,Published by Ward Lock , 1995 hardcover, large format, illustrated, index, 160 pages, condition: new.
Using beautiful color photos featuring garden vistas and black-and-white photos of garden designers and garden sketches, Plumptre covers modern garden design from the Arts and Crafts Movement of the 19th century to the present time. Plumptre makes good use of his credentials as an authority on garden design in capturing the ideas and designs of the most prominent English practitioners as seen through European and American gardens. The latter part of the book covers architecture, formal and informal shapes, borders, water features, ornaments, shrubs and trees, and small gardens as elements of garden design. This is an ideal source for the reader who needs pertinent information on garden design with an emphasis on English designers. The absence of a bibliography is remedied by the numerous bibliographical references throughout the text to source material. Useful for larger public and academic libraries collecting in the garden design area.?Dale Luchsinger, Athens Area Technical Inst., Ga.
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British gardening writer Plumptre aims to illuminate the evolution of an Anglo-American gardening style. To accomplish that objective, he presents a survey of talented individuals who applied design principles with the utmost finesse, arriving at an exquisite aesthetic that is embodied in the gardens featured here. The study begins with examples of formal, Italianate landscapes of the Victorian era and extends to contemporary designs far more intimate in scale. Fortunately, Plumptre is free of pedantic posturing. Instead, his clearly descriptive writing traces changing trends in garden design over the past two centuries. This inspiring, accessible resource contains many lovely color plates to illustrate outstanding gardens in the U.S. and Britain as designed by Jekyll and Lutyens, Church, Jellicoe, Farrand, and others.
