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The Tudor Garden: 1485-1603 (Shire Library) by Twigs Way is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Contrived, Colourful And Cultured, The Tudor Garden Was A Paradise On Earth, Given Over To Pleasurable Pastimes And Aesthetic Effect. Artificiality Was The Fashion Of The Age, With Clipped And Twining Plants Vying For Space With Brightly Painted Woodwork And Patterned Beds.renaissance Discoveries Reared Their Heads In Royal Gardens, Where Gilded And Painted Heraldic Figures Mingled With Fantastical Sundials And Glittering Fountains. Walls Kept Out The Wild World Beyond, While Mounts Afforded Glimpses To New Parklands And Provided Raised Platforms For The Banqueting Houses Of The Wealthy. Ever-changing With Newly Introduced Exotic Plants, Yet Featuring Year-round Knot Gardens, The Tudor Garden Was A Vibrant Pageant, And Is Given A Suitably Colourful Celebration In This Fully Illustrated Book--back Cover. Introduction -- Planting Paradise -- 'gardens So Enknotted' -- 'a Dulcet Spring And Marvaylous Fountaine' -- 'all Manner Of Carpenters' Work' -- Royalty And Pageant -- Gardens And Museums To Visit. Twigs Way. Includes Bibliographical References (page 63) And Index.

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Author

Twigs Way

Publisher

Trans-Atlantic Publications

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780747813750

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Stem