England's Magnificent Gardens

This is a book on English garden history as a reflection of Britain’s history, from Charles II’s seventeenth-century gardens to Prince Charles’s today.

Sir Roderick Floud, a prominent British economic historian, traces the origins of gardens in Britain to Roman times but argues that their true growth began in the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century, London nurseries covered 100 acres, harboring ten million plants worth more than all French nurseries combined.

Floud’s book traverses over three centuries of English history, detailing the garden obsessions of kings, queens, and princes that shaped the English landscape, from the Stuart era to the modern Windsors.

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