LIVES OF THE GREAT GARDENERS

Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professi onal designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such as sculpture or painting/ some have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common, no matter where or when they were born, 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 political...[Read more]