Dan Kiley in his own Words. America’s Master Landscape Architect.

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Dan Kiley in his own Words. America’s Master Landscape Architect.Dan Kiley and Jane Amidon. This comprehensive and definitive publication was the first monograph on Kiley and his oeuvre, produced with his close collaboration. American Dan Kiley was arguably the most important international landscape architect of the twentieth century. Here he sets out his beliefs and working practices and draws together decades of experience and a deep knowledge of nature and plants. The work covers his entire career from 1935 to

After his return to Britain he began sorting and publishing his collection

including details on collecting and sowing spores and creating a fernery

A superb and authoritative history of the books and albums of pressed specimens produced during the Victorian fascination with ferns or 'pteridomania’ as it has been called

The book also address the question of the aesthetics of trees in the landscape

There are more than 3200 fine photographs depicting details of leaves

its importance to Maori

Illustrated with the fine photographs of Simon Griffiths

ISBN 9781869410865

ISBN 9780340622629

Acampe to Zygopetalum

Banks’ Florilegium consists of 743 engravings of plants gathered by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Cook’s first voyage around the world in HM Barque Endeavour

1730 species of flowers

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