English Gardens of the Twentieth Century: From the ...

For over a century, Country Life magazine has been influential in the world of garden design. Since 1897, its superbly illustrated essays on houses and gardens sought to inform and educate taste. Drawing from the unrivaled photographic archives of Country Life, this magnificent volume charts the challenges, changes, and surprises of English garden design throughout the last century. The story begins with Arts and Crafts gardens, typified by herbaceous borders and modern planting, and it continues with the Edwardian debate between formality and wild gardening, inter-war grandeur, postwar practicality, and pioneering artists' gardens. Beautifully illustrated with 200 color and duotone photographs, this is an illuminating survey of an outstanding century of British garden-making. Garden historian Tim Richardson, formerly the gardens editor of Country Life and landscape editor of Wallpaper, is the founding editor of the award-winning gardens magazine, New Eden. He is also the author of the highly praised book, Sweets: A History of Temptation.