Gardens for the 21st Century

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GARDENS FOR THE CENTURY
The aim of this book is to present to gardeners everywhere outstanding examples of the work of contemporary garden designers from all over the world - describing and illustrating a wide variety of innovative and exciting ideas which point the way towards the garden styles of the coming century.
Anita Pereire, herself a garden designer of great distinction, has chosen over fifty gardens from five continents to illustrate the enormous diversity and daring of the designers who are exploring and transforming the traditional concept of a garden. Each chapter looks at variations on a theme - the organic garden, the grass garden, the water garden, the sculpture garden - or at the designs of those who are working within a particular tradition - the plant-lovers, the restorers and recreators of classic gardens, or the followers of the Japanese ideal of purity and simplicity.
There are gardens on the grand scale, such as Charies Jencks' cosmologically-inspired... Tovább

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GARDENS FOR THE CENTURY
The aim of this book is to present to gardeners everywhere outstanding examples of the work of contemporary garden designers from all over the world - describing and illustrating a wide variety of innovative and exciting ideas which point the way towards the garden styles of the coming century.
Anita Pereire, herself a garden designer of great distinction, has chosen over fifty gardens from five continents to illustrate the enormous diversity and daring of the designers who are exploring and transforming the traditional concept of a garden. Each chapter looks at variations on a theme - the organic garden, the grass garden, the water garden, the sculpture garden - or at the designs of those who are working within a particular tradition - the plant-lovers, the restorers and recreators of classic gardens, or the followers of the Japanese ideal of purity and simplicity.
There are gardens on the grand scale, such as Charies Jencks' cosmologically-inspired earthworks in the Scottish Borders or Keir Davidson's two-hundred-acre wonderiand of water, rock and trees at Quaker Hill in New Yori State; but there are also intimate patio and town gardens and the urban grottoes of Belinda Eade. There are gardens that set out to astonish or even to affront, such as Ian Hamilton Finlay's cryptic Little Sparta or the landscapes populated by Sally Matthews' startlingly primeval sculptures of wild beasts; but there are also gardens, such as Abbaye d'Orsan in France or the newly restored Heligan in Cornwall, which reaffinn familiar values. There are tropical gardens in Africa, the Caribbean and South America which startle the eye with the vigour of their colours, but also gardens in Europe and North America which exploit the gentler, subtler tones of a temperate climate. There are gardens which rely for their effect upon artifice at its most elaborate -for example, Margot Knox's Australian mosaic garden or Adrian Fisher's intricate mazes - and others - Miriam Rothschild's wildflower garden, for instance, or Princess Sturdza's or^ganic garden at Vasterival - which are inspired by an attachment to native species and natural processes.
In short, this lavishly illustrated book cannot fail to provide all gardeners, whatever their taste and location, however great or small their resources, with inspiration, stimulation and a whole host of new ideas. Vissza