The product of extended visits to properties associated with Wright, and extensive interviews with surviving colleagues and students, this is the first book in full colour to focus on Wright's four most famous residential landscapes - his first home and studio at Oak Park, Illinois; his magnificent [...]
This book explores the links between the paintings and gardens of the Impressionists and their influence on gardens today, using 20 black and white archive photographs and the paintings of Monet, Renoir and Pissarro. Twenty colour planting plans show how to adapt their ideas for gardens.[...]
The product of extended visits to properties associated with Wright, and extensive interviews with surviving colleagues and students, this is the first book in full colour to focus on Wright's four most famous residential landscapes - his first home and studio at Oak Park, Illinois; his magnificent [...]
""Gardening was something I learned in my youth. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers"" - Claude Monet Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) created a magnificent five-acre garden that he considered to be his greatest artistic achievement. It was restored in 1980 and is now the most vi[...]
The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizing their large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labour. Vertical gardening guarantees a better outcome from the day the trowel hits the soil - by shrinking the amount of "floor" s[...]