Penelope Hobhouse's Gardening Through the Ages: An Illustrated History of Plants and Their Influence on Garden Styles-From Ancient Egypt to the Pres

By Penelope Hobhouse

Book Overview

Penelope Hobhouse's definitive account is illustrated with an unsurpassed selection of pictures. Chronological narrative and instructive digressions alternate in the text to illuminate how the art of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671728873
• ISBN13: 9780671728878
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.3" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

More of a textbook than a coffee table book

Every page is packed with color plates and useful (fun) information on gardening. Contents: • The origins of Gardening in the West • The Gardens of Islam • The Medieval Gardens of Christendom • Botanists, Plantmen, and Gardens of Renaissance Europe • The Gardens of the Italian Renaissance • The Origin and Development of French Formality • The Eighteenth-century English Landscape • Expansion and Experiment in the Nineteenth Century • The twentieth Century: Conservation of Plants in Gardening If you are a Brother Cadfael fan, you will appreciate the section on “Medieval Gardens of Christendom.”