Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden, 1501-1900

by Stephen Harris

Beautifully illustrated, Planting Paradise charts the evolution of thinking about the cultivation of gardens from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In this age of discovery, when the world was being explored as never before, gardening itself took on new dimensions. The Renaissance belief in direct observation of nature offered an alternative way of thinking and inspired the scientific approach of the Enlightenment, and soon gardens were no...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851243437
• ISBN13: 9781851243433
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.0" x 9.8"