Garden lovers and discriminating travelers will relish this tour of the most beautiful and interesting gardens around the world. Succinct descriptions with more than 800 stunning color photos showcase the creations of the world's outstanding landscape gardeners, architects, and garden designers.
1001 Natural Wonders You Must See Before You Die, Michael Bright, 2005. 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, Stephen Farthing, 2006. 1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die, Tom Moon, 2008. 1001 Things You Should Know Before You ...
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Journalist Catherine Price travels the globe for stories of misadventure to which any seasoned traveler can relate—including guest entries from writers such as Nicholas Kristof, Mary Roach, Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit, and A. J. ...
This one, interestingly, was suggested not by us but by the town hall themselves. Ostensibly, they approached us with this idea because the global recession had hit Spain particularly badly and that's what Andalusia was now looking for: ...
While on holiday in Australia I was taking an early morning walk down a slope covered with dew-wet grass when I ... fact that the garden at Old Nectar is included in a recently published book, 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die.
This book traces the history of garden visitation and examines tourist motivations to visit gardens.
The Practical Rock & Water Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide from Planning and Construction to Plants and Planting. Anness Publishing Limited, London. Thomas, G. S. 1989. The Rock Garden and its Plants: from Grotto to Alpine House.
1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series. Stein, Sarah. 1993. Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of our own Backyards. New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. Tallamy, Douglas W. 2007.
From André Le Nôtre in seventeenth-century France, who drew on his training as an architect and hydraulic engineer to bring the topiary form to Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, to the work of High Line and Lurie Garden designer Piet Oudolf ...
The cat is giving me the big brush-off: she's gone next door to be with Steve again. Not that I mind, though I would like to know how I have fallen short? She's had my chair, the one we cushioned high for you, before you went into your ...