Jardines-Botánica

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 (...)

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 (...)

El cultivo de bonsáis ha trascendido las fronteras de Japón, que lo ha exportado a todo el mundo como un arte milenario de jardinería unido a una filosofía de vida: cultivar un bonsái implica paciencia, educar la mirada hacia la belleza y entender el micromundo de un árbol como una metáfora de (...)

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 (...)

Frondosas, coníferas, palmeras. Árboles de todo el mundo en un compendio interdisciplinar que abarca aspectos científicos, ecológicos y simbólicos, con ilustraciones de estilo naturalista