The English Cottage Garden (Country)1 review Jane Taylor, Andrew Lawson George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1994 This book captures the English countryside. I went to England for the first time and loved the countryside! It is so vibrant. My own photographs have never turned out very well so I bought this book while I was there to capture the England that I fell in love with. It has a wide range of beautifully photographed cottages and gardens. I ...             Natural Gardening in Small Spaces3 reviews Noël Kingsbury Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006 Perfect for the small garden + My All-Time Favorite Garden Design Book + Emphasis on natural I have a townhouse and very little room to garden, but I've long desired to plan a garden that would blend in with the woods that back up to our house. This book has given me my inspiration and has cemented my decision to plan a garden that will be both natural, peaceful and beautiful. It may ...             Lost Gardens of England: From the Archives of Country Life1 review Kathryn Bradley-Hole Aurum Press, 2004 The land of fantasy and fairy tale Being such a splendid book, my only want is that it should be in colours. The book captures the spirit of each garden with pictures and words and it feels like reading a fairy tale. It also captures an era lost to us now, of grand houses and parties, ladies in white dresses and men smoking ...             Creative Garden Lighting1 review Michele Osborne Timber Press, Incorporated, 2005 Useless Book This is purely a picture book and the photographs are mostly bad. The whole point of photographing garden lighting is to capture the look of the lighting at twilight. When the photographs are taken too early the lighting has no impact; when taken too late the contrast levels result in hot spots ...             The Making of the Alnwick Garden: A Journey with the Duchess1 review Ian August Pavilion, 2006 Words, not pictures It is a book of many words and few pictures, rather than few words and many pictures. I have visited Alnwick Gardens in Northumberland and hoped that this book would be a good pictorial record as a gift to a friend. But it is profoundly disappointing.             50 Fabulous Ways to Decorate Your Garden: Transform your outside space with easy step-by-step projects and ...1 review Tessa Evelegh Southwater, 2006 It's contents are okay, but the quality of the paper and photos are wonderful,just not my style-too rustic.             Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)2 reviews Laurie Olin University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Insight + Insightful observations for Perceiving the English landscape After reading this book, I went out and bought a sketch book. Now, I'm daydreaming about spending the summer in the English countryside, or perhaps in Italy somewhere. Olin inspires the reader to draw. More importantly, he explains how drawing can help us understand places and the forces that ...             Plant Solutions for Every Garden Nigel Colborn Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006 If you're looking for the right plant for a particular place or purpose, Plant Solutions is an invaluable resource. Whether you have a shady spot, alkaline soil, or a boggy area; you're looking for fall color, cut flowers, or ground cover; or need to consider pollution tolerance or allergies, the extensive plant suggestions in this thorough directory will help you make the right choices. Each ...             The Gap in the Hedge: Dispatches from the Extraordinary World of British Gardening Charles Elliott The Lyons Press, 1998 Here is a fresh crop of Charles Elliott's pungent, funny, and thoroughly unpredictable essays from that heartland of horticultural fanaticism, Great Britain. Ranging from deeply felt reflections on stinging nettles and giant hogweed to an examination of the English gardener's obsession with privacy, these essays demonstrate once again why Elliott's columns have so delighted readers of ...             Tudor and Stuart Gardens (Historic Gardens) (Historic Gardens) Anne Jennings English Heritage, 2005 Tudor and Stuart Gardens explores the love of formality that characterised gardening in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the influence of Renaissance culture on British gardens. Intricate knot gardens and parterres, the structural use of topiary and hedges and the period's fascination with non-native plants influenced the evolution of British gardens over the following centuries. This was a time ...             English Gardens in the Twentieth Century: From the Archives of Country Life3 reviews Tim Richardson Aurum Press, 2005 A century of beautiful gardens + A Jewel For over a century, Country Life magazine has been documenting the great houses and gardens in England. Their photographic library consists of over 10,000 images - this book presents 200 of them, beginning with the formal bedding gardens of Victorian England and progressing through the Arts and ...             Gardens by Design1 review Noel Kingsbury Timber Press, Incorporated, 2005 very basic Althought the photos are beautiful and the book does give some overview of the work of some prominent designers in the field today, the advice given is very basic. It's sort of on the line of "create an axis" kind of advice. Still, it's a pretty coffee table book, and something to look at when ...             A Garden Rhapsody: Enchanted English Cottage Gardens And Floral Melodies2 reviews edel classics edel CLASSICS GmbH, 2006 Only one word.... beautiful!! I was looking for a book with nice photos to help me start my new garden, and I got it. But I must say I never thought I would get the beautiful pictures and also be able to listen to wonderful music while I was working on it!!             Gardens Through Time: Celebrate 200 Years of Gardening with the Royal Horticultural Society1 review Jane Owen, Diarmuid Gavin BBC Books, 2004 A fascinating and beautiful book I loved this book - incredibly interesting and informative but surprisingly easy to read. A beautifully written book which everyone should own - an excellent present             Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook8 reviews Jennifer Bartley Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006 Gardener's inspiration + book review + Beautiful, enlightening AND practical + Something I've wanted for a while... + Great Gift for Garden Loving Friend!             Shakespeare in the Garden2 reviews Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006 Beyond my expectations + REFRESHINGLY SURPRISING, INFORMATIVE When you purchase a book online, one that you are buying for the photographs, you are taking a risk that it will not meet your expectations. Rest assured that THIS book is one that is what you expect it to be and beyond. Not only are the photographs of the gardens beautiful, but most helpful, and ...             A Year at Kew1 review Rupert Smith BBC Books, 2005 Excellent book - highly recommended I enjoyed this book - it reminded me of my trip to Kew gardens a few years ago. It is amazing to read about the changes as the year goes by, and all the activities behind the scenes Highly recommended!!             Laskett, The Roy Strong Transworld Publishers, 2003 The Laskett is an intimate history of the garden Roy Strong made with his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman—the largest formal garden created in the country since 1945. This personal book is the tale of a marriage as much as the tale of a garden, as into the Laskett they etched their own biographies, including many of the people who have crossed their lives and are commemorated within it.             One Hundred English Gardens: The Best of the English Heritage Parks and Gardens Register2 reviews Patrick Taylor Rizzoli International Publications, 2002 Mine and Kevin's Garden Someday Beautiful - serene - inspirational. A home and a garden like ones in the book is my piece of Heaven on earth. Beautifully illustrated - enough to touch and feel the warmth and glory of Nature!             Victorian Gardens (Historic Gardens) (Historic Gardens) Anne Jennings English Heritage, 2005 The varied tastes of the Victorians extended to their gardens and landscapes, and Victorian Gardens describes the wide range of garden designs and planting styles that were created during Victoria's reign. The Victorians' inventiveness and enthusiasm for technology and industrial developments transformed professional British gardening into a sophisticated and skilled profession. Public parks, ...