San Antonio College Library

Contains photographs of fourteen gardens in England, the United States and Canada, including Shakespeare's own gardens. This work describes each garden in detail and fills in the history of its creation. Each photograph is accompanied by a substantial quotation from one of the plays in which it is mentioned.

For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes...