Jardines-Botánica

Entre las plantas vivas del Real Jardín Botánico (Madrid) destacan por su delicadeza los pequeños árboles bonsái, plantas cultivadas en bandejas de magnífico porte y mágico aspecto. En este libro el RJB recoge las fotografías de una buena parte de estos bonsáis. Cuidados y seleccionados por su (...)

"Tras las huellas de Russell Page" se lee igualmente como un tratado de jardinería que como una biografía novelada en torno a la carrera de un hombre obsesionado por las plantas, la estética y la historia crítica de los estilos. Esta experiencia singular, única, la creación del jardín, implica un (...)

La memoria secreta de las hojas no es solo un libro, es el fascinante debut de una mujer consagrada a la ciencia, el retrato conmovedor de una larga amistad y una exposición sorprendente del mundo de las plantas que cambiará radicalmente nuestra forma de contemplar la naturaleza.En su ópera prima, (...)

Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical (...)

This lavish book highlights a selection of the wonderful illustrations held in the archive of The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Each illustration included in the book is accompanied by a plant profile, stating where the plant was found in the wild and explaining something of (...)

Gardening is trending, and today s gardeners are embracing ecologically sound principles conserving water; avoiding invasives; reducing chemicals; supporting wildlife; and reviving time-tested, organic practices. Featuring sites across a variety of climates and conditions, this book includes (...)

Esta nueva edición actualizada y revisada del clásico de Phaidon, es un quién es quién de los mejores jardineros de la historia abarcando todos los estilos y continentes. Desde el primer jardín religioso hasta el celestial jardín de Dan Pearson en Tokachi en Japón, cada entrada muestra el trabajo (...)

The instantly recognizable English cottage garden encapsulates that delightful mix of scented climbers, drifts of flowers inter-mingled with herbs and vegetables, fruit trees and traditional features. Much loved and copied throughout the world, it is uniquely individual. With no strict rules to (...)

Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur (...)

The Wirtz Gardens Part III is the third in a series of books on the gardens of landscape architect practice Wirtz International Landscape Architects. It contains 30 gardens, a mixture of private, public and corporate projects in Belgium, Japan, France and England. Private projects in the USA and (...)