Encyclopedia of Gardens

History and Design
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-1-57958-173-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 1590 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 5193 g

Produced under the auspices of the Chicago Botanic Garden, this major international reference work contains more than 600 entries on a wide range of topics. Coverage includes important people in the history of gardening and landscaping throughout the ages; specific sites, both historical and existing; surveys of types and styles of gardens; gardening movements; traditions of specific geographic regions; and materials and techniques. Extensive illustration makes use of photographs (both color and black-and white) as well as dozens of line drawings detailing plans, techniques, and tools. Comprehensive in scope, this will be an indispensable reference for teachers and students of garden history, landscape architecture, and archaeology, as well as for professional and amateur gardeners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shoemaker, Candice A.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Gartenbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Entries include: African-American Gardening; Animals in Gardens; Bed and Bedding System; Botanical Illustration; Caribbean Islands and West Indies; Children and Gardening; Container Gardening; Darwin, Charles; Design Fundamentals; Education: Landscape Architecture; Film, Garden in; Formal Garden Style; Fruit Garden; Greenhouse; Herb Garden; Herbs: Medicinal; Islamic Gardens; Jefferson, Thomas; Landscape Garden Style; Literature, Garden in; Medieval Garden Style; Music in the Garden; Neoclassicism; Pathways and Paving; Perennials; Politics of Gardening; Religion, Garden in; Roman Gardens; Sculpture in the Garden; Shrubbery; Symbolism in Eastern Gardens; Taj Mahal; Tools, Garden; Tourism and Gardens; Trees; Women as Gardeners; Zoological Garden; and many more.

Über Autor(innen)

Candice A. Shoemaker is the former director of the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden. She is currently an Associate Professor of Horticulture at Kansas State University. Her current research involves Human Issues in Horticulture.