No comments about Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture).

1 comments about Reinventing the Garden: Chaumont--Global Inspirations from the Loire.

1. Reinventing The Garden: Chaumont - Global Inspirations From The Loire by gardening expert Louisa Jones magnificently showcases cutting-edge garden designs in the Loire valley in France. Outstanding designs drawn from a ten-year span are grouped together in six themes that reveal the thought and inspiration behind them. Additionally, concepts, techniques and materials of more than 36 main examples are discussed and illustrated. A superb addition to any dedicated gardener or landscape designer's reference shelf, Reinventing The Garden is enhanced with 229 beautiful color illustrations and a comprehensive reference section.

No comments about Making the Metropolitan Landscape: Design and Modernity in American Cities.

No comments about City Lights: Illuminating the American Night (Landscapes of the Night).

No comments about Blenheim: Landscape for a Palace.

2 comments about Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello.

1. I found the book to be quite intersting and a valuable resource for the gardener. Thomas Jefferson is well known for his gardening efforts, both as ornamental and practical for food stuffs.

   The book has excellent photographs of the gardens of Monticello as well as Jefferson's drawings of how he wanted to landscape the area of his "Little Mountain." There is great pride in the book to document over one hundred species of plants cultivated by Jefferson while living at Monticello.

   Jefferson was a champion of cultivating indigenous plant life to Virginia and that of North America, but he had plants comming from thoughout the world also.

   Cultivating a mountain top graden presented problems for Jefferson in both climate and the proper hydration of the plants themselves. Without all of the modern conviences that we have today, Jefferson managed to have some of the most beautiful gardens in Virginia.

   This is a must book if you are looking for gardening proportion and scale. As Jefferson said, "There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me." Well said...

   In the book you will find very good descriptions of the plants grown at Monticello, this is a must volume for reference.




2. This book includes color photographs of the current gardens at Monticello and black & white reproductions of Thomas Jefferson's own sketched plans for the gardens. There is an annotated list of the flowers and "woody ornamentals," such as roses and shrubs, grown by Jefferson. There are many excerpts from his writing and letters which give the reader a greater sense of Jefferson's broad intellect and love of nature as it relates to his gardens. I was hoping to find a list of flowers native to Virginia cultivated by Jefferson but, while the origins of many of the flowers are indicated, there is no separate list of the native plants as I had hoped.

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1 comments about The Low-Maintenance Garden: A Complete Guide to Designs, Plants and Techniques for Easy-care Gardens.

1. If you want to work in the yard or garden, but don't have time... OR even if you don't want to work in the yard or garden and enjoy the simply pleasures of a well landscaped yard... this book is for you. There are ideas and designs for walkways, small ponds, fountains, rasied beds, and seating areas. Picking the right plants is most important and this book helps to narrow the choices. There is also a section on how to minimize your chores. And of course there are some photos that help you get the creative juices going for ideas on everything from Japanese Gardens to Urban Jungles... Good Resource!

1 comments about Private Gardens of the Fashion World.

1. Fashion designers take their inspiration from many sources, and this book shows how they find designs and ideas in their own private gardens. The pictures in this book were really what caught my eye, they are absolutely gorgeous. Lush foliage, bright and exotic flowers, country gardens, it is all in this book. I always find it interesting to see where designers are "coming from", and this book did a great job of showing how designers can take inspiration from what is around them, and also how their design ideas take hold not just in clothes, but in their own private world as well. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a unique look at fashion, and how fashion intertwines with real life and gardening.

1 comments about The City Beautiful Movement (Creating the North American Landscape).

1. Anyone who has ever wondered why our country is so ugly so often should take a look at 'The City Beautiful Movement.' Wilson shows, without annoying rhetoric, how planners of the 'City Practical' school unfairly put down the people responsible for the elements that even today represent the most human parts of our metropolitan areas.