Gardens in Provence

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Ever since the early nineteenth century, when French Romantics sought the savage forces of nature and British aristocrats began vacationing on the Riviera, the countryside of Provence has fascinated travelers. The heart of Provence—the lower Rhône valley—offers an incomparable range of sites: Roman ruins, winding Renaissance hill towns, and labyrinthine grottoes dominated by silver peaks. Yet Provençal gardenë have remained as secret as the region is famous.
Gardens in Provence takes us on a fascinating private toUr of the most beautiful hidden treasures in the south of France: the painstaldngly shaped and tended gardens of bastides and mas with their lavender parterres and rosemary hedges, and the magnificent shaded walkways and murmuring canals of châteaux and cloister gardens, hidden behind high walls. Author Louisa Jones spent more than five years visiting nearly two hundred gardens to produce this unique chapter in the literature of gardening and landscape architecture. Her... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Ever since the early nineteenth century, when French Romantics sought the savage forces of nature and British aristocrats began vacationing on the Riviera, the countryside of Provence has fascinated travelers. The heart of Provence—the lower Rhône valley—offers an incomparable range of sites: Roman ruins, winding Renaissance hill towns, and labyrinthine grottoes dominated by silver peaks. Yet Provençal gardenë have remained as secret as the region is famous.
Gardens in Provence takes us on a fascinating private toUr of the most beautiful hidden treasures in the south of France: the painstaldngly shaped and tended gardens of bastides and mas with their lavender parterres and rosemary hedges, and the magnificent shaded walkways and murmuring canals of châteaux and cloister gardens, hidden behind high walls. Author Louisa Jones spent more than five years visiting nearly two hundred gardens to produce this unique chapter in the literature of gardening and landscape architecture. Her lively and informative text marries history with horticulture to show us how the gardens of Provence and their surrounding landscape have developed in a continuing reciprocity. She conveys all the antique charm of Provençal public gardens with their dramatic terracing and ancient ruins, and takes us to meet the owners of elegant manor houses and modern villas-
-owners
who have opened their doors for the first time to reveal the secret places that have been nurtured by generations of loving hands for private pleasure and enjoyment.
With its extensive plant list and visitor's guide, this book should be an unending source of inspiration for garden lovers, and a unique guide for travelers discovering an unknown aspect of Provence. Spectacular photographs Ijy Vincent Motte capture all the color, beauty and magic of this Eden on earth. Vissza