Jardines-Botánica

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Discover Rachel Ashwell's floral inspirations and the unique touch she brings to interiors in her first book dedicated to flowers, a deeply-held passion come to life. Flowers and floral decoration are at the core of Rachel Ashwell's world and her designs. From her showcase rose garden in (...)

Los jardines renacentistas aquellos vergeles de las villas florentinas de los Medicis, que personajes como Cosme el Viejo o Lorenzo el Magnífico mandaron construir en lugares de ensueño como Fiesole, Careggi, Poggio, Castello o Boboli , son los protagonistas de este original ensayo de María del (...)

Olvídese de los apacibles y cuidados jardines del pasado: los jardines de hoy están pasando por una revolución en gusto y estética. Este es el primer libro que analiza en profundidad la nueva tendencia de dejar que los jardines se desarrollen naturalmente salvajes reflejando el giro mundial hacia (...)

Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), el padre de la botánica moderna, da nombre a una llamativa flor y a su color correspondiente, el fucsia. En 1543 combinó sus excepcionales conocimientos de botánica con revolucionarias investigaciones medicas en el The New Herbal, un catálogo de medio millar de plantas y (...)