This extensively illustrated volume offers spectacular gardens across Europe, and discusses the various features of garden design, for gardens large and small, formal and natural, set against woodlands or grand homes, and even some kitchen gardens.

"In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded...

"With guidance from The Elegant and Edible Garden, you'll learn how to create a one-of-a-kind food garden that's just as beautiful as it is functional"--

The Japanese garden, like all gardens, is more than mere nature; it is nature crafted by man. Detailing the characteristics distinguishing and differentiating each of the five major epochs in the history of the Japanese garden, this work identifies the common motif which underlies them all.