Landscape & Gardening: Cultivating Beauty and Understanding
Immerse yourself in the art and science of Landscape & Gardening. Discover the principles of garden design, plant selection, and landscape architecture. These books cover everything from garden design to sustainable landscaping practices. For those interested in historical and archaeological aspects of landscapes, explore our Landscape Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Garden History & Nature books.
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Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens
Full Price: £34.95
Discount Price: £27.95
ISBN: 9781914427350
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
288 Pages
Discusses the concept of Royal Gardens across Tudor and Stuart times, highlighting their internationalism and diplomatic theme.
Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford
The Case of Hanwell Castle
Price: £39.95
ISBN: 9781914427169
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-11-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Tells the story of the Copes, Baronets of Hanwell Castle, Oxfordshire, and the creation of a water garden that became a crucible for the development of scientific thinking in seventeenth-century Oxford.
Street Trees in Britain
A History
Full Price: £39.95
Discount Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781911188230
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2017-06-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
352 Pages
The trees that line our streets represent ‘living history’ in the midst of our modern streetscapes. This is the first book on the history of Britain’s street trees and it gives a highly readable, authoritative and often amusing account of their story, from the tree-lined promenades of the seventeenth century to majestic city centre boulevards to th
Historic Gardens and Parks of Derbyshire
Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920
Price: £25.00
ISBN: 9781911188049
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2017-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
272 Pages
Lavishly illustrated study of nearly 100 gardens in Derbyshire from the fabulously wealthy stately home to the smallest hidden delights; considers the importance of gardens in Derbyshire Spa towns; discusses the role of inherited wealth versus the new wealth of the industrial revolution on the design and creation of both extravagent private estates
Shades of Green
An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce
Price: £29.95
ISBN: 9781909686779
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
208 Pages
This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of northwest Europe. Sitka spruce has contributed to the Pacific Coast landscapes of North America for over ten millennia.
Wild Harvest
Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds
Full Price: £32.00
Discount Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781785701238
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
368 Pages
Major new textbook discussing the role of plants in hominin and pre-agrarian human societies with case studies drawn from ethnography, ethnohistory, and ethnoarchaeology illustrating methods of analysis of plant remains and how archaeobotanical assemblages may be used and interpreted
Local Places, Global Processes
Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond
Full Price: £29.95
Discount Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781909686939
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
272 Pages
Presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the relationship between perceptions of enviornmental change at a local scale and the wider forces of transformation, addressing influential ways of understanding and debating questions of ‘the state of nature’.
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World
History, Myth and Archaeology
Price: £29.99
ISBN: 9781909686854
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-01-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
304 Pages
Traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages.
Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens
Full Price: £34.95
Discount Price: £27.95
ISBN: 9781914427350
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
288 Pages
Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford
The Case of Hanwell Castle
Price: £39.95
ISBN: 9781914427169
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-11-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Street Trees in Britain
A History
Full Price: £39.95
Discount Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781911188230
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2017-06-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
352 Pages
Historic Gardens and Parks of Derbyshire
Challenging Landscapes, 1570-1920
Price: £25.00
ISBN: 9781911188049
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2017-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
272 Pages
Shades of Green
An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce
Price: £29.95
ISBN: 9781909686779
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
208 Pages
Wild Harvest
Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds
Full Price: £32.00
Discount Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781785701238
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
368 Pages
Local Places, Global Processes
Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond
Full Price: £29.95
Discount Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781909686939
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
272 Pages
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World
History, Myth and Archaeology
Price: £29.99
ISBN: 9781909686854
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-01-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
304 Pages