only after 1560 that the villa’s architectural and iconological blueprint was defined by painter-archaeologist-architect Pirro Ligorio and executed by court architect Alberto Galvani. When Ippolito d’Este died in 1572, the project was nearly complete.
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This volume describes over 50 of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary and storied plants – from the screaming mandrake to calming St John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore heads, protection from evil spirits and to even induce immortality. Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists: whatever you(...)
The Witch's Garden: Plants in Folklore, Magic and Traditional Medicine
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This volume describes over 50 of the world's most powerful, harmful, legendary and storied plants – from the screaming mandrake to calming St John's Wort, to predicting the weather with seaweed, the creation of salves for broken hearts, sore heads, protection from evil spirits and to even induce immortality. Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists: whatever you like to call them, those who cultivate plants for their apparent mystical properties have existed for thousands of years. The Witch's Garden tells the story of our folkloric fascination with these magical specimens, documenting the beliefs and rituals surrounding the natural world. Illustrated with pages from herbals held within the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, along with botanical illustrations and archival images depicting magic and mayhem, The Witch's Garden beautifully evokes the bewitching nature of mysterious plants.
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Garden design and usage has been a feature of human civilization as far back as Neolithic times, when the first gardens began to be used for residential, horticultural and sacred tasks. Tom Turner follows the entire history of the European garden from its prehistoric roots right up to the present day in this illustrated book.
European gardens: history, philosophy and design
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Garden design and usage has been a feature of human civilization as far back as Neolithic times, when the first gardens began to be used for residential, horticultural and sacred tasks. Tom Turner follows the entire history of the European garden from its prehistoric roots right up to the present day in this illustrated book.
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Architecture now! Landscape
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One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is clearly landscape architecture. This book calls on the work of the top designers of the moment who have long been fascinated by the environments of their buildings, exploring the limit between architecture and landscape.
Architecture now! Landscape
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One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is clearly landscape architecture. This book calls on the work of the top designers of the moment who have long been fascinated by the environments of their buildings, exploring the limit between architecture and landscape.
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This is an eclectic, yet rigorous reflection on the relationship - historical, present and future - between humanity and the garden. Through the lens of Utopian Studies - the interdisciplinary field that encompasses fictions all the way through to actual political projects, and urban ideals; in a nutshell, addressing the human natural drive towards the ideal - Earth(...)
Earth perfect? Nature, utopia and the garden
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This is an eclectic, yet rigorous reflection on the relationship - historical, present and future - between humanity and the garden. Through the lens of Utopian Studies - the interdisciplinary field that encompasses fictions all the way through to actual political projects, and urban ideals; in a nutshell, addressing the human natural drive towards the ideal - Earth Perfect? brings together a selection of essays, each contributed by writers from the fields of architecture, history of art, classics, cultural studies, farming, geography, horticulture, landscape architecture, law, literature, philosophy, urban planning and the natural sciences.
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Pour sa 21e édition, le Festival International des jardins a invité des concepteurs venus du monde entier à imaginer les projets les plus étonnants autour du thème " Jardins des délices, jardins des délires ". Fondé en 1992, le Festival International des jardins a su s'imposer comme un rendez-vous incontournable de la créations paysagère et jardiniste. Prisé des(...)
Jardins des délices, jardins des délires
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Pour sa 21e édition, le Festival International des jardins a invité des concepteurs venus du monde entier à imaginer les projets les plus étonnants autour du thème " Jardins des délices, jardins des délires ". Fondé en 1992, le Festival International des jardins a su s'imposer comme un rendez-vous incontournable de la créations paysagère et jardiniste. Prisé des professionnels du monde entier, le concours international préalable à chaque édition reçoit des centaines de propositions. Vingt-et-un projets d'exception ont été retenus par le jury présidé en 2012 par le célèbre chef cuisinier Alain Passard auxquels s'ajoutent les invités du Domaine. Référence au jardin comme haut lieu d'harmonie et de fertilité, ces " Jardins des délices, jardins des délires " évoquent l'Eden et les paysages idylliques de l'Arcadie.
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