Inventing the Garden

Inventing the Garden
Author: Matteo Vercelloni
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1606060473

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The authors trace the evolution of the Western garden from the first plots cultivated for pleasure in the Middle East to today's diverse green spaces that challenge traditional ideas about what constitutes a garden. They examine the changing attitude toward nature--as something to be dominated or embraced, ordered or allowed to range freely, exploited or conserved. Examples of the highly prescribed hortus conclusus or enclosed spaces of the Middle Ages are found in the Italian Renaissance gardens and the symmetries of Versailles and Les Tuileries. After the rise of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century, English gardeners such as William Kent and "Capability" Brown embraced the concept that nature should prevail over man's manipulation of it and created gardens that broke through traditional enclosures. A century later, while the American West witnessed both the conquering spirit of the homesteaders and the first stirrings of the conservation movement, urban parks and gardens were created as oases to which all people had access. The book concludes with a look at contemporary gardens, where efforts to reclaim landscapes and repurpose crumbling infrastructure are taking place within an atmosphere of ecological sensitivity--appreciating the idea that the whole planet is a garden and all who live in it are gardeners.

The Garden of Invention

The Garden of Invention
Author: Jane S. Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101046228

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The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America At no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and genetically modified foods, in particular, have become both pervasive and suspect. A century ago, however, Luther Burbank's blight-resistant potatoes, white blackberries, and plumcots-a plum-apricot hybrid-were celebrated as triumphs in the best tradition of American ingenuity and perseverance. In his experimental grounds in Santa Rosa, California, Burbank bred and cross-bred edible and ornamental plants-for both home gardens and commercial farms-until they were bigger, hardier, more beautiful, and more productive than ever before. A fascinating portrait of an American original, The Garden of Invention is also a colorful and engrossing tale of the intersection of gardening, science and business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression.

Inventing the Garden

Inventing the Garden
Author:
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Total Pages: 275
Release: 2010
Genre: Gardens / Design / History
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Founding Gardeners

Founding Gardeners
Author: Andrea Wulf
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0307390683

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From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before. “Illuminating and engrossing.... The reader relives the first decades of the Republic ... through the words of the statesmen themselves.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.

The Invention of the Western Garden

The Invention of the Western Garden
Author: Matteo Vercelloni
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2010
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: 9781849340397

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Through time, the 'garden' in the Western world has developed as a concept of 'a paradise on earth', and cultures have since worked to create and reconstruct from soil, plants and weather, a paradise. This book explores how the garden has evolved, and gives examples, plans and pictures that show two thousand years of the garden.

From the Garden to the City

From the Garden to the City
Author: John Dyer
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 082548930X

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Believers and unbelievers alike are saturated with technology, yet most give it little if any thought. Consumers buy and upgrade as fast as they can, largely unaware of technology’s subtle yet powerful influence. In a world where technology changes almost daily, many are left to wonder: Should Christians embrace all that is happening? Are there some technologies that we need to avoid? Does the Bible give us any guidance on how to use digital tools and social media?

Kiss My Aster

Kiss My Aster
Author: Amanda Thomsen
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603429867

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Combines illustrations with advice and suggestions for creating a garden tailored to personal specifications, including planting privacy hedges, laying out flower beds, building a patio, and digging a duck pond.

The Garden of Invention

The Garden of Invention
Author: Jane S. Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2009
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781594202094

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A chronicle of the life of the celebrated plant breeder evaluates the ways in which his achievements influenced the agricultural industry in early twentieth-century America, in a history that discusses the formative years of bioengineering and agribusiness as they were directly shaped by Burbank's gardening accomplishments.

Garden Cities of To-Morrow

Garden Cities of To-Morrow
Author: Ebenezer Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1135678073

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Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A peaceful path to reform, "the book", writes F.J. Osborn "holds a unique place in town planning literature, is cited in all planning bibliographies, stands on the shelves of the more important libraries, and is alluded to in most books on planning; yet most of the popular writers on planning do not seem to have read it - or if they have read it, to remember what it says." The book led directly to two experiments in town-founding that by imitation, and imitation of imitation, have had a profound influence on practical urban development throughout the world. The book was responsible for the introduction of the term Garden City in numbers of languages - Cite-Jardin, Gartenstadt, Ciudad-jardin, Tuinstad - and set into motion ideas that have helped transform the scientific and political outlook on town structure and town growth. With urban renewal and the development of suburban communities as features of the contemoprary American scene, Garden cities of To-Morrow becomes "must" reading. In the words of Lewis Mumford: "This is not merely a book for Technicians: above all it is a book for citizens, for the people whose actively expressed needs, desires and interests should guide the planner and administrator at every turn." This book was first published in it's current form in 1965.

The Inward Garden

The Inward Garden
Author: Julie Moir Messervy
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781593730598

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Julie Moir Messervy has written a classic garden book. Deeply literate and beautifully written, The Inward Garden gives the reader a process for designing one's dream garden. Based on garden archtypes: the sea, the cave, the harbor, the promitory, the island, the mountain, and the sky, this book provides a structure for imagining and designing the garden of one's desires. It is illustrated with outstanding garden photographs by the celebrated national geographic photographer Sam Abell.