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      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2017

        The factory in a garden

        A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age

        by Helena Chance, Christopher Breward

        When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        February 2017

        The factory in a garden

        A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age

        by Helena Chance, Christopher Breward

        When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.

      • Trusted Partner
        Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
        February 2017

        The factory in a garden

        A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age

        by Helena Chance. Series edited by Christopher Breward

        When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

        Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

        by Sue Edney

        EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through eleven exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours and actions. In these entertaining essays, human and vegetal agency is interpreted through ecocritical and ecoGothic investigation of uncanny manifestations in gardens - hauntings, psychic encounters, monstrous hybrids, fairies and ghosts - with plants, greenhouses, granges, mansions, lakes, lawns, flowerbeds and trees as agents and sites of uncanny developments. The collection represents the forefront of ecoGothic critical debate and will be welcomed by specialists in environmental humanities at every level, as a timely, innovative inclusion in ecoGothic studies.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

        Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

        by Sue Edney

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

        Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

        by Sue Edney

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2024

        EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century

        Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers

        by Sue Edney

        EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through eleven exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours and actions. In these entertaining essays, human and vegetal agency is interpreted through ecocritical and ecoGothic investigation of uncanny manifestations in gardens - hauntings, psychic encounters, monstrous hybrids, fairies and ghosts - with plants, greenhouses, granges, mansions, lakes, lawns, flowerbeds and trees as agents and sites of uncanny developments. The collection represents the forefront of ecoGothic critical debate and will be welcomed by specialists in environmental humanities at every level, as a timely, innovative inclusion in ecoGothic studies.

      • Gardening

        Gardening Across the Pond

        Anglo-American Exchanges, from the Settlers in Virginia to Prairie Gardening

        by Richard Bisgrove (author)

        For four hundred years there has been a special relationship between Britain and what is now the United States of America in many aspects of life, not least in gardening.  From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back exciting new plants for English gardens to the twenty-first-century English infatuation with ‘prairie gardening’, ideas and plants have been crossing and re-crossing the Atlantic. In Gardening Across the Pond Richard Bisgrove investigates this interchange. He begins with the Tradescants plant-hunting in seventeenth-century Virginia and moves on to the influence of the eighteenth-century English landscape garden on Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, the Quaker connection of John Bartram in Philadelphia and Peter Collinson in London – bringing American plants to furnish those gardens. In the nineteenth century Anglophile Americans plundered Europe as a whole in their search for culture, including horticulture, while in the twentieth century the balance of innovation moved to the US, with Thomas Church’s ‘room outside’ and James van Sweden’s ‘bold romantic garden’. In the twenty-first century, with transatlantic travel commonplace, the ebb and flow continues unabated, with prairie landscapes in the 2012 London Olympic Park and Gertrude Jekyll gardens in the US.  Gardening across the Pond explores these and many other transatlantic influences and attempts to answer that thorny question – is the English cottage garden an American invention?

      • History of Art / Art & Design Styles

        Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement

        Reality and Imagination

        by Judith Tankard (author)

        First published by Abrams in 2004.  This Pimpernel Classic edition is revised by the author and completely re-designed, with new photography. The Arts and Crafts Movement gave gardens new definition as a harmonious component of the house.  They were never an end in themselves, but were intertwined with the house like ivy growing on a wall, blurring the distinctions between indoors and outdoors.  Their simple structuring and romantic, medieval-inspired imagery derived from old English manor house gardens.  Nothing about them was ostentatious, contrived or “foreign.”  Hand-built stone walls, summerhouses, sundials, and other traditional ornament, hedged enclosures, colourful flower borders, and whimsical topiaried trees made for memorable storybook gardens.  In this book, Arts and Crafts gardens are presented through the eyes of artists and the words of designers and critics, drawing on the most influential publications of the era, including: Country Life magazine, Gardens for Small Country Houses, and The Art and Craft of Garden-Making.  The thread of Gertrude Jekyll runs through most of the chapters of this book due to her collaboration with many Arts and Crafts architects, her finely honed planting skills, and incomparable writings.

      • Gardening

        Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood

        by Martin Wood (author), Judith Tankard (author)

        First published in the UK by Sutton Publishing in 1996 (and by Timber Press in the US), this Pimpernel Classic edition has been redesigned and includes new photography. Gertrude Jekyll was probably the most influential garden designer of the early twentieth century. In this classic work Judith Tankard and Martin Wood explore her life and work at the home she created for herself at Munstead Wood in Surrey. Here she exercised her knowledge of architecture and local building skills, and her passion for form, grouping and colour was given full scope in the garden which she designed and worked from scratch.  Taking as a basis Gertrude Jekyll’s own photographs, scrapbooks and notebooks, and the recollections of contemporaries from Edith Wharton and Vita Sackville-West to William Robinson and Henry Francis Du Pont, the authors describe not only the building and development of the house and garden but also Jekyll’s skills both in the arts and as a businesswoman, and her collaborations with architects – pre-eminently Edwin Lutyens, but also Oliver Hill and M.H. Baillie Scott, among many others. This revised edition includes many photographs that have never previously been published.

