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Private Gardens Of The Bay Area (Hardcover)
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Private Gardens Of The Bay Area (Hardcover)
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Seasoned garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner, along with
leading landscape photographer Marion Brenner, tour more than
thirty-five private gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area,
illuminating the unrivalled beauty of Northern California - the
breadth of the sky, the quality of the light, the sparkle of the
Bay, the shapes of the hills - that has beckoned landscape
designers and gardeners for generations. Organized geographically -
starting with the San Francisco Peninsula, moving north into San
Francisco itself, crossing the Bay into Berkeley and Oakland, and
finishing in Napa, Sonoma, and Marin - Private Gardens of the Bay
Area encompasses an extraordinary range of micro-climates that
foster the cultivation of an equally extraordinary range of plants.
The kaleidoscope of vigorous plants from five continents bursting
out of an Oakland front yard is one kind of garden, the clean-lined
contemporary composition of drought-tolerant natives and gravel is
another, and the garden tucked into the mountain landscape of oaks,
manzanitas, and ceanothus is yet another. This fascinating tour
includes gardens such as Green Gables, where the 1911 terraced
design by Greene & Greene is meticulously preserved; Big Swing,
with a world-renowned collection of salvias; a vertical garden on a
vertiginous site in San Francisco by Surfacedesign; and a romantic
landscape of lawns, perennial beds, and stately oaks owned by noted
collectors and gallerists Gretchen and John Berggruen. Lowry and
Berner describe the goals of each garden owner and the principles
behind the designs.
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