The Victorian Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Victorian Garden write by Caroline Ikin. This book was released on 2012-07-24. The Victorian Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gardening became a popular pastime in Victorian Britain with the rise of suburban gardens and a passion for the outdoors. New plant introductions from abroad brought a greater variety of plants, while improvements in technology made gardening more accessible. Gardening books and magazines spread the appeal and debate raged over the merits of colour and order versus wild and natural. The large and impressive gardens of country houses were emulated in suburban settings as the appeal of gardens and gardening spread to the masses, while the creation of public parks introduced green spaces to grey cities. As with architecture, Victorian gardens underwent a 'battle of the styles', and an exploration of the period reveals contrasting fashions for garish bedding, ornate Italian terracing, naturalistic planting, cool ferneries, colourful parterres, tranquil Japanese water features, and the occasional eccentric embellishment. The characters involved include such Victorian luminaries as John Loudon, Joseph Paxton and Charles Darwin, alongside the garden designers William Nesfield, Charles Barry and William Robinson, plant hunters Joseph Hooker, Robert Fortune and William Lobb, and the influential women Marianne North, Alicia Amherst and Jane Loudon. The pace of change makes the Victorian era of gardens an exciting time of exotic new plants, fiercely competitive head gardeners, impressive glasshouse engineering, strong personalities and contrasting ideals.
Victorian Cottage Gardens
Victorian Cottage Gardens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Cottage Gardens write by David Squire. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Victorian Cottage Gardens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Victorian Gardens
Victorian Gardens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Gardens write by Caroline Holmes. This book was released on 2005. Victorian Gardens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This delightful book presents Victorian gardening style and design using beautiful landscapes lavish with carpet beds, topiary, statuary, sundials, marble and stone walkways, as well as classical architectural ruins, fountains, and pools. Highlights include Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight (Queen Victoria's country home), Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, and Down House in Kent (home to Charles Darwin). Gorgeously illustrated with over 200 beautiful color photographs plus illustrations, diagrams, and layouts of restorations and recreations, this book is sure to inspire and give the reader confidence to experiment.
The Victorian Flower Garden
The Victorian Flower Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Victorian Flower Garden write by Jennifer Davies. This book was released on 1991-01. The Victorian Flower Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published to coincide with a BBC2 series starting in October 1991, this is a successor to the author's The Victorian Kitchen Garden and The Victorian Kitchen. It tells the stories behind flowers which Victorians grew and loved, and with the help of retired head gardener Harry Dodson explains how simple and exotic flowers were cultivated and used.
Gardens of Empire
Gardens of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gardens of Empire write by Donal P. McCracken. This book was released on 1997. Gardens of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gardens of Empire is the first book which gives a detailed analysis of the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120 botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras, Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to Malta, Jamaica to Sydney - which flourished in the Victorian British empire. There young British curators faced the hazards of malaria, blackwater fever, occasionally a hostile indigenous population, snakes and dangerous animals, personal penury, and jealous settlers who usually opposed any suggestion of diversification from monoculture or of preserving the natural bush for ecological reasons. This is the story of a lost world - where pith-helmeted botanists tamed jungles and supplied Kew with the flora of the empire.
