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A guide to garden tours and history, historic parks, and botanic collections open to the public in the UK, USA, Europe, Japan, India, and Australia.
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Gardens Guide: tours, design, products and history Online books on garden design history for tourists, students and teachers of landscape and garden history (two full eBooks but with the illustrations on the Garden History CD Glossary LANDSCAPE GUIDE: to landscape architecture (see News below) Advice on garden...A visual tour of three Renaissance Gardens and their relationship to the art of the period.
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J.-E Berger Foundation: THE ENCHANTED GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE One has heard of the gardens of Semiramis and the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon. There are traces of an Egyptian Pharaoh's garden. It was the one designed by the Pharaoh Tutmosis III within the temple complex at Karnak. More...Quotes, proverbs, articles, history, humor, links, and resources for the gardener.
http://www.gardendigest.com/index.htm
Educational web site providing information on outstanding examples of Japanese garden art.
http://www.jgarden.org/
Index to a number of notable and historic gardens, including photographs, history, and descriptions.
http://www.chinaplanner.com/gardens/index.htm
Noteworthy Publications, Persons, and Events in the History of Gardening. Including some Related Information from Agriculture, Natural History, Botany, and Ecology. By Michael P. Garofalo
http://www.gardendigest.com/timegl.htm
Garden history books of the 20th century
http://www.gardendigest.com/btgarh.htm
On some of the symbolism used in their design, illustrated by literature and an example.
http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~ige/gardens/1h1.htm
Mythological references to gardening subjects.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/garden_adventures/27640
History of gardens and landscapes in the Indian subcontinent, with links to related sites
http://www.chengappa.demon.co.uk/il/
On the theoretical basis behind the major standard features of Chinese gardens.
http://dekart.f.bg.ac.yu/~dpajin/gardens/
A research project on Japanese gardens, by 16 American students who were in Japan in 1996
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/shiga96/garden.html
A catalog of 8000 slides about parks and gardens in Europe.
http://www.vilar.com
Government tourist office guide to Iranian gardens
http://www.itto.org/attraction/i...nattraction.asp?category=Gardens
A history of garden vegetables, orginally published in National Geographic (1949), and reprinted here as a special feature.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.e...publications/vegetabletravelers/
Collects, preserves, and distributes historic plant varieties.
http://www.monticello.org/chp/index.html
An account of gardening from ancient times to the twentieth century organized by time periods with links to supplementary information.
http://www.gardendigest.com/timetab.htm
Complete text of the 1913 book is available online here. Detailed accounts of European gardens, added later material on North America, brief accounts of the rest of the world.
http://www.gardenvisit.com/got/
Information from the first chapter of a book on Dutch gardens.
http://library.wur.nl/speccol/intro.html
A categorised collection of images and photographs of gardens and landscapes in a number of designs.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~helphand/homepage.html
Guide to the plants carried by early Polynesian voyagers in their canoes - history and traditional uses for each of two dozen plants.
http://www.canoeplants.com/
Account of some of the major French gardens made in the style known in France as Anglo-Chinese, and in England as English landscape.
http://cesarigd.club.fr/parcsafabriques/homepage.htm
Archive of an exhibition with items from the Mertz Library’s rare books and archival materials. Includes orangeries, hothouses and botanical drawings.
http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/winterex.html
Tells the story of the development of gardening in Canada by indigenous peoples and settlers, through the books, periodicals, and printed materials collected by the National Library of Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/garden/
Descriptions and photographs of materials found in the Vatican library. Two galleries, one for botanical illustrations and writings dating back to the 10th century, the other for works created in Renaissance Rome.
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG...bit/exhibit/g-nature/Nature.html
Recreated medieval garden based on German gardens in Martin Luther's age. Garden history, information about some of the plants.
http://www.ilconline.org/Gardenphoto.shtml
Images and text on 8 Italian Renaissance Gardens and on Giverny in France
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/vi...lture/projects/diva/italian.html
Architectural historian presents his series of county guides to the historic landscapes and gardens of England, biographies, and other studies.
http://www.timothymowl.co.uk