Walled Gardens

Author : Anahita Firouz
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316073776
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book In the Walled Gardens written by Anahita Firouz and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the exotic, seductive world of pre-revolutionary Iran, In the Walled Garden tells the nostalgic and moving story of Mahastee and Reza, who loved each other as children but have not seen each other for 20 years. Mahastee, who has become trapped by the privileged society she has grown up in, is struggling to keep her identity in the face of the increasingly empty role she inhabits. Reza has grown up to become a Marxist revolutionary, leading underground meetings and living on the edge. When chance brings the two together again, their encounters are a portrait not only of an ill-fated love, but of two worlds at odds, moving ever closer to a doomed collision.

Author : Jules Hudson
Publisher : National Trust
ISBN 13 : 1911358480
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walled Gardens written by Jules Hudson and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BBC presenter Jules Hudson (Countryfile, Escape to the Country) is passionate about walled gardens. In this book, he looks at walled gardens throughout England and Wales and explores their history, innovative design and cultural heritage. The walled garden was once an essential component of every country house, its shelter providing ideal conditions for growing food, flowers and medicine. This book from the National Trust looks at walled gardens throughout England and Wales and explores their history, innovative design and cultural heritage. Walled gardens are a feature of British gardening history. In the late 18th century, gardens became status symbols, with aristocrats vying to grow ever more exotic fruits – ushering in innovations such as glasshouses and even heated walls. With the First and Second World Wars many of these gardens fell into disrepair, but renovated ones feature at many key National Trust properties and remain a source of pride and fascination today.

Author : Annabel Davis-Goff
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781906011024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walled Gardens written by Annabel Davis-Goff and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walled Gardens is a brilliant portrait of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, struggling through the post-war depression aided by drink, horse-racing and religion, and their own idiosyncratic adaptations to modern life. Seen from the troubled perspective of the daughter of an aristocratic family in decline, we watch the disintegration of a marriage in elegant but emotionally chilled surroundings, and the struggle to keep up appearances, and a collapsing roof, in front of the neighbours. By turns sad, absurd and funny, the story is ultimately liberating as failure leads to freedom."--Global Books in Print.

Author : Robin Farrar Maass
Publisher : SparkPress
ISBN 13 : 1684631327
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Walled Garden written by Robin Farrar Maass and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, The Crown, and Downton Abbey. American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who’s the subject of Lucy’s dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters—and when an elderly English aristocrat with a secret connection to Elizabeth offers Lucy access to a neglected walled garden on his estate, the mystery deepens. As spring turns to summer in Bolton Lacey, Lucy finds herself fighting the Blackspear Gardens’ director’s attempt to deny her access to vital documents in the archives . . . and trying not to fall in love with an attractive Scottish contractor. In the midst of this turmoil, she stumbles upon an illicit plot to turn the historic gardens into a theme park, and becomes determined to stop it. As she races against time to save the gardens, Lucy’s search for the truth about Elizabeth’s life leads her to a French convent where she uncovers explosive evidence that will change her life and the lives of everyone around her, ultimately revealing a home—and an inheritance—more incredible than anything she could ever have imagined.

Author : Susan Campbell
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747806578
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walled Kitchen Gardens written by Susan Campbell and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kitchen garden was designed to provide a continual supply not only of fruit, flowers and vegetables, but also of plants that had medicinal and veterinary uses, plants for flavouring food and drink, and those providing dyes, perfumes, narcotics, disinfectants, poisons and pesticides. With the aid of heated glasshouses, there would be out-of-season delicies such as strawberries for Christmas, exotic tropical fruits, and even figs and grapes. Once found in the grounds of most large country houses in Britain and Ireland, many have sadly fallen into disuse and ruin. Their remains can still be seen, however: some have been converted to other uses, others simply abandoned, while a few have been restored to their former glory and productiveness. This highly illustrated book explores a horticultural history spanning hundreds of years, and provides an extensive gazetteer of kitchen gardens that can still be visited today.

Author : Georgina Reid
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604699647
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Planthunter written by Georgina Reid and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and refreshing call to arms, The Planthunter is a new generation of gardening book for a new generation of gardener that encourages readers to fall in love with the natural world by falling in love with plants.

Author : Shawna Coronado
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
ISBN 13 : 1627886206
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Grow a Living Wall written by Shawna Coronado and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes called "Green Walls" or "Vertical Gardens," living walls are easier than ever to plan and grow! Grow a Living Wall is the first wall-gardening book to focus exclusively on the needs of home gardeners. Make your vertical garden environmentally friendly and sustainable. It's easy with author Shawna Coronado's help! One of her themed vertical gardens is stocked mostly with flowers to make it a haven for bees and other pollinators. Other gardens are filled with vegetables and herbs so anyone with an outdoor wall can grow their own food - beautifully! Even more gardens promote aromatherapy or medicinal plants. Some are designed to provide a green net of air filtration near a living area, or to protect exterior walls from exposure to direct sunlight, which helps to keep the indoors cool. In addition to the comprehensive, step-by-step information that explains the basics of vertical gardening, each of the 20 featured gardens has its own chapter filled with useful tips, stunning photography, and fascinating background stories that point out how much difference a small garden can make. Like author Shawna herself, the gardens you'll find in Grow a Living Wall are positive, life affirming, and sure to produce a smile or two.

Author : Cadence Kinsey
Publisher : British Academy Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780197266823
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Walled Gardens written by Cadence Kinsey and published by British Academy Monographs. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the relationship between art and the Internet from 2008 to 2016. As well as offering a critical account of the field, it also proposes a wider historical argument about what it means to live, work, and make art with the Internet in the twenty first century.

Author : Jules Hudson
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1911358901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Escape to the Country Handbook written by Jules Hudson and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration and advice about finding a dream home in the countryside from Jules Hudson, presenter of the BBC's Escape to the Country. Escape to the Country has run on daytime BBC1 since 2002 and is now in its eighteenth season. Each week it helps urban buyers find their dream home in rural Britain by showing them specially selected properties. Along the way the program tells us about the landscape and history of the area they are in. The program is on every weekday and has been sold to thirty countries including Australia, Canada, and the USA. This is an inspirational and practical book to appeal to armchair dreamers and lovers of property porn as well as those really thinking of making the move. Regional sections look at the typical kinds of homes found in each place, along with local landscapes and landmarks. Features sprinkled throughout the book cover everything from dealing with listed building consent and public footpaths to how grow your own food. Jules is well placed to talk about conservation and renovation issues too, having trained as an archaeologist and renovated his own historic house.

Author : Judith B. Tankard
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman written by Judith B. Tankard and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with original photographs of Shipman's superb gardens - many by photographer Mattie Edwards Hewitt which have never been previously published - and new photographs by Carol Betsch which were specially commissioned for this volume, the book documents in fascinating detail the life and work of one of America's most important and influential garden designers.