French Garden Style

French Garden Style

by Georges Lévêque (Author), Georges Lévêque (Author), Penelope Hobhouse (Foreword), Marie-Francoise Valéry (Author)

Synopsis

This guide to garden design provides the reader with a tour of more than 30 of France's most beautiful gardens. They range in size from enormous estates to tiny urban oases, showing the diversity of gardening styles that exists within France. Some subtly reflect their surroundings, others are geometric in plan; some show a strong English influence or are guided by colour harmonies, while others simply exude their owners' love of cultivating plants.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 12 Oct 1995

ISBN 10: 0711210616
ISBN 13: 9780711210615

Author Bio
Marie-Francoise Valery discovered her love of gardens on a visit to some gardens in Oxford, and decided to share this love by writing about them. Marie-Francoise proceeded to write for gardening magazines and then to write a variety of books on the topic. Penelope Hobhouse is internationally-renowned as a garden designer, writer and historian. She holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society. She has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Guild of Garden Writers and a Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America. To visit Penelope Hobhouse's website click here