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Amazon / Colonial Williamsburg Foundation / Book
 Price: 273.70 $ |  | The long-awaited third edition of Allan Armitage’s masterpiece on garden perennials was released in April of 2008. Armitage’s extensive traveling, teaching and trialing experiences provide a depth of understanding of the best ornamental perennials for North American gardens unparalleled by any other garden writer. One of the most definitive and conclusive books written about perennials, the first edition was designated as one of the best 75 books written in the last 75 years by the American Hort ...
Amazon / Cool Springs Press / eBooks
Price: 67.99 $ |  | A rare and long out-of-print treasure of garden literature, Gardens of Colony and State returns in a special reprint edition. Widely considered the best reference on garden-making in the colonies and the Republic, the handsome two-volume set is a lasting record of American gardens and gardeners before 1840. The landmark publication traces the development of a uniquely American garden design, exploring early garden literature and its effect on colonial craftsmen, as well as pre-1800 account books ...
Amazon / University of Pennsylvania Press / Book
Price: 62.00 $ |  | An engaging tribute to Americas grand era of private estate gardens and their illustrious owners, this book sweeps across the country to present over 500 of the nations most exquisite gardens and the people who built them. In addition to a wealth of horticultural details, we learn of the garden-makers flamboyant private and public lives--of the gossip, parties, dreams, politics, and economic one-upmanship of the period. 280 illustrations, 130 in full color. ...
Amazon / David R. Godine / Book
Price: 57.21 $ |  | At the heart of every garden are the plants, which enhance our land and engage our souls. For gardeners, no matter how new or how advanced, whether we cultivate for ourselves or for landscaping clients, plants are the sine qua non. They intrigue us and inspire us. And the more we learn about them, the more they add to our pleasure in gardening. For all of these reasons, every gardener needs a good plant encyclopedia. And, as the only plant encyclopedia written exclusively for North American gard ...
Amazon / Houghton Mifflin / Book
Price: 55.60 $ |  | Edited and with an introduction by Sam Watters, American Gardens has more than 250 archival photographs and plans and an invaluable biography section profiling the schooling and projects of the landscape designers whose work is featured in the book. In a large landscape format, American Gardens captures estate gardens as they existed for one generation, a time when people had the land, the time, and the skill to fulfill the grandest gardening fantasies. ...
Amazon / Acanthus Press / Book
Price: 55.00 $ |  | Our Garden Lovers Guide series has been hailed by Garden Design as eminently practical and by Home as authoritative and indispensible. These three new volumes complete our survey of American gardens; together, the four books feature over 500 public gardens across the country. Each book is designed for readers to use as they travel through a state or region. Similar to our highly successful European garden guides, the U. S. guides are illustrated in full color with numerous photographic images an ...
Amazon / Princeton Architectural Press / Book
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Amazon / Literary Licensing, LLC / Book
Price: 43.34 $ | | | An engaging tribute to Americas grand era of private estate gardens and their illustrious owners, this book sweeps across the country to present over 500 of the nations most exquisite gardens and the people who built them. In addition to a wealth of horticultural details, we learn of the garden-makers flamboyant private and public lives--of the gossip, parties, dreams, politics, and economic one-upmanship of the period. 280 illustrations, 130 in full color. ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
Price: 41.99 $ |  | From the other side of the world to your own backyard, Ros brings the succulent vegetables of Asia into American gardens to help you grow bok choy, bamboo shoots, and many other Asian delicacies. From there, learn delicious, modern, easy recipes to make from the fruits of your Asian gardens. ...
Amazon / Periplus Editions / Book
Price: 38.74 $ |  | The crumbling, abandoned villas above Florence proved irresistible to an eccentric colony of late 19th-century English and American expatriates. This entertaining book features 20 of these characters and the unusual gardens they created. They include bereaved philosopher Charles Strong, whose Rockefeller in-laws financed his villa retreat; crossdressing English essayist Violet Paget; beautiful Serbian Princess Jeanne Ghika, who lived in seclusion with her American companion Miss Blood; and eccen ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 38.22 $ |  | Sweeping, voluptuous, and authoritative, Private Paradis e instantly joins an elite collection of great and inspiring garden design books. Charlotte Frieze presents forty-one cutting-edge gardens, all richly photographed and profusely illustrated, emphasizing design, climate, and horticulture. Overarching themes of Aqua, Arcadia, Bold Geometry, Color, Nightscapes, Oasis, Sanctuary, and Urban cogently frame chapters about the challenges presented by the land, the climate, and the client’s interes ...
Amazon / The Monacelli Press / Book
Price: 36.90 $ |  | The only comprehensive resource for home gardeners and commercial potato growers, The Complete Book of Potatoes has everything a gardener or commercial potato grower needs to successfully grow the best, disease-resistant potatoes for North American gardens. Includes practical as well as technical information about the potato plant, its origin, conventional and organic production techniques, pest management, and storage practices. The plant profiles include still life photographs of the exterior ...
Amazon / Timber Press / eBooks
Price: 34.95 $ |  | This photographic companion to Michael Dirrs groundbreaking book offers 921 beautiful photographs of virtually every type of hydrangea. Including the most up-to-date nomenclature for all species and cultivars pictured, the software includes unique sign-making features perfect for nursery use. The high-resolution photographs are printable in five sizes and can be grouped together for personal lists or note-taking. Identification quizzes allow any user to master hydrangea naming. ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 34.95 $ |  | Roses are the most popular plants in North American gardens, yet more cold-climate gardeners have trouble overwintering roses than any other flower. Through a decade of trial and error at his nursery in Canada, Douglas Green has developed a totally new method of growing roses, one that is guaranteed to revolutionize this popular hobby, making it a rewarding pleasure, not a frustrating chore. Where all previous rose guides have been based on methods developed by 18th- and 19th-cantury European ga ...
Amazon / Houghton Mifflin / Book
Price: 34.95 $ |
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