Magnificent kitchen gardens are a long-standing tradition in France. Every region has its own characteristic examples that--depending on the climate, terrain, and design--boast a profusion of vegetables, fruit, flowers, and herbs. Family knowledge is carefully handed down for the benefit of each new generation. In this wonderful celebration of the French kitchen garden, old-fashioned techniques and obscure produce are rediscovered. An illuminating text and brilliant color photographs uncover vegetable patches alongside chateaux or abbeys, gourmet gardens planted by master chefs, romantic gardens tended by parish priests, and lovely ornamental idylls. Four main sections, covering stately homes, grassroots gardening, dreams and utopias, and vegetable produce, conjure up the rich history and extraordinary variety of the French countryside from Paris to the Alps. The extravagance of the kitchen garden at Mongenan, highly praised by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the mosaic-like patterns of the allotments at Ivry, and labyrinthine cultivated gardens at Amiens are just a few examples of these most original, most secret, most spectacular, and most poetic of kitchen gardens.

Kitchen Gardens of France

Jones, Louisa

Arts & Photography

Thames&Hudson

"If you are looking for a celebration of life in a small space, turn to the French garden for the answers."The Evening Standard French country gardening has experienced a renaissance in recent years. While the great French heritage still thrives, its traditions now provide inspiration for fresh delights and creative expression, as vividly demonstrated in this beautifully photographed volume. The book reaches into every corner of France, from Normandy to the Riviera, from Picardy to the Pyrenees, revealing in exquisite detail the full extent and exciting diversity of the modern French country garden. A magical and intimate "grandmother's garden" on the ancient Via Aurelia combines fruits, herbs, flowers, and vegetables; "gardens for the five senses" focus on sensual stimulation; "natural" gardens protect local ecosystems; and formal gardens incorporate witty and subversive variations on the traditional pattern. 236 color illustrations.

French Country Garden: New Growth on Old Roots

“Presents work from throughout the region, whether a lushly layered property in the Tuscan countryside or a Zen-inspired plot on the French island of Corsica.” ―Architectural Digest Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least 30,000 years. Today, artists, sculptors, designers, architects, and gardeners explore age-old materials, skills, and sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that celebrates life in this multifaceted region. Each work here, whether in France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, or Spain, observes the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture, and land use. Creative talents from many contexts meet in these pages, such as Gilles Clément and Andy Goldsworthy, Nicole de Vésian and Ian Hamilton Finlay, Arnaud Maurieres and Eric Ossart, Mary Keen, herman de vries, and Paolo Pejrone. Illustrated with hundreds of photos by award-winning photographer Clive Nichols, and drawing on thirty years of exploration by Louisa Jones, this book offers an inspiring vision of the Mediterranean, linking cultural diversity and natural balance as discovered in its gardens, landscape design, literature, art, and architecture. 256 color illustrations

Mediterranean Landscape Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

An in-depth study based on a ten-year history of the Chaumont festival, a world celebrated garden and landscape design forum, encompasses more than two hundred photographs, in addition to insights from public reaction, new and upcoming designers, and the work of such notable designers as Lynden Miller, Peter Latz, and Adriaan Geuze.

Reinventing the Garden: Chaumont--Global Inspirations from the Loire

For many, visiting gardens both large and small, public and private, is one of the pleasures of modern travel. The most urban New Yorker, Berliner, or Parisian will not miss the gardens of Kyoto or Souchow, Florence or Charleston, when on vacation. Louisa Jones explores ten types of gardens, and for each she proposes ten questions that the visitor might ask, along with suggestions of things to look for and think about. 185 color illustrations

The Garden Visitor's Companion

Travel

Inspiring and joyful designs from France, Morocco, Italy, Greece, and Spain: an essential companion for anyone interested in landscape design, gardens, and art.
Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least 30,000 years. Millennia of human negotiations with the land prove that to “tread lightly” on the earth need not be at odds with our interface with nature.
Today’s landscape architects, designers, land artists, sculptors, and gardeners are taking inspiration from age-old materials, skills, and sites to produce landscape designs and art that celebrate living in this multifaceted region. All involve a strongly graphic vision of the landscape; are site-generated; and observe the logic of place as determined by climate, geology, flora and fauna, architecture, and land use.
Contemporary landscape designers and land artists from Nicole de Vésian to Fernando Caruncho, Heidi Gildemeister to Paolo Pejrone, Andy Goldsworthy to Gilles Clément, and Jacqueline Morabito to Ian Hamilton Finlay are featured. 265 color photographs

Mediterranean Landscape Design: Vernacular Contemporary

Architecture

Using fresh, seasonal ingredients, fifteen of Provence's top chefs offer sixty of their most innovative recipes, all designed for the home cook, with simple, easy-to-follow instructions and a wealth of full-color photographs. IP.

New Provencal Cuisine

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Chronicle Books+

A beautifully illustrated tour of country gardens throughout France features more than two hundred full-color photographs that capture a wide array of French gardening styles, from the exotic and innovative to the classical and formal. 20,000 first printing. Country Homes &amp; Gardens Alt.

The French Country Garden: Where the Past Flourishes in the Present

Bulfinch

Describes the museums, crafts, and villages of Provence throughout the year, and shares excerpts from literature about the region and local recipes

Provence: A Country Almanac

Europe

Stewart. Tabori & Chang

No one knows Provence better than Louisa Jones. Not only has she lived there for nearly 30 years and written 8 books on the subject, she also designs private tours that explore the "Unknown Provence" and Provenal gardens. 
Originally published in 1993, Jones has completely reworked the entries in this updated version of the book. She has expanded her tour of Provence's lush gardens, exquisite wineries, local crafts, unique museums, fine hotels, and fabulous restaurants, and added 14 Provenal recipes and a section devoted to Terence Conran's home and garden. A revised index includes new addresses for streets, E-mail, and the Internet, as well as new phone and fax numbers.

History

Harry N. Abrams

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Kitchen Gardens of France

French Country Garden: New Growth on Old Roots

Mediterranean Landscape Design

Reinventing the Garden: Chaumont--Global Inspirations from the Loire

The Garden Visitor's Companion

Mediterranean Landscape Design: Vernacular Contemporary

New Provencal Cuisine

The French Country Garden: Where the Past Flourishes in the Present

Provence: A Country Almanac

Provence: A Country Almanac