The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
More than Flowers: An Introduction
1: Piety and Protection
	Alhambra: Granada, Spain
	Queen Eleanor’s Garden: Winchester, England
	San Pietro Abbey: Perugia, Italy
	Prieuré Notre-Dame d’Orsan: Maisonnais, France
	Old Palace at Hatfield House: Hertfordshire, England
2: The Measure of Mankind Is Man
	Villa Medici: Fiesole, Italy
	Villa d’Este: Tivoli, Italy
	Sacro Bosco (Bomarzo): Viterbo, Italy
	Villa Lante: Bagnaia, Italy
	Villa Aldobrandini: Frascati, Italy
3: The Brink of Infinity
	Isola Bella: Lake Maggiore, Italy
	Vaux-le-Vicomte: Maincy, France
	Palace of Versailles: Versailles, France
	Château de Chantilly: Chantilly, France
	Het Loo Palace: Apeldoorn, Netherlands
4: A World of Wonders
	L’Orto Botanico: Padua, Italy
	Hortus Botanicus: Leiden, the Netherlands
	Chelsea Physic Garden: London, England
	Bartram’s Garden: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5: Augustan and Arcadian
	Hadrian’s Villa: Tivoli, Italy
	Castle Howard: Yorkshire, England
	Studley Royal: Yorkshire, England
	Rousham: Oxfordshire, England
	Stourhead: Wiltshire, England
6: Place-Making
	Stowe: Buckinghamshire, England
	Petworth: West Sussex, England
	Blenheim: Oxfordshire, England
	Nuneham: Oxfordshire, England
	Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Ermenonville, France
	Hawkstone Park: Shropshire, England
7: Gaiety and “Gloomth”
	Yuanming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness, Old Summer Palace): Beijing, China
	Shizilin Yuan (Lion Grove Garden): Suzhou, China
	Zhuozheng Yuan (Garden of the Humble Administrator): Suzhou, China
	Wangshi Yuan (Master-of-Fishing Nets Garden): Suzhou, China
	Wrest Park: Bedfordshire, England
	Taj Mahal: Agra, India
	Sezincote: Gloucestershire, England
	Pope’s Grotto: Twickenham, England
	Strawberry Hill: Twickenham, England
	Painshill: Surrey, England
8: Three Men, Two Nations, One Passion
	John Whipple House: Ipswich, Massachusetts
	Middleton Place: near Charleston, South Carolina
	Mount Vernon: Mount Vernon, Virginia
	San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel Mission): Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
	Monticello: near Charlottesville, Virginia
	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: London, England
9: Designing for Democracy
	Montgomery Place: Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
	Mount Auburn Cemetery: Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Springside: Poughkeepsie, New York
	Central Park: New York City, New York
	Buffalo Park System: Buffalo, New York
	Biltmore: Asheville, North Carolina
10: Bedding-Out and Getting-On
	National Botanic Gardens of Ireland: Dublin, Ireland
	Cliveden: Buckinghamshire, England
	Princes Street Gardens: Edinburgh, Scotland
	Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens: Annapolis Royal, Canada
11: Searching for Earthly Paradise
	Anne Hathaway’s Cottage and Gardens: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
	Kelmscott Manor: Oxfordshire, England
	Munstead Wood: Surrey, England
	Upton Grey Manor: Hampshire, England
	Royal Horticultural Society Rock Garden at Wisley: Surrey, England
	Lindisfarne (Holy Island): Northumberland, England
12: Lush and Fleeting, Spare and Lasting
	Giverny: Giverny, France
	Saihō-ji (Kokederaor Moss Temple): Kyoto, Japan
	Ryōan-ji: Kyoto, Japan
	Katsura Imperial Villa: Kyoto, Japan
	Tōfuku-ji: Kyoto, Japan
13: Bringing Home “Abroad”
	Powerscourt: County Wicklow, Ireland
	Sutton Courtenay Manor: Oxfordshire, England
	Stan Hywet: Akron, Ohio
	Kykuit: Pocantico Hills, New York
	Balboa Park: San Diego, California
	Filoli: Woodside, California
	Old Westbury Gardens: Old Westbury, New York
	Iford Manor: Wiltshire, England
14: The Poppies Grow
	Hidcote: Gloucestershire, England
	Dumbarton Oaks: Washington D.C.
	Sissinghurst: Kent, England
	Ladew Topiary Gardens: Monkton, Maryland
	Great Dixter: East Sussex, England
15: Less Is More
	Naumkeag: Stockbridge, Massachusetts
	Flamengo Parkand Copacabana Beach: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Dewey Donnell Ranch (El Novillero): Sonoma, California
	Miller House: Columbus, Indiana
	Paley Park: New York City, New York
	Parc André Citroën: Paris, France
16: This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home
	Gravetye Manor: Sussex, England
	Columbus Park: Chicago, Illinois
	Sea Ranch: Sonoma County, California
	High Line: New York City, New York
	Highgrove: Gloucestershire, England
	Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden: Bronx, New York
17: Reverence for the Archetype
	Lurie Garden: Chicago, Illinois
	National September 11 Memorial: New York City, New York
	Storm King Art Center: Mountainville, New York
	Toronto Music Garden: Toronto, Canada
	Shakespeare Gardenat Vassar College: Poughkeepsie, New York
	Garden of Cosmic Speculation: Dumfries, Scotland
	Shute: Wiltshire, England
	Boughton House: Northamptonshire, England
A Noble Task: Postscript
Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Photo and Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author