The architect John Dando Sedding, who designed gardens for the houses he built, sets out what a garden should be: a work of art closely bound to the house. He traces the English garden from monastic and Tudor plots through the formal parterre to the eighteenth-century landscape school, quoting old writers generously. A memoir of Sedding by E. F. Russell opens the book.
A classic of Arts and Crafts garden thinking, for gardeners and lovers of English houses. Download the free EPUB.