The Indoor Garden Book

by John Brookes

Quarto, 1986, PP.288, A Useful Text From A Noted Landscape Designer who Has Turned His Attention Indoors

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

John Andrew Brookes MBE was a garden and landscape designer. He started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s and designed thousands of gardens. He also taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design.

Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London.

Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholsen, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design.[2] He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labour-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance. He is the author of over two dozen books, including Room Outside and John Brookes, Master Class, that have been translated into several languages and has taught and lectured in venues around the globe, including Iran, Argentina, Japan, Russia, and the US.

In 2004 Brookes was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his for contributions to Garden Design and Services to Horticulture.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_...]

Reviews

[Marita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome book, even if the pictures were somewhat dated, very 80s, which was sort of fun.

[Polina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of impressive inspiring photos but failed to grab my interest to actually read it thoroughly past the first few sections. Makes a great coffee table book though, and like I said, the illustrations alone are enough to provide a good grasp of concepts and feel like one has obtained some education on the subject.

[Beroha · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice book for indoor gardening with general tips and also ideas about flower arrangement. It isn't very specific about the needs of each and every plant (which book could be , by the way?) so if you want to learn all there is to know about one plant or one type of plant, better buy a book specifically about it.

[Evan]

What to do about my backyard?? Hmmm...