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A Garden A Day

Series: A Day
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A Garden A Day by Ruth Chivers is an inspiring guide that explores the beauty and serenity of gardens around the world. The book celebrates a diverse range of gardens, offering readers a delightful escape into lush landscapes and meticulous designs. It encourages readers to connect with nature every day through captivating photography and insightful commentary.
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You might enjoy this book if you find solace in the beauty of gardens and appreciate the art of designing and maintaining a garden space year-round. With insights from Ruth Chivers, this guide offers daily inspirations and practical tips for garden enthusiasts seeking to create or enhance their own green havens.

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An exploration of gardens through the ages and across the globe in 366 daily entries, from the ancient hanging gardens of Babylon to vegetable gardens in space.

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From the ancient hanging gardens of Babylon to modern Japanese zen, Ruth Chivers discovers gardens through the ages and across the globe, exploring the history, design, horticulture, literary inspiration, folklore and poetry of our beloved outside spaces in 365 daily entries.

Our love of nature finds its most obvious expression in our gardens. Through the ages and across the globe, civilisations and cultures have felt compelled to create an outside space of our own to connect with nature. In this fascinating visual collection, garden writer and gardener Ruth Chivers explores garden history, design, horticulture, literary inspiration, folklore and poetry in 365 daily entries.

A Garden A Day covers everything from Sissinghurst to Japanese gardens, from a poem, Garden by the Sea, to the latest horticultural details of a rewilded garden, from imaginary gardens from literature to the real garden that inspired Matisse. Planting plans, botanical details, famous gardens, future garden ideas and secret gardens are all included.

Visually stunning, the book has beautiful paintings of gardens, historic plans, botanical painting and the best garden photography there is. A beautiful, fascinating and essential book for any gardener that brings home the wonder of these spaces to all of us.

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  • A Garden A Day
    From the ancient hanging gardens of Babylon to modern Japanese zen, Ruth Chivers discovers gardens through the ages and across the globe, exploring the history, design, horticulture, literary inspiration, folklore and poetry of our beloved outside spaces in 365 daily entries. Our love of nature finds its most obvious expression in our gardens. Through the ages and across the globe,...
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    Available
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849947893

Publisher: Batsford

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 November 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Batsford

Illustration: 365 illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 221.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Ruth Chivers is a gardening enthusiast, who has written and contributed to many gardening books and features for magazines as well as articles online. She is a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers (FSGD), with a special interest in contemporary garden design, 20th-century garden history and low maintenance garden design, and she lectures on garden design and garden history.

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