Flowers in the world's most beautiful gardens by Allain, Yves-Marie

Flowers in the world's most beautiful gardens (#0503CC8)

by Allain, Yves-Marie
Hardcover Abrams, 2012
Dewey: 635.9; Audience: Adult
Description: 239 pages : color illustrations; 27 x 30 cm

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Product Overview
From Follett
Translation of: La fleur dans l'art des jardins.;Includes bibliographical references (page 235-236).;From botanical curiosity to common garden decoration -- Exotic, indigenous, and exogenous plants -- Pleasure gardens -- The rose -- Floral decoration in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- The flower in the classical French formal garden -- The tulip -- New theories of color in the nineteenth century -- Chevreul's theory of color -- The rhododendron and the azalea -- Scientific and technical progress in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- The water lily -- Floral carpets -- Mosaiculture -- Herbaceous perennial flower beds -- Wisteria --The peony -- The flower-covered meadow -- Grasses -- Conclusion. Explores the flower in landscape design, tracing the history of flower gardens from the Middle Ages to the present, and contains more than one hundred-eighty photographs of the world's most extraordinary gardens.
From the Publisher

Flowers in the World's Most Beautiful Gardens puts the spotlight on the star of the garden--the flower. Tracing the history of flower gardens from the Middle Ages to today, the book discusses the types of flowers commonly planted, the landscape designs, the advances in technology, and how these practices have changed throughout the centuries. Each chapter also focuses on a significant type of bloom--the rose, iris, and tulip, among others.
Illustrated with more than 180 exquisite photographs by Alain Le Toquin, this book features the world's most extraordinary flower gardens, showcasing gardens in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, New Zealand, Russia, the United States, Thailand, and many more.

Product Details
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • Publication Date: October 1, 2012
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Edition: Abrams ed.
  • Dewey: 635.9
  • Classifications: Nonfiction
  • Description: 239 pages : color illustrations; 27 x 30 cm
  • Tracings: Le Toquin, Alain.
  • ISBN-10: 1-41970-558-X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-41970-558-8
  • LCCN: 2012-021482
  • Follett Number: 0503CC8
  • Audience: Adult