Garden History


The Medieval Garden
The Edwardian Garden
The Origin of Plants: The People and Plants That Have Shaped Britain's Garden History Since the Year 1000
The Story of Gardening
The Head Gardeners
The Plant Hunters
A Little History of British Gardening
Garden Spells
From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds
The Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
The Morville Hours
Green Enchantment (American Gardening Classics)
The Arts and Crafts Garden
The Country House Kitchen Garden, 1600-1950
Tiny Victory Gardens by Acadia TuckerThe Well-Tempered Garden by Christopher  LloydAround the World in 80 Gardens by Monty DonThe Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll by Richard BisgroveItalian Gardens by Monty Don
Garden design and history
26 books — 15 voters

Tom  Turner
Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'. ...more
Tom Turner, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

Tom  Turner
There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.
Tom Turner, Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC – 2000 AD

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