Showcases examples of garden design by a variety of designers, such as Charles Jencks, Martha Schwartz, the Popes at Hadspen House and others.
The Aim of this Book is to present to gardeners everywhere outstanding examples of the work of contemporary garden designers from all over the world - describing and illustrating a wide variety of innovative and exciting ideas which point the way towards the garden styles of the coming century. Anita Pereire has chosen over fifty gardens from five continents to illustrate the enormous diversity and daring of the designers who are exploring and transforming the traditional concept of a garden. Each chapter looks at variations on a theme - the organic garden, the grass garden, the water garden, the sculpture garden - or at the designs of those who are working within a particular tradition - the plant-lovers, the restorers and recreators of classic gardens, or the followers of the Japanese ideal of purity and simplicity. There are gardens on the grand scale, such as Charles Jencks' cosmologically-inspired earthworks in the Scottish Borders or Keir Davidson's two-hundred-acre wonderland of water, rock and trees at Quaker Hill in New York State; but there are also intimate patio and town gardens and the urban grottoes of Belinda Eade. There are gardens that set out to astonish or even to affront, such as Ian Hamilton Finlay's cryptic Little Sparta or the landscapes populated by Sally Matthews' startlingly primeval sculptures of wild beasts; but there are also gardens, such as Abbaye d'Orsan in France or the newly restored Heligan in Cornwall, which reaffirm familiar values. -- amazon.com
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