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The Botanic Garden Ambra Edwards

The Botanic Garden By Ambra Edwards

The Botanic Garden by Ambra Edwards


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The Botanic Garden takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens, as it tours the most magnificent botanic havens in the world.

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The Botanic Garden: The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries by Ambra Edwards

This rich and beautiful guide from bestselling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world.

There has never been a better time to celebrate botanic gardens. From Brooklyn and San Francisco, to Colombia and Brazil; Oxford and Kew, to Cape Town and Mauritius; Norway and Germany, to Sydney and Thailand, discover surprising diversity, superb vistas and some of the most intriguing plants you can imagine.

As centres for research, conservation and education, these expansive collections are integral to our understanding of the true power of plants.

But they also hold some of the most beautiful species on earth including ferns, trees, cacti, orchids and more expertly cared for and presented as a feast for the senses, delighting thousands of visitors each year.

Ambra Edwards introduces the gardens, bringing them to life on the page, and uncovers their history, collections and scientific influence. This is a celebration of the wonder that is contained within the worlds greatest botanic gardens.

About Ambra Edwards

Ambra Edwards is an award-winning writer and garden historian. She is the author of the National Trusts definitive The Story of the English Garden, the acclaimed global history The Story of Gardening (with Penelope Hobhouse) and most recently The Plant Hunters Atlas, which tells the enthralling stories of plants and the people who found them. In 2017, her bestselling book Head Gardeners was named Book of the Year by the Garden Media Guild. Three times named Garden Journalist of the Year in Britain, her work also appears in Europe and Australia.

Table of Contents

Botanic Gardens: an evolution
Padua Botanical Garden
Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Cibodas Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden
Hanbury Botanical Gardens
New York Botanical Garden
The Huntington Desert Garden
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Weihenstephan Trials Garden
Nong Nooch Tropical Garden
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Viera y Clavijo Botanical Garden
National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii
Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
Belize Botanic Gardens
S.ller Botanic Garden
Troms. Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden
Nezahat G.kyigit Botanic Garden
Ethnobotanical Garden of Oaxaca
Select bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements

Additional information

GOR013941861
9780711282261
0711282269
The Botanic Garden: The world's greatest botanical sanctuaries by Ambra Edwards
Used - Like New
Hardback
Quarto Publishing PLC
2024-09-12
256
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