In this book, the author, garden historian and designer Toby Musgrave breaks the world’s greatest gardens down into garden elements, styles, features, and ornaments, which appeal to experts and amateurs alike.
The book is ideal for anyone keen to engage with the beauty and variety on offer in our green spaces. In his descriptions of classic landscaping treatments such as the allee, the flowery mead, and arboretum, and such movements as Arts and Crafts gardening and New Perennial Planting, Musgrave distills decades of learning and knowledge into succinct, engaging and enlightening entries, giving readers both ideas for their own gardens, and also a long list of public gardens worth visiting around the globe.