| #431311 in Books | 2015-10-06 | 2015-10-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.28 x1.02 x9.41l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Describes 20 or so pleasant gardens, but no French-style embroidery parterres here.|By Bayard B.|Tells the stories of around 20 or so very pleasant gardens. All the photos are in color. These are not grand chateaus or villas as you might find in France or Italy. You won't find grand French-style embroidery parterres in this book.
It's a bit dispiriting to realize tha||"If ever there was a sign of how gardens can offer hope, it must be the ‘dazzling array of blooming borders’ developed in the 1930s at the notorious Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, where an inmate wrote that tilling and planting the hillside beca
From simple 18th- and early 19th-century gardens to the lavish estates of the Gilded Age, the gardens started by 1930s inmates at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay to the centuries-old camellias at Middleton Place near Charleston, South Carolina—Rescuing Eden celebrates the history of garden design in the United States, with 28 examples that have been saved by ardent conservationists and generous private owners, and opened to the public.
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You easily download any file type for your device.Rescuing Eden: Preserving America's Historic Gardens | Caroline Seebohm. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
