Mark Laird is a historic landscape consultant and garden conservator and teaches landscape history at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Previous books include The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720–1800 and Mrs. Delany and Her Circle (Yale).
Books in order of publication:
The Formal Garden: Traditions of Art and Nature – 1992
The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800 – 1999
Mrs. Delany and Her Circle – 2009
A Natural History of English Gardening: 1650-1800 – 2015
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