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The New English garden
The author \"discusses twenty-five significant English gardens made or remade over the past decade\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Place-making : the art of Capability Brown
'This book by John Phibbs adds to the corpus of authoritative texts published by Historic England. [...] The book is supported by an extensive 45-page glossary - useful for explaining the main text or as a stand-alone quick reference. [...] Whilst the book is about one of our most influential landscape designers, it is also relevant to those who appreciate and care for historic buildings.' Michael F. Garber, Fenland & Wash regional group.
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America's romance with the English garden
\"The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories--in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It's also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.\"--Publisher's website.
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Octopus's garden
A picture book rendering of the classic Beatles song, including a CD recording and audio reading by the song's writer.
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The Woody Plants And Landscape Values Of The Hıstorıcal Publıc Garden Of In And The Town Of Çanakkale
Urban open and green areas, especially where old mature odunsu reached the age groves and parks, landscape architecture holds an important place in the studies to be made regarding. Important regional and local landscape character at the scale of the structure, reflecting the region's ecology is compatible with the protection of areas of resistant vegetation is important in terms of sustainability. In the historical process of this kind survived until the present day landscape of the area of the woody vegetation species which occur in the uncovering of the survey area habitat conditions, and will contribute to the science of determining the performance of these species. For this purpose, the most important of The Historical Public Garden the town of Çanakkale open and green woody vegetation from the area of the region and the historical development of the city, the region and the current ecological characteristics of vegetation has been identified. 2016-2017 the year of observation and the identification perennial woody plant species existing in the four seasons, height, diameter, crown widths, development, and health conditions, good growing harmonious to the landscape and vegetation of the region have been revealed. A total of 1,200 plants have been identified as trees and shrubs in the historic gardens. Existing vegetation, deciduous broad-leaved trees, the majority of (576 ). Of them, 57.1% tall trees (329), 25.2% in trees of short stature (145) and 17.7% medium-stature trees (102) comprises. Historic garden within a well developed, tall trees, there are a total of 28 units: Acer negundo, Gleditsia triacanthos, Maclura pomifera, Platanus orientalis, Ulmus minor, Populus x canadensis, Populus x canescens, Populus tremula, Cornus sanguinea, Myrtus communis, Phillyrea latifolia, Cedrus libani, Cupressus sempervirens, Pinus brutia. For the purpose of special historic public garden protection and improvement proposals have been introduced.
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Across the Open Field
Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life.\"So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. What he found, in abundance, was the serendipity of a human environment built over time to respond to the land's own character and to the people who lived and worked there. For Olin, the English countryside was a palimpsest of the most eloquent and moving sort, yet whose manifestation was of ordinary buildings meant to shelter their inhabitants and further their work.With evocative language and exquisite line drawings, the author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names, and the recent histories of train lines and auto routes. Comparing the growth of building in the English countryside, Olin draws some sobering conclusions about our modern lifestyle and its increasing separation from the landscape.As much a plea for saving the modern American landscape as it is a passionate exploration of what makes the English landscape so characteristically English, Across the Open Field is \"an affectionate ramble through real places of lasting worth.
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