In Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World
Chosen and described by celebrated garden designer Penelope Hobhouse
Features stunning photographs by distinguished garden photographers including Jerry Harpur, Andrew Lawson, Clive Nichols
Published in association with an exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Great Gardens of the World is a survey of some of the greatest gardens of the world, presented through magnificent photographic images and the descriptions of legendary garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse. Here is shown the oases of the Middle East, the gardens of Chinese scholars, Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists, French baroque gardens, the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers. Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers, among them Roberto Burle Marx, Fernando Caruncho, Dan Kiley, John Brookes and James van Sweden.
Penelope Hobhouse is internationally renowned as a gardener, writer and garden designer. The author of many classic works including Colour in your Garden, Garden Style, Penelope Hobhouse On Gardening , and Penelope Hobhouse’s Garden Designs (all published by Frances Lincoln), and Plants in Garden History, The Story of Gardening and Gardens of Persia
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@madgestar Snowing steadily, roofs and gardens white. I'm on dihydrocodeine+tramadol and there are days when pain is unbearable, sympathise – by paulstpancras (paulstpancras)
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