Planting DreamsCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781742234649 Year: 2016 Publisher: NewSouth Publishing Description: 'A garden should be just a little too big to keep the whole cultivated. Then it gives it a chance to go a little wild in spots' Edna Walling, landscape designer Waratah or wattle? Chrysanthemum or rose? Planting Dreamscelebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Respected garden historian Richard Aitken explores the
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Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781742234649 Year: 2016 Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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'A garden should … be just a little too big to keep the whole cultivated. Then it gives it a chance to go a little wild in spots'– Edna Walling, landscape designer
Waratah or wattle? Chrysanthemum or rose?Planting Dreamscelebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Respected garden historian Richard Aitken explores the environmental and social influences that have helped produce our unique gardening culture – from Indigenous land management and the earliest European garden at Farm Cove, to the potted plants and besser block screens of mid-twentieth century modernist design and beyond.
Drawing on the unparalleled collections of the State Library of New South Wales,Planting Dreamsshowcases Australian garden makingin all its richness and diversitythrough a stunning and intriguing mix of paintings, sketches, photographs, and prints, from popular culture to high art.
'An elegant look at the miraculous gardening evolution'– Indira Naidoo, author of TheEdible Balcony