An insider's guide to the world's greatest 'secret' gardens, green spaces, and pocket parks tucked away in cities around the globe

Cities everywhere are graced with charming but little-known, off-the-beaten-track gardens and green spaces, offering urbanites in the know a chance to immerse themselves in nature. These often small, well-kept secrets are not as grand as those on the tourist trail but are equally delightful and rewarding to visit, if you know where to find them. Green Escapes is the revelatory insider's guide to these secret gems. Each of them open to the public, the gardens range from pocket parks, courtyards, and rooftop terraces, to community gardens and more.

About the Author:

Dr Toby Musgrave is an authority on garden history with many books to his name. He devised and presented the BBC Radio 4 series 'The British Garden', and has written for many magazines and newspapers. He teaches garden and plant history at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, and has also lectured at Oxford and Bristol Universities, and the Royal Horticultural Society. He was consultant editor for Phaidon's The Gardener's Garden (2014).

An A-to-Z compendium of more than 200 garden elements, styles, features, and ornaments for gardeners around the globe

Following the bestselling The Gardener's Garden, garden expert and historian Toby Musgrave explores the creative art of garden-making through more than 200 elements and features. This is the ultimate reference guide, with entries ranging from Allée and Bower to Formal, Native Planting, and Xeriscape — each illustrated with examples drawn from historic and contemporary gardens around the world. Whether tending an English cottage garden or a Japanese Zen landscape, gardeners and garden lovers everywhere will be inspired as never before.

About the Author:

Dr. Toby Musgrave is an authority on garden history. He devised and presented the BBC Radio 4 series The British Garden, and has written for many magazines and newspapers. He teaches garden history at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad, and has also lectured at Oxford University and the Royal Horticultural Society. He was consultant editor for The Gardener’s Garden (2014) and is author of Green Escapes (2018), both by Phaidon.

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• The first illustrated 'glossary' for gardeners and garden designers, featuring more than 200 definitions and informative descriptions of modern and historical garden styles, features, types, and ornaments — brought to life with more than 500 gorgeous illustrations
• A definitive reference book on garden design and its history, with an easy-to-use A-to-Z organization with handy cross-references
• Comprehensive in scope — entries span styles and types (cottage, Islamic, minimalist); features (basin, gazebo, waterfall); and design theories (borrowed landscape, geometric, informal, vista)
• Features gardens around the world, public, iconic, lesser-known, and private, and the work of emerging and eminent designers, including Andrea Cochran, Emily Erlam, Dan Pearson, and Bernard Trainor

Revealing the rich artistic history of this ever-changing art form, the A-to-Z format of this fully updated bestseller creates fascinating juxtapositions between the 500 iconic garden-makers of all time found within its pages

A beautifully illustrated A-to-Z who’s who of the world’s finest garden-makers, planters, horticulturists, and their signature works from throughout history, spanning all styles and continents, this international bestseller has been fully revised and updated for a modern, global readership. From the first religious gardens to Dan Pearson’s heavenly Tokachi garden in Japan today, each entry illustrates a key work by the designer, describes the garden, and evokes the unique spirit and ethos of their work.  Images span four millennia, from ancient Persian gardens to the naturalistic designs of today, with landscapes from Chanticleer to Central Park, Sissinghurst to Versailles, showcasing the biggest names and rising stars of contemporary garden design alongside iconic figures of the past, including Capability Brown, Andrea Cochran, Antoni Gaudí, Dan Hinkley, Gertrude Jekyll, Christopher Lloyd, Cornelia Oberlander, Charles Platt, Carlo Scarpa, Piet Oudolf and more. It’s the essential reference for today’s gardeners, offering infinite inspiration to create their own signature spaces, whatever their landscape. An exquisite gift and invaluable and authoritative reference for gardeners and garden lovers alike, offering lasting appeal to garden designers, students of garden design, amateur gardeners and garden historians.

About the authors:

Conceived and edited by Phaidon editors.

Tim Richardson, consultant editor, is an acclaimed garden historian and critic of landscape architecture.

Toby Musgrave is a widely published garden writer and historian.

The ultimate celebration of the world's most gorgeous gardens - now with a fresh, new look

This internationally bestselling inspirational resource for garden lovers and designers sports a gorgeous new cover design - bringing the book's winning blend of authority and visual appeal to a wider-than-ever audience. The Gardener's Garden spans seven centuries to spotlight more than 250 of the globe's finest permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists, and landscape architects, brought to life via more than 1,000 sumptuous photographs and in descriptive texts by leading garden writers.

About the Authors:

Madison Cox has designed gardens for prestigious clients and locations, including Sting, Michael Bloomberg, Marella Agnelli, Gramercy Park in New York, and London's St Martin's Lane.

Toby Musgrave is an authority on garden history; his books have covered a wide range of subjects and he has presented on ITV and Channel 4. He is faculty lecturer in garden and plant history at the Danish Institute for Study.

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• An elegant new look for a proven winner - with more than 35,000 copies sold of the previous editions
• Showcases gardens from every continent - selected by an international panel of experts
• Covers all types and styles of garden, from the grandeur of Versailles to a private sanctuary in Marrakech
• A valuable resource for those seeking inspiration on garden design and planting - and the ideal gift for garden lovers everywhere

The inspirational resource for garden designers and garden-lovers - now available in a compelling compact format

The ultimate garden book - both a collection of gardens from around the world and a resource for those seeking inspiration on garden design and planting. Featuring over 250 permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists and landscape architects, from the 14th century to the present day, and covering all key types and styles of garden, this well-illustrated compendium combines images, text, key information and captions for each of the featured gardens, appealing to both amateur and professional gardeners, as well as garden designers.

About the Authors:

Madison Cox has designed gardens for prestigious clients and locations, including Sting, Michael Bloomberg, Marella Agnelli, Gramercy Park in New York, and London’s St Martin's Lane.

Toby Musgrave is an authority on garden history; his books have covered a wide range of subjects and he has presented popular programmes on ITV and Channel 4. He is faculty lecturer in garden and plant history at the Danish Institute for Study.

This work includes ingenious solutions for creating small, secluded gardens for outdoor living; gives blueprints for designing, building and decorating a courtyard including barbecues, water features & decking; shows how to bring a courtyard alive with detailed planting blueprints, and is written by an eminent and best-selling author. "Courtyard Gardens" is packed with imaginative ideas for creating small, secluded gardens for outdoor living.

Whether you are starting with a new plot or transforming an existing garden into a private haven, this books offers a wealth of design and planting solutions.

This book features 18 three dimensional plans for classic garden styles that can be adopted for all different sizes and uses, from the classical garden through renaissance courtyards and Mediterranean styles to classical Japanese gardens.

The book contains hundreds of ideas for the wall. Screens, floors, water features and lighting, as well as a directory to plants, give guidance on the best type of plants for different types of garden.

There is perhaps no style of garden more emotive and evocative than the cottage garden - imbued with a sense of romance, idealised by writers and painters, and so alluring to garden makers all over the world, it has been fashionable for nearly two centuries. But, today we often think of it as outdated, old fashioned, past its sell-by date. Wrong! With the hustle and bustle of today's frantic lifestyle, the cottage garden has never been more appropriate. It is the distillation of the essence of what a garden should be - it is a place of beauty, repose and tranquillity.

It enables us to get back in touch with the soil, to enjoy the hugely rewarding, but simple pleasures of sowing seed and taking cuttings, of caring for plants and watching them grow and thrive, of harvesting and eating homegrown produce. And when the work is done, we can relax in a beautiful, sweetly scented floral retreat.