The author, a landscape architect from Australia at Cape Town University, starts with his own view of the French landscape tradition, making observations on Le Notre's formal Vaux-le-Vicomte and the more naturalistic 1630 Chateau de Courances the south west, In his paean to the art of gardening, having paid visits to both, he describes his preference for the latter with an erudite sensibility that stretches the length of his personal, in-depth study of the art of gardening. He argues, using historic examples, for the 'viridic' (verdantly green) landscape the way architects demand the 'tectonic' of space. His argument is built on the study ofsix gardens; from Courances to a modern Scottish scientist's 'marginal' one, barely distinguishable from nature. Photos are mostly the author's own, the colour-saturated bower image on the cover hints at the joys to come.
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机译：作者是开普敦大学（Cape Town University）澳大利亚的一位景观设计师，他从他对法国景观传统的看法开始，对勒诺特的正式Vaux-le-Vicomte和更自然的1630 Chateau de Courances西南（在他的赞歌中）进行了观察。在拜访了两者之后，他对园艺艺术进行了描述，他以博学的敏感性描述了他对后者的偏爱，这延伸了他对园艺艺术的个人深入研究的时间。他用历史性的例子论证了“虚拟的”（鲜绿色）景观是建筑师要求空间的“构造”的方式。他的论点建立在对六个花园的研究之上。从《 Courances》到现代苏格兰科学家的“边缘”，几乎与大自然区分开。照片大多是作者自己的照片，封面上的彩色饱和凉亭图像暗示了未来的欢乐。
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