      • Gardening

        Herterton House And a New Country Garden

        by Frank Lawley (author), Val Corbett (photographer)

        Frank and Marjorie Lawley have spent almost 40 years at Herterton House, a 16th century farmhouse on the Wallington Estate, near Cambo (birthplace of Capability Brown) in Northumberland. When they leased Herterton from the National Trust in 1976, the Lawleys took on a series of derelict farm buildings. This highly original and personal book describes in detail how, with patience and passion, they restored Herterton House and created an exquisite and unique garden. As well as discussing the practicalities involved, it also describes the influences and the lifetime of thinking behind their achievement. Within its mere acre, the garden at Herterton House provides more visual interest and more interesting plants (plants you can also buy from its small nursery) than many gardens twenty times its size. It also stimulates visitors to think about what plants to use and how to use them, about the history of English gardens, about the relation of the past to the present and about the relation of a garden to the landscape around it. This stunning book records and celebrates Frank and Marjorie's achievement over four decades at Herterton House. With photographs by Val Corbett and an introduction by Charles Quest-Ritson.

      • Gardening

        Paradise and Plenty

        A Rothschild Family Garden

        by Mary Keen (author), Tom Hatton (photographer)

        ‘If you are a home gardener looking for inspiration, you will find it here. If you are a garden historian searching out old traditions, read on. If you are a professional hoping to learn new tricks, you have come to the right place. Or if you are an armchair gardener looking to escape to a magical realm behind high garden walls, where no one but you will be invited, this book is for you.’ - Gregory Long, President, New York Botanical Garden The productive garden at Lord Rothschild’s private house, Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, is legendary in the garden world for the excellence of the gardening and as a haven for traditional techniques that might otherwise be lost. Under the leadership of the renowned head gardener, Sue Dickinson, this garden works on a scale that is now rare, producing, year-round, all the fruit, vegetables and flowers for a country house where entertaining still happens on a grand scale and where everything is done to the highest standards. Paradise and Plenty opens a window on a garden that has, until now, been kept intensely private, and on a world beyond most gardeners’ dreams. But in this book everything shown is useful as well as beautiful. Gregory Long points out in his introduction that as more and more people turn to growing their own, books are needed that show the techniques of dedicated cultivation, as well as the results. Many of the techniques used at Eythrope are old and tried, but have fallen out of use almost everywhere else. Others have been adopted more recently, as careful trials have proved their worth. If you want techniques for preparing soil, growing herbs, pruning apple trees, training roses, planting bulbs in pots or propagating many different plants, or which are the best tried and tested tomatoes, snowdrops or chrysanthemums to plant, you’ll find out here. In the words of the author herself, ‘This book has to be how as well as wow.’

      • Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

        Topiary, Knots and Parterres

        by Caroline Foley (author)

        Caroline Foley - with the aid of quotations from diarists, writers, wits, garden designers, gardeners and garden owners - traces the story of topiary, knots and parterres. After a brief survey of Roman topiary, she moves on through the formal parterres of Renaissance Italy and the more elaborate broderies of the royal French gardens (copied in palace gardens throughout Europe), the complicated conceits of the Tudors and the geometry of the Dutch school. She takes a wry look at the eighteenth century, when many fine formal gardens were scrapped in favour of the English landscape school, which, in fact, was no less artificial. In the nineteenth century there was a revival of parterres filled with tender bedding plants. Green architecture returned with the Arts and Crafts movement, became unfashionable in the mid-twentieth century and has had a revival in the last decade or so in a more abstract and sculptural form, inspired somewhat by Japanese 'cloud' topiary. Widening the story beyond the topiary of Europe and the west, she includes chapters on the ancient art of Japanese topiry and on labyrinths and mazes from Minoa. The second half of the book brings us up to date, taking a look at topiary as used by designers such as Jacques Wirtz, Piet Oudolf, Arne Maynard, Tom Stuart-Smith, Fernando Caruncho, as well as talented private garden owners. Finally there is a projection into the future, with the potential for topiary in industrial settings and amenity horticulture and its influence on land art. This highly visual subject is illustrated throughout with paintings, drawings and cartoons. As we move into modern times, photographs take over.

      • Gardening

        Wonderland

        Adventures in the Garden

        by Isabel Bannerman (author), Julian Bannerman (author)

        Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been described as "mavericks in the grand manner, touched by genius" (Min Hogg, World of Interiors)and "the Bonnie and Clyde of garden design" (Ruth Guilding, The Bible of British Taste).  Their approach to design, whie rooted in history and the classical tradition, is fresh, eclectic and surprising. They designed the British 9/11 Memorial Garden in New York and have also designed gardens for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove and the Castle of Mey, Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle in Sussex and John Paul Getty II at Wormsley in Buckhamshire. The garden they made for themselves at Hanham Court near Bath was acclaimed by Gardens Illustrated as the top garden of 2009, ahead of Sissinghurst. When they moved from Hanham it was to the fairytale castle of Trematon overlooking Plymouth Sound, where they have created yet another magical garden. Wonderland: Adventures in the Garden celebrates the imaginative and practical process of designing, making and planting all of these gardens, and many more.

      • Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

        You Should Have Been Here Last Week

        Selected Writings

        by Tim Richardson (author)

        An amusing and thought-provoking compendium of stories, anecdotes, writings and reflections from this acute, knowledgeable and irreverent commentator. A career spent travelling the world looking at gardens, and meeting their sometimes eccentric custodians has resulted in a fund of unlikely experiences and encounters. There was, for example, that alligator-infested American garden...or the time our hero set up his tent in the woods at Great Dixter in a thunderstorm, only to find he was not where he thought he was. On a more serious note, the book contains some of Tim Richardson's most influential and provocative columns as well as articles and essays on specific gardens, places and landscape themes.

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