Gardening is one of life’s most civilized pleasures. Whether novice or expert, there’s alays something new to know and discover. Recent years have seen an array of innovation and new products in the gardening world. Gardening is a somewhat unpredictable hobby with the vagaries of weather, soil and just plain luck playing a large part. Design is the framework that gives shape to Mother Nature. This useful and motivating guide shows how seating, paths, lighting terraces, walls, decoration and water all play a part. Learn how your outdoor space can be a place to treasure.
Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them
An account of eminent women landscape architects who flourished in the golden age of country estates.
This beautiful book covers in depth the work of six designers—Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders—and looks at a dozen other less-well-known women. It focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and as professionals. 187 duotones, 20 color illustrations.
Gardening in Eden: Seasons in a Suburban Garden
“Though an old man,” Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, “I am but a young gardener.” Every gardener is.
In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt’s small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from one’s hand, and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted cocktail nuts. We feel the oppressiveness of endless winter days, the magic of an old-fashioned snow day, the heady, healing qualities of wandering through a greenhouse on a frozen February afternoon, the restlessness of a gardener waiting for spring.
With a sense of wonder and humor on each page, Arthur Vanderbilt takes us along with him to discover that for those who wait, watch, and labor in the garden, it’s all happening right outside our windows.
