From the gardens of the Palace of Versailles to Beatrix Potter's
garden in the Lake District, from Monet's garden in France to the Tivoli
Gardens in Rome, from the Japanese garden in Portland, Oregon, to city
gardens in Tokyo, this book is a wide-ranging celebration of all types
of gardens around the globe.
Including formal French gardens and English landscape gardens; famous
botanical gardens and little-known curiosities; Iranian and Persian
gardens; grand, country-house gardens and inner-city gardens; Zen
gardens, strolling Japanese gardens and Chinese gardens; medicinal
gardens and one poison garden; knot gardens and Roman gardens, Amazing
Gardens of the World explores a huge variety of the approaches and uses
of gardening around the world over millennia. In telling the stories of
these places, the book touches on the lives of the people who worked in
them, designed them, and owned them--people such as Prince Charles,
Capability Brown, Gertrude Jekyll, Edith Wharton, and Agatha Christie.
Amazing Gardens of the World not only champions the splendor of the
world's most magnificent gardens but also reveals many fascinating
stories about the history of these places and the people who created
them.