Tudor Garden 1485-1603

Name: Tudor Garden 1485-1603
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ISBN: 9780747813750

ISBN-10: 0747813752

ISBN-13: 9780747813750

Edition: N/A

Authors: Twigs Way, Jill Frankel, Twigs Way

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Contrived, colourful, and cultured, the garden of the Tudor period was a paradise on earth, given over to pleasurable pastimes. Artificiality was the fashion of the age, with clipped and twined plants vying for space between brightly painted woodwork, and patterned beds of coloured soils. Renaissance discoveries reared their head in royal gardens, as traditional gold and green heraldic figures mingled with fantastical sundials and glittering fountains. Walls kept out the wild world beyond, whilst mounts permitted glimpses to new parklands, and provided raised platforms for the banqueting houses of the wealthy. Ever-changing with newly introduced exotic plants and yet never changing with…

Book details

List price: $10.36
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 6/10/2013
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 64
Size: 8.27" wide x 5.87" long
Language: English

Twigs Way is a garden historian and author. She has written three successful books for Shire:Allotments, Garden GnomesandTopiary.