Strong, Roy.

Small Period Gardens: A Practical Guide to Design and Planting.

London, Conran Octopus, 1992. 24.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 160 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following essays: A Late Medieval Garden 1450-1500 / A Northern Renaissance Garden 1580-1630 / A French Classical Garden 1650-1700 / A Georgian Town Garden 1730-1780 / A New World Flower Garden 1760-1800 / A Nineteenth-Century Garden of the Deep South 1820-1890 / A Traditional Scottish Potager 1880-1910 / The Revival of the Formal Garden 1890-1920 / A Jekyllesque Garden 1890-1930 / A Post-War Suburban Garden 1920-1940 etc.

″Strong, a British garden historian, is author of A Small Garden Designer’s Handbook (Little, Brown, 1989) and similar titles. Here he provides a quick history of landscape design in Europe and the United States from the late Middle Ages to the post-World War II period. For each era he describes important gardens that reflected the prevailing fashion, illustrated with contemporary depictions and photographs of modern reconstructions. He explains how to incorporate design elements from each period in small urban or suburban settings. Garden plans suggest appropriate plants, garden structures, pavings, etc., for a wide variety of formal and informal designs, including several from American history. A similar book is Elizabeth Banks’s Creating Period Gardens (Preservation Pr., 1991), but Strong’s garden plans make his the preferable title for general gardening collections.” (Library Journal)

• Keywords: Cultural history · European History · Garden · Garden Architecture · Garden Collection – Ann Geneva · Garden Design – Collection · Garden Design – Rare · Garden history · Library & Collection Building
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781850293651
• Inventory Number: 72406AB