{"product_id":"lives-of-the-great-gardeners-1","title":"Lives of the Great Gardeners","description":"Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been  aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international  practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such as sculpture or  painting; some have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in  common, no matter where or when they were born, is the ability to take an idea and  develop it in a new manner relevant to their times.       The book contains four sections. `Gardens of Ideas' moves from the politically  allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such as William Kent, to  Charles Jencks's Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century cosmography. `Gardens of  Straight Lines' explores the lives of the great formalist gardeners, from Le Notre at  Versailles to the rational English minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher  Bradley-Hole. `Gardens of Curves' begins with that great exponent of the English  landscape garden, `Capability' Brown, and leads to the extraordinary Brazilian designer  Roberto Burle Marx. Finally, `Gardens of Plantsmanship' moves from the father of  naturalistic planting, William Robinson, to the sweeping prairies of New York's  favourite Dutch designer, Piet Oudolf. With an outstanding text by the award-winning  gardens writer Stephen Anderton, this book will appeal to garden lovers everywhere.","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40812735365205,"sku":"9780500518564N","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/6196ff7e-0ac1-440f-81db-c1d66bd260ea.jpg?v=1712750539","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/lives-of-the-great-gardeners-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}