This guide to garden design provides the reader with a tour of more than 30 of France's most beautiful gardens. They range in size from enormous estates to tiny urban oases, showing the diversity of gardening styles that exists within France. Some subtly reflect their surroundings, others are geometric in plan; some show a strong English influence or are guided by color harmonies, while others simply exude their owners' love of cultivating plants.

French Garden Style

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Valéry, Marie-Françoise

Leveque, Georges

Gardening & Landscape Design

Frances Lincoln

B E S Pub Co

Colourful spices from Asia, the Americas and the Mediterranean enrich today's world cuisines with incomparable aromas. Find out about the origins, uses and properties of cinnamon, nutmeg, saffron, cardamom, curcuma, vanilla, ginger, aniseed, coriander, pepper, mustard and many more. Includes the fascinating history of the spice trail, information on the collection and preparation of spices, and tips for preservation, as well as a useful address book and delicious recipes!

Book of Spices

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

Hachette Ill

Takes the reader on a photographic tour of the the Gardens of the Loire Valley.

Gardens of the Loire Valley: Through the Seasons

Reference

Antique Collectors Club Dist

The rich and varied landscapes of Normandy, dotted with apple orchards and tall hedgerows, harbor some of the most beautiful gardens in France. Gardens in Normandy is a breathtaking tour of the region's finest horticultural treasures, from the fertile Seine Valley to the magnificent wind-swept cliffs overlooking the English Channel. The forty gardens featured reveal an extraordinary diversity of styles and influences: flower gardens, where subtle colors harmonize with the region's characteristic half-timbered houses and dovecotes; collectors' gardens filled with rare and exotic plants; English gardens by such celebrated landscape designers as Russell Page and Gertrude Jekyll; the elaborate arabesques and topiaries of elegant châteaux parterres; and tempting gourmet kitchen gardens. Water plays an important role in this province, which is traversed by myriad small rivers and streams, and among the spectacular water gardens readers will be delighted to discover a fresh perspective on Claude Monet's beloved domain at Giverny. Superb color photographs by Vincent Motte and Christian Sarramon, commissioned specially for this volume, reveal the beauty of these gardens in every season, while a comprehensive visitor's guide provides a list of regional plants, details on how to visit these gardens, and a selection of charming hotels and restaurants. As a lavishly illustrated introduction to Normandy and its gardens, this book will become a cherished source of inspiration for garden lovers and a delightful companion for travelers.

Gardens in Normandy

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Flammarion

Jardins d'herbes

LE CHENE

Les Epices

Boussahba, Sophie

Éditions du Chêne

Garten in Der Provence Und an Der Cote D'azur

Taschen America, LLC

Jardins De Provence Et De La Cote D'azur

Enduring inspiration to countless artists, Provence is a rural paradise, a verdant, fertile environment that offers endless opportunities for those practitioners of what the philosopher Francis Bacon called ""the purest of human joys"". The art of landscape gardening demonstrates more than almost any other activity the human need to create havens of peace and contemplation. Benignly Fashioning nature, the landscape gardener responds to what is present, as well as importing dazzling exotic plants and trees to reveal an extraordinary new world of the senses. Provence then is a gardener's idyll -- a place where the extremes of ""wilderness"" and the symmetry of geometric construction come together in some extraordinary designs. These creations building on the qualities of the area -- light and a dry climate -- do not divorce themselves from their surroundings but rather create the impression that indeed the whole of Provence is one magnificent garden. Whether employing the region's evergreens, its widespread shrubbery (for topiary), its lavender meadows, its plentiful herbs and spices, or its ""desert"" vegetation -- cactus and the like -- the soil's the limit and the imagination the only perimeter Fence. From the humid tropical to the unspoilt hills, From the cubist inspiration at Hyres to the Zen patterns of Erik Borja, and from the coast to the valleys, only in Provence can you say that you walk in gardens as varied as dreams, yet as sensual as life.

Gardens of Provence and the Cote D'Azur/Jardins De Provence Et De LA Cote D'Azur/Garten in Der Provence Und an Der Cote D'Azur: Jardins De Provence Et De LA Cote D'Azur = Garten in Der Provence Und an Der Cote D'Azur

Taschen, Angelika

Schaewen, Deidi Von

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