G&P list of GWARDEN BOOKZZZ (copy)

Charlemagne

, Capitulare de Villis, c.812

Wala(h)frid Strabo

, Hortulus, 840

Piero de’ Crescenzi,

Liber Ruralium Commodorum, c.1304-1309

Francesco Colonna,

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499: visualisations of the Renaissance gardens

Johan Vredeman de Vries,

Forms of gardens and green spaces, 1583: Visualisation of the Dutch Renaissance garden, geometric forms from above and divided his drawings into Ionic, Doric and Corinthian orders

André Mollet,

Le Jardin de Plaisir, 1651: bief notes on agriculture and gardening to get succesful results

John Evelyn,

Sylva, 1664: book on forestry

Jean Baptiste de la Quintinie,

Instructions pour les Jardins Fruitiers et Potagers, 1690: how to grow plants out of season for the King’s kitchen gardens

Horace Walpole,

History of Modern Taste in Gardening, 1780: Highly influential, the English landscape garden is a direct result of the growth of British political liberties

Thomas Whately

, Observations on Modern Gardening, 1770: described and analysed estates

William Chambers,

Designs of Chinese Buildings, 1757: anglo-chinois gardens

C.H. Watelet,

Essai sur les Jardins, 1774: Poetic, picturesque, romantic and an ideal garden is one with medium proportions for pleasure and interest. Give priority to nature but recognising art’s right to intervene

C.C.L Hirschfeld,

Theorie der Gartenkunst, 1779-1785: ‘father of landscape garden art’ and viewing landscapes from a moral-philosophical pov

G. van Laar,

Magazijn van Tuinsieraden, 1802: construction plans with garden decorations

William Robinson,

The Wild Garden, 1870: native plants, mixed herbaceous borders of hardly perennial plantings (no bare soil exposed). On public parks and private gardens

Gertrude Jekyll,

Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, 1914: naturalism, similar to Robinson