The Fairer Side of Buxton. Alfred Buxton’s gardens & the women who loved them. NEW.

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The Fairer Side of Buxton. Alfred Buxton’s gardens & the women who loved them. NEW.Clare Gleeson. Buxton is now regarded as the father of landscape design in New Zealand. Working in the early years of the twentieth century he created expansive and sophisticated gardens. This is the well illustrated story of these gardens and of the women who commissioned them and tended them. The Cuba Press, Wellington, 2024. ISBN 9781988595849 Hardback with printed boards. 248 pages. NEW. Fine condition.

It also describes the people responsible for the introductions from all temperate regions of the world

as she visits the island in her search for the real story

including New Zealand

the factors influencing their severity

to international export success from the early 1880s to a peak around 1900

ISBN 9780207161865

At the time of publication in 1982

Drawings and photographs

Five colour plates and forty two black and white

Edited by Mary Trewby

First published in 1967

The second section considers all the old flowers found in such gardens