The Plants That Shaped Our Gardens (Obee) - Hardcover

Stuart, D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674007905 ISBN 13: 9780674007901

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2002

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Book by Stuart David

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Filled with exciting plates reproducing images from centuries of botanical and horticultural literature"The Plants that Shaped Our Gardens" offers the reader an adventure story of a different type. Here David Stuart gives us the history of how plants we now consider essential parts of our gardens were brought from distant and exotic locales"The Plants that Shaped Our Gardens" should be of interest to any gardener who might well wonder where the beautiful hydrangea shrub originated. Now you can read the adventures of Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold and be grateful for his pioneering spirit.--Joan Richards "Chicago Botanic Garden "

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Inspiration, happy accidents, and outright obsessions have all had their way with gardens--but nothing has done more to shape the modern garden than plants themselves. In a story that ranges from continent to continent and spans four centuries, botanist and gardener David Stuart reveals how the garden as we know it was created not by garden designers but by ordinary gardeners responding to exotic and novel plants that suggested new spaces, places, and means of display. The history begins with two earth-changing events--the establishment of colonies in the Americas and the spread of the Turkish empire. Both brought the first astonishing wave of flowering exotics to gardens across Europe. Stuart relates how, over the following centuries, the influx of new plants inspired a frenzy of hybridization (at first by a new breed of gardener, the "florist," later by nurserymen), which in turn led to such features as the familiar herbaceous border, flower bed, and rose garden, as well as the now little-known rockery, shrubbery, and "wilderness." From the Dutch tulip mania, the eighteenth-century European passion for "American gardens," and on to the rhododendron craze of the nineteenth century, Stuart's book traces the shape of the modern garden as it changed with the fashion, returning at last to classic, cottage garden varieties long neglected in favor of the foreign and new. In conclusion, Stuart looks at plant prospecting today--now that the collecting of plants may prove essential to protecting botanical diversity and preserving plant species rapidly disappearing from the wild.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0674007905
• ISBN 13: 9780674007901
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208