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Susan Lowry
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R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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Susan Lowry
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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Ping (Paperback)
Susan Lowry
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Tucked inside venerable museums, perched on rooftops, concealed
behind sleek midtown facades, and waiting beyond unassuming gates
you may have passed a hundred times, if you know where to look,
remarkable gardens welcome visitors in almost every corner of New
York City. From the windy bluffs of The Heather Garden in Fort
Tryon Park to the bold, contemporary Gantry Plaza State Park in
Hunters Point, Queens, to the innovative, recently-opened High
Line, this pocket-sized guide tells the stories of more than 100
gardens in New York City's boroughs. In addition to presenting the
flora and fauna of New York's urban fabric, it also chronicles the
history, events, and personalities behind the green spaces visited
by generations of New Yorkers. More than 50 color photos showcase
the gardens, with each garden entry offering complete visitor
information, clearly-labeled maps of each borough or region, and
lively anecdotes sprinkled throughout. Praise for the First
Edition: "[A] beautiful and instructive guide to 100 gardens (the
number du jour) in the five boroughs, as delightful as it is
petite." -Verlyn Klinkenborg "Find a green oasis near you in the
new Garden Guide: New York City . . . The beautifully photographed,
pocket-sized book covers more than 100 public gardens . . . these
horticultural escapes . . . will make you breathe a little easier."
-Time Out New York "[This] guide can be used to find a refuge from
the concrete . . . [and] help New Yorkers find the riches that are
theirs in this great city." -Urban Outdoors
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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