GARDEN DESIGN

Colombia: Editores Villegas,Colombia, 2001. Unlike architecture, sculpture or painting, the art of gardening produces living works that grow, blossom, change, and fade. As such, the garden could be considered the supreme work of art, and indeed it has been so in all civilisations. A garden on any scale enhances the architecture it surrounds. What would Versailles have been without its spectacular gardens and their orderly vistas, or the great country houses in England without the eighteenth-century landscape designers? Likewise it is hard to imagine rural or urban houses in Colombia without their planned patios and courtyards. The jagged geography of Colombia divides it into several contrasting regions: the Caribbean coast, Antioquia, Santander, Cundinamarca and Boyaca, the Cauca valley, and the plains of the Llanos, to mention a few. The climates and flora of these areas are markedly different, but their inhabitants share in common love for plants and a keen interest in gardening. Long before there were professional gardeners and landscape designers, all Colombians, from the wealthy hacendados to the modest campesinos, devised and planted their own gardens, according to personal taste and economic limitations. A delightful eclecticism is captured in these pages in hundreds of photographs of every type of garden from extravagant parks to minute flowered niches. Experimentation is commonplace; each journey and Sunday excursion brings home additional plants. With the added factor of unpredictable rainfalls and prolonged droughts, most Colombian gardens are aesthetic and horticultural laboratories. In the course of compiling the photographic material for this book, it proved impossible to include all gardens worthy of presentation, nor could all the gardens featured here be photographed at the peak of their splendour. Nevertheless, the attentive reader will be able to enjoy an impressive range of plants, colour, composition and integration of cultivation with the natural landscape, which, in the absence of a great classical tradition, make up the particular charm of the Colombian garden. 224pp. . ISBN: 958939311X. Second Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Item Postage Quote. ARCHITECTURE TOWN PLANNING GARDENING GARDEN COLOMBIA LATIN AMERICA. more information

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Charleston, SC, U.S.A.: Wyrick & Company, 2001. Capturing the distinct architectural and horticultural character of the remarkable city of Charleston and providing a rewarding collection of ideas, advice and anecdotes from the city's gardeners.98pp.. ISBN: 0941711595. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Principal Photography By Chambers, Lauren Preller . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Chap Book. AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY ANIMAL HUSBANDRY GENERAL. more information

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Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003. Landscape gardening involves a partnership between gardener and environment, and an understanding of why and how plants grow where they do. Phillips takes the reader on an illustrated garden tour; through the rich ecosystems of the Southwest; and into gardens she has designed in the upland forests, shrub or desert grasslands, riparian oases, and arid city plots. Her plant palette includes: native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and grasses, and embraces dozens of adaptive plants; that will flourish in the demanding conditions of the upland and desert West. 200pp. . ISBN: 0890132771. Paperback. As New/No d/j as Published. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. GARDENS_UNITED STATES NEW MEXICO. more information

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London: The National Trust in Association with Pitkin Pictorials Ltd, 1994. 176pp.. ISBN: 0853727333. Reprinted with Corrections . Paperback. As New/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GARDENS DESIGN ARCHITECTURE. more information

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1999. Signed by the author. An exploration of the gardens at Heligan in Cornwall, which describes how the Victorians came to create such a site, how it fell into neglect after the First World War, and how it was rescued and recreated over seventy years later. 282pp.. ISBN: 0575067659. Revised. Card Covers. Fine/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GARDENS HELIGAN VICTORIAN HISTORY. more information

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