On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany, and Cultivation Travel including two new homes finished

including two new homes finished in 2017

the book highlights the centuries-old connections between the distinct design cultures

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Like no other objects

On the Necessity of Gardening: An ABC of Art, Botany, and Cultivation Travel including two new homes finishedOn the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers from Capability Brown to Derek Jarman have each described, depicted and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art the garden was a reflection of paradise, a place of harmony and fertility, shielded from worldly problems. By the 18th century this conception had shifted: the garden had become