Icons of Garden Design

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`Gardening` declared the London Times recently `is the new sex` and certainly interest in horticulture has never been more fevered. The latest in Prestel`s highly successful Icons series looks at the masterpieces of garden design and how their influence has affected our understanding of this ancient and complex art.

Through 77 iconic gardens, illustrated with over 300 colour images, this book traces the development of garden design worldwide from medieval gardens to the contemporary creations of twenty-first-century designers. As well as the classic gardens of Le Notre and `Capability` Brown - Blenheim, Versailles, Stowe, Vaux-le-Vicomte - the book includes gardens of the East - Daisen-in and Katsura Rikyu in Japan, the `New` Summer Palace Gardens in Beijing - and Indian, Finnish, Russian, Swedish, Polish, American and Sri Lankan gardens among many others.

Written by an international team of garden historians, the texts on each garden discuss their development and influences, and the book includes a glossary and bibliographical references for further reading. A wide-ranging Introduction by Caroline Holmes explores the pre-history of gardening and sets the contribution of each icon in its broader context. The result is a fascinating and informative contribution to the past and future history of garden design.