MCC Book of Cricket Cartoons and Caricatures (The MCC Cricket Library)

PLUMPTRE, GEORGE

Sports & Outdoors

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Fast Set: The World of Edwardian Racing

Individual Sports

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Back Page Racing

Macdonald Co.

Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of History and Practice

The authors trace the use of ornamental features throughout the history of the Western garden, and demonstrate how long held and tested principles of garden design can be applied to modern gardens.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Palmer, Hugh

Gardening & Landscape Design

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

The Water Garden: Style, Designs and Visions

Thames&Hudson

The tremendous upsurge of interest in garden history and design in recent years has prompted a renewed fascination with the art and artifacts of garden ornament. Those decorative objects--buildings, statues, urns, balustrades, trellises, fountains, ironwork, seats--lend character and definition to garden layout and play an important part in contemporary horticultural design. One of the most significant additions to the literature of horticulture in recent times, this volume surveys ornament in garden design of the past and analyzes the use of different types of ornament in gardens old and new. George Plumptre traces the use of ornamental features throughout the history of the Western garden from the great formal gardens of Italy and France to the more intimate creations of contemporary design. Taking the principal categories of ornament in turn, he shows how, over the last five hundred years, garden designers have used stone, wood, and metal to enhance and modify the natural features of the landscape. He then analyzes the role of ornament in modern garden design, showing how long-held and tested principles of design can be applied imaginatively in the typical modern garden. Finally, there is an illustrated survey of the great variety of ornaments that can still be found, and that are well within the reach of the modern gardener. The photographs of contemporary gardens are the work of Hugh Palmer. His pictures, rich in atmosphere and acutely sensitive to detail, make Garden Ornament doubly indispensable for garden historians as well as for gardeners in search of detailed information and inspiration.

Arts & Photography

Throughout history, water has been a versatile and vital resource for the garden. It was the essential element in the earliest gardens of the and Near East. And today water provides settings and opportunities for an exciting combination of plants and architectural ornament.

The Water Garden: Styles, Designs, and Visions

Lavishly illustrated, THE GARDEN MAKERS profiles more than seventy gardeners, profesional and amateur, from Frederick Law Olmsted to Vita Sackville-West

The Garden Makers: The Great Tradition of Garden Design from 1600 to the Present Day

Random House]

Great Gardens, Great Designers

Ward Lock Ltd.

Quarto, 1996, PP.159, Influential Designers And Plantsmen Whose Work Has Been Of Fundamental Importance

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

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