Gardens of the Garden State

Berner, Nancy; Lowry, Susan

ISBN 10: 1580933742 / ISBN 13: 9781580933742

Edité par Monacelli Press, 2014

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G1580933742I3N10

Synopsis :

A glorious photographic tour of the public and private gardens of New Jersey―from historic formal gardens of former estates, to suburb gardens, horticulturists’ havens, and fresh takes on front yards.   The most densely populated state in the nation and one of the original thirteen, home to the largest public iris garden in the country, and the glacier-swept endpoint of the last Ice Age―for Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry, who look to gardens as an entry to the history and culture of a region, New Jersey presents an array of surprising diversity. Its temperate climate makes it possible to grow a wide range of plants, while its complex topography―ranging from mountains to rolling hills and flat basins, the scrubby Pine Barrens and the rich Coastal Plain―demands innovative approaches to design.   The twenty-eight selected gardens―from Skylands, with its specimen trees, woodland and rock gardens, and lilac collection close to the New York border, to the elegant formal gardens of Short Hills, Bernardsville, and Oldwick, to a wildlife garden filled with frogs and butterflies and a lighthouse garden near Cape May―illustrate the ways in which New Jersey’s long garden traditions are upheld to this day. Gemma and Andrew Ingalls’ stunning photographs bring out the manifold ways in which a garden might speak to us in its owner’s or designer’s voice, expressing a particular point of view.

À propos de l'auteur: Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry are a highly regarded garden writing team, successfully collaborating on the Garden Guide to New York City and Gardens of the Hudson Valley.
 
Gemma and Andrew Ingalls, of Ingalls Photography, are well-known garden and landscape photographers who have collaborated with many landscape architects and garden writers.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Gardens of the Garden State
Éditeur : Monacelli Press
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket