These titles have obvious parallels to books on art history. A new book, “The Story of Gardening,” beckons me once more down this well-trodden path. First, it marks the return of one of the most insightful voices in the gardening world, the venerable British landscape historian and garden designer Penelope Hobhouse. Third, it connects all this history to the current rich state of landscape design and horticulture. ADAD“The gardens of Islam,” Hobhouse writes, “are among the most sublime in the world — soothing, refreshing and deeply spiritual.”And what of our contemporary paradise?

Source: Washington Post August 19, 2020 11:03 UTC