British gardens : history, philosophy and design /
Tom Turner
- Oxon : Routledge : 2013.
- x, 456 p.
Prehistoric landscape and gardening, 3500 BCE-43 CE -- Romano-British gardens & landscapes: 43-1066 -- Medieval gardens & landscapes: 1066-1485 -- Renaissance gardens & landscapes: 1485-1660 -- Baroque gardens & landscapes: 1660-1750 -- Neoclassical gardens & landscapes: 1730-1800 -- Romantic gardens & landscapes: 1794-1880 -- Arts and crafts gardens & landscapes: 1880-1970 -- Abstract modern gardens: 1925-80 -- Post-abstract and sustainable gardens: post-1980 -- Appendix I. Garden and landscape design : Asia, Europe and the British Isles -- Appendix II. Names for styles and periods -- Appendix III. Wollaton Hall, Gardens and Deer Park, Nottingham, England / Michael Simonsen.
"Garden designbegan in West Asia and spread throughout Europe. This book tells how, in the British Isles, it flourished to an extraordinary degree ..."