![]() There's a wildflower meadow, a formal axis path from the Georgian house planted with thyme, which is attractive to bees, and yews cut into massive ornamental shapes, looking like oversized imperial crowns.Ī useful glossary at the end of the book defines, among other terms, "borrowed landscape" - a feature intrinsic to so many English gardens. Highgrove, the longtime home of King Charles III before he ascended to the throne, is surrounded by a mostly informal garden in keeping with his organic principles. Decidedly more urban in feel is the Barbican Conservatory and Gardens, in which grasses and terraced plantings soften the art center's massive, concrete Brutalist architecture. The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden in Cornwall, also dating from the last century, is an outdoor gallery for her organically shaped stone and bronze sculptures. The even more fanciful topiary at Balmoral Cottage, mainly yews clipped into creatures and spirals, is the work of the distinctive 20th-21st century garden designer, Charlotte Molesworth. The 16th century topiary bushes in Levens Hall are cut in geometric shapes, some of which resemble ladies' hats. Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, 18th–20th century.Ĭourtesy Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset/Photo Jason Ingram/Phaidon Hestercombe Gardens, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset. Naturally, it includes national treasures like Sissinghurst, Blenheim, Highgrove, Hampton Court, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, with its famous Palm House conservatory. Standing just behind the women, somewhat awkwardly - and almost lost among the blooms - is none other than Vincent Van Gogh, at the ready with a vase of sunflowers.Īttention, Anglophiles! The English Gardener's Garden isn't a travel guide, but it might help you plot (ahem) your next excursion across the pond. Wells, Harriet Tubman, and Rosa Parks - are shown seated amidst a field of vibrant sunflowers in Arles, France, working together on a sunflower quilt. Eight influential Black American women - including Sojourner Truth, Ida B. One of my favorite pieces is Faith Ringgold's 1991 acrylic painting, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles. Mrs Fujita Working in Her Tiny Vegetable Garden She Has Planted in Front of Her Barrack Home, 1942, San Bruno, California, as pictured in Gardens.ĭorothea Lange/National Archives /Phaidon More sobering is Dorothea Lange's 1942 photograph of a Japanese American woman interned during WWII working in the tiny vegetable garden she has planted in front of her barrack home in San Bruno, California. Toshi Yoshida's 1963 woodblock print of Ginkakuji Garden, the Zen Buddhist Temple of the Silver Pavilion near Kyoto, with its striking grey raked sand against a backdrop of stylized green pines, is particularly appealing. ![]() Japanese gardens, including Ryuanji, convey the appeal of gardens as sanctuaries. On the facing page, a film publicity still for Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands features an enormous hand made from steel armatures covered by chicken wire and layers of silk and plastic greenery. Speaking of cut, if you like fancifully clipped bushes, you'll appreciate Tony Ray-Jones' 1970 photograph of 16 tightly spaced topiary dogs, 2 cats, and 1 rat in the eccentric Wolverhampton Garden. Monet, Renoir, Peter Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, and Olmsted's plan for New York's Central Park also make the cut. Voysey's Arts and Crafts 1923 wallpaper, among others. Not surprisingly, the Garden of Eden is a recurring motif, represented by Albrecht Dürer's 1504 engraving of Adam and Eve and C.F.A. A more recent focus has been on "Earth friendly" gardens that benefit wildlife and mitigate climate change by creating essential nature reserves and sanctuaries managed and shaped by gardeners. Garden chronicles humankind's enduring love of gardening as it has evolved over four millennia, first from the necessity to cultivate food, but later in a drive to create beauty and paradise on Earth. It's another superbly curated, broad-reaching collection, this time ripe with images of garden-related paintings, photographs, advertising posters, jewelry, ceramics, textiles, sculptures, postage stamps, design plans, and seed packages. Garden follows their splendid Bird, my favorite coffee table book of 2021. Phaidon is celebrating its 100th anniversary of publishing art books by taking a well-earned victory lap. Garden: Exploring the Horticultural World All three of these books would make wonderful gifts for gardeners and armchair oglers alike, and may tempt you to book a garden tour - or even plant some bulbs and seeds yourself.
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