Describes more than 200 gardens in China from temple courtyards, ancient burial grounds, and imperial tombs to public parks, botanical gardens, and arboreta.

It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornament

Celebrates the skilled gardeners of Imperial China through new research that opens a new chapter in the story of our garden plants.

You will gain deep insight not only into the art of gardening in China, but into its historical significance within the context of gardening and landscape desig

Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly bas