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Garden and Landscape History Resources

This page provides quicklinks to history resources. The navigation tabs, above, lead to more resources on the Gardenvisit.com website. They include 200+ online articles and 20+ online eTexts + images.

Historic styles of garden design eBooks

 

Gardenvisit.com publishes an eBook on the 24 Historic Styles of Garden Design which had the most influence in Europe from 2000 BCE to 2000 CE. Each style is represented by one of the 24 diagrams (as on the cover, left) and the book contains key examples of each style. The eBook was written by Tom Turner and published in 2008 with 84 pages and 230 colour illustrations. There are hyperlinks to the garden descriptions on this website with aerial photography and maps of how to find the gardens.
EUROPE Biographies of Garden and Landscape Designers, Glossary of Design Terms.
STYLES CHART

Historic Gesign Styles Chart - Historic Garden Types List - Sacred Space and Religious Gardens -

Guide to historic garden restoration - Biographies of Garden and Landscape Designers - Distance Learning Certificate in Garden History -

CENTRAL & WEST ASIA

West Asian Gardens - Egypt - Iran - Uzbekistan - India - Turkey -

SOUTH ASIA

India garden history - C.M Villiers Stuart Gardens of the Great Mughals by Constance Villiers-Stuart -
EAST ASIA

Chinese garden history - Japanese garden history - Landscape Gardening in Japan, 1912 by Josiah Conder

NORTH AMERICA


Introduction - American garden design in 1834 - landscape architecture in 1928 - Canadian Gardens


 

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