The Plants That Shaped Our Gardens

by David Stuart

Inspiration, happy accidents, and outright obsessions have all had their way with gardens--but nothing has done more to shape the modern garden than plants themselves. In a story that ranges from continent to continent and spans four centuries, botanist and gardener David Stuart reveals how the garden as we know it was created not by garden designers but by ordinary gardeners responding to exotic and novel plants that suggested new spaces, places,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007905
• ISBN13: 9780674007901
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 10.8"