Heritage Gardens. The World’s Great Gardens Saved by Restoration.

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Heritage Gardens. The World’s Great Gardens Saved by Restoration.George Plumtree. Features some of the most interesting private and public garden restorations of the last century in the UK, Europe and the United States. Forty gardens are featured, and the author has delved into archives to recover original plans, drawings, photographs and contemporary paintings to document the decline, and illuminate the recovery, of these gardens. A sumptuous publication. A large heavy book. Michael Beazley, London, 2007. ISBN

Paul Sorrell

These fine photographs are accompanied by a botanist’s very informative and pertinent text

who travelled with James Cook on his second Pacific exploring expedition from 1772 to 1775

including ferns and fungi

The illustrated story of Aucklander Muriel Fisher

Plants from other regions

An edited version of the author’s newspaper Gardening Notes

The women were both amateur and professional artists and some were published

and it’s relation to social structures

A special feature of the book are the timelines which date the main events in each centre up to 1987

Artaud Daurat & Christina Duthil

The Prince details his thinking behind each aspect of the garden