This guide includes all famous and notable gardens in the UK and highlights their horticultural attributes. An A-Z listing of popular plants enables readers to organize which gardens to visit in accordance with their plant preference. Addresses, telephone and fax numbers, websites, opening times, location maps and facilities offered by the gardens are included.

A guide to locating plants in the West lists close to 60,000 plants, and 336 nurseries, with cross-references to synonyms and common names.

Garden visitation has been a tourism motivator for many years and can now be enjoyed in many different forms. Private garden visiting, historical garden tourism, urban gardens, and a myriad of festivals, shows and events all allow the green-fingered enthusiast to appreciate the natural world. This book traces the history of garden visitation and examines tourist motivations to visit gardens. Useful for garden managers and tourism students as well as casual readers, it also examines management and marketing of gardens for tourism purposes, before concluding with a detailed look at the form and tourism-based role of gardens in the future.

Aimed at professional and novice garden and landscape designers; covers the background history and design consideration of naturalistic planting. Architecture (Landscape) & Town Planning; gardening

This valuable reference will be useful for both scholars and general readers. It is both botanical and cultural, describing the role of plant in social life, regional customs, the arts, natural and covers all aspects of plant cultivation and migration and covers all aspects of plant cultivation and migration. The text includes an explanation of plant names and a list of general references on the history of useful plants.

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