The avant gardens : visionaries and gardens beyond wild expectations / edited by Robert Klanten ; written by John Tebbs ; text support by Dylan McNulty-Holmes.

Step into the gardens of the future Blurring the lines between the natural and the cultivated, The Avant Garden observes visionary and unusual gardens in all their varying forms. Exploring the out of the ordinary, this book showcases a wide range of projects that reflect the shifting mindsets and cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tebbs, John (Author, Editor)
McNulty-Holmes, Dylan (Author)
Other Authors: Klanten, Robert (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Gestalten, 2023.
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Physical Description:269 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Gardens that connect us
  • The garden of a Victorian visionary
  • A colorful horticultural hotbed
  • A repeat passion in Morocco
  • A garden across generations
  • A poem of a garden
  • Less cultivation, more observation
  • Celebrating Australia's unique flora
  • Landscape, playscape: all is sculpture
  • An evolving artwork beyond the gallery
  • Garden radicals and the Dutch wave
  • The Oudolfs' nursery of ideas
  • Rewilding an overlooked space in a castle garden
  • What is the future of the garden?
  • A postwar vision for a better world
  • A reimagined riad garden in Marrakesh
  • Repairing and refining nature's resilience
  • Rethinking & regenerating a Scottish estate
  • A vision dor a thousand years
  • An experiment in coexisting in Mexico
  • Revealing the spirit of place
  • A slow discovery of beauty
  • What is a garden?
  • Bio architecture: an organic serpent in the trees
  • A radical plot that keeps inspiring new directions
  • "God, to me. is nature"
  • Points of view
  • A return to nature: the "antigarden"
  • A wild Welsh garden in the woods
  • Trial & observation: the garden as teacher
  • Nature's genius" observation & co-creation
  • A pioneer of "right plant, right place".