In these three texts, brought together and translated into English for the first time, Gilles Clement outlines his interpretation of the laws that govern the natural world as well as the principles that should guide our stewardship of the global garden of Earth.  Meer

In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.  Meer

La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany offers a rare look at the majestic, romantic, and personal aspects of one of the loveliest and most bewitching places on earth.  Meer

Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century.  Meer

Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, and dukes and kings alike.  Meer