Gardeners can learn so much from these centuries-old ruined gardens of a famous Welsh estate. You'll appreciate your own overgrown and under-tended spaces--and find marvelous ideas for giving them new life as you stroll these 19th- and 18th-century gardens, and as you touch remnants of a 500-year-old Renaissance garden--and even earlier medieval grounds. Lavish, oversized color photos and an artful text take you through woods, brambles, and vine-strewn tunnels over 700 years old. As you explore the nine gardens of Aberglasney through changes under different owners with vastly different tastes, the experts who restored it in the early 1990s tell how they decided what to keep--and suggest how best to retain earlier periods from your own plantings. 192 pages, 80 color illus., 20 b/w illus., 8 x 10 5/8. NEW IN PAPERBACK