The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 172-18

by Mark Laird

The park of lawns, trees, and serpentine lakes in a picturesque composition of greens has long been viewed as the enduring achievement of eighteenth-century English landscape art. Yet this conventional view of the picturesque style ignores the colorful flowers and flowering shrubs that graced the landscape garden of the Georgian era.

While the book is primarily devoted to the historical reconstruction of the formal and horticultural characteristics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081223457X
• ISBN13: 9780812234572
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 5.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.7" x 11.4"