The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens by Chisholm, Linda A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Dedication Preface More Than Flowers: An Introduction 1 Piety and Protection

Alhambra Queen Eleanor’s Garden San Pietro Abbey Prieuré Notre-Dame d’Orsan Old Palace at Hatfield House

2 The Measure of Mankind Is Man

Villa Medici Villa d’Este Sacro Bosco (Bomarzo) Villa Lante Villa Aldobrandini

3 The Brink of Infinity

Isola Bella Vaux-le-Vicomte Palace of Versailles Château de Chantilly Het Loo Palace

4 A World of Wonders

L’Orto Botanico Hortus Botanicus Chelsea Physic Garden Bartram’s Garden

5 Augustan and Arcadian

Hadrian’s Villa Castle Howard Studley Royal Rousham Stourhead

6 Place-Making

Stowe Petworth Blenheim Nuneham Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau Hawkstone Park

7 Gaiety and “Gloomth”

Yuanming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness, Old Summer Palace) Shizilin Yuan (Lion Grove Garden) Zhuozheng Yuan (Garden of the Humble Administrator) Wangshi Yuan (Master-of-Fishing Nets Garden) Wrest Park Taj Mahal Sezincote Pope’s Grotto Strawberry Hill Painshill

8 Three Men, Two Nations, One Passion

John Whipple House Middleton Place Mount Vernon San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel Mission) Monticello Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

9 Designing for Democracy

Montgomery Place Mount Auburn Cemetery Springside Central Park Buffalo Park System Biltmore

10 Bedding-Out and Getting-On

National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Cliveden Princes Street Gardens Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens

11 Searching for Earthly Paradise

Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Garden Kelmscott Manor Munstead Wood Upton Grey Manor Royal Horticultural Society Rock Garden at Wisley Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

12 Lush and Fleeting Spare and Lasting

Giverny Saihō-ji (Kokedera or Moss Temple) Ryōan-ji Katsura Imperial Villa Tōfuku-ji

13 Bringing Home “Abroad”

Powerscourt Sutton Courtenay Manor Stan Hywet Kykuit Balboa Park Filoli Old Westbury Gardens Iford Manor

14 The Poppies Grow

Hidcote Dumbarton Oaks Sissinghurst Ladew Topiary Gardens Great Dixter

15 Less Is More

Naumkeag Flamengo Park and Copacabana Beach Dewey Donnell Ranch (El Novillero) Miller House Paley Park Parc André Citroën

16 This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home

Gravetye Manor Columbus Park Sea Ranch High Line Highgrove Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden

17 Reverence for the Archetype

Lurie Garden National September 11 Memorial Storm King Art Center Toronto Music Garden Shakespeare Garden at Vassar College Garden of Cosmic Speculation Shute, Boughton House

Postscript: A Noble Task Sources and Further Reading Acknowledgments and Permissions Photo and Illustration Credits Index About the Author Copyright