Planting Paradise
Subtitle: Cultivating the Garden, 1501-1900
Publisher: Bodleian Library; Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781851243433
Subjects: Gardening; Gardens
Description: Planting Paradise reveals how the botanic gardens of early modern Europe were largely viewed as a means of supplying surgeons with medicines but by the seventeenth and eighteenth century the interest in gardens and cultivating exotic plants had spread to all levels of society. As global exploration took Europeans all over the world, gardens became a tapestry of many diverse botanical histories—some plants were native, some were introduced from foreign lands, and others were bred in the garden. Planting Paradise shows how the garden became a symbol of human interactions within the botanical world.