The Golden Age of American Gardens

The Golden Age of American Gardens
Author: Mac K. Griswold
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: OCLC:1341890608

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The Golden Age of American Gardens

The Golden Age of American Gardens
Author: Mac Griswold,Eleanor Weller,Helen E. Rollins
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1991-09-30
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: UOM:39015025190797

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An engaging tribute to America's grand era of private estate gardens and their illustrious owners, this book sweeps across the country to present over 500 of the nation's most exquisite gardens and the people who built them. In addition to a wealth of horticultural details, we learn of the garden-maker's flamboyant private and public lives--of the gossip, parties, dreams, politics, and economic one-upmanship of the period. 280 illustrations, 130 in full color.

Ellen Shipman and the American Garden

Ellen Shipman and the American Garden
Author: Judith B. Tankard
Publsiher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780820352084

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Describes Shipman's remarkable life and fifty of her major works, including the Stan Hywet Gardens in Akron, Ohio; Longue Vue Gardens in New Orleans; and Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. Richly illustrated, this expanded edition reveals her ability to combine plants for dramatic impact and create spaces of the utmost intimacy.

Foreign Trends in American Gardens

Foreign Trends in American Gardens
Author: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publsiher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-02-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813939148

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Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the essence of American gardens defies simple definition. Examining the translation, imitation, adaptation, and naturalization of stylistic trends and horticultural specimens into American gardens, the book also dwells on the juxtaposition of the foreign and the native. The volume’s contributors consider the experiences both of immigrants, who contributed through their writing, planting, and design efforts to enhance the character of regional gardens, and of Americans, who traveled abroad and brought back with them a passion for naturalizing exotics for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. The complexity of American gardens—their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values—is also their most distinctive characteristic.

The Golden Age of the Garden

The Golden Age of the Garden
Author: Claire Cock-Starkey
Publsiher: Elliott & Thompson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-02
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1783963204

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The relationship between England and its gardens might be described as a love affair; gardening is a national passion, rooted in history. The e18th century is often called the Golden Age of English gardening; as the fashion for formal pleasure grounds for the wealthy faded, a new era began, filled with picturesque vistas inspired by nature. Charting the transformation in English landscapes through the 18th and 19th centuries, The Golden Age of the Garden brings the voices of the past alive in newspaper reports, letters, diaries, books, essays and travelogues, offering contemporary gardening advice, principles of design, reflections on nature, landscape and plants, and a unique perspective on the origins of the English fascination with gardens. Exploring the different styles, techniques and innovations, and the creation of many of the stunning spaces that visitors still flock to see today, this is an evocative and rewarding collection for all gardeners and garden-lovers seeking insight, ideas and surprises.

The Once Future Gardener

The Once   Future Gardener
Author: Virginia Tuttle Clayton
Publsiher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2000
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1567921027

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The first four decades of this century provided the average American with the best magazines published in this country, as well as our most distinguished garden writing. The first national medium of mass communication, these journals had a formative influence on American culture. Many of their garden articles were by authors we recognize today as singularly fascinating voices: Louise Beebe Wilder, Grace Tabor, Fletcher Steele, Wilhelm Miller, and Mrs. Francis King. But some of the best were by amateurs who wrote about their gardens with wonderful enthusiasm and intelligence while earning their livings in other professions -- as artists, librarians, drama critics, dieticians, college professors, and clergymen.

Historic Residential Suburbs

Historic Residential Suburbs
Author: David L. Ames,Linda Flint McClelland
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: MINN:31951D02106921U

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Women in Landscape Architecture

Women in Landscape Architecture
Author: Louise A. Mozingo,Linda Jewell
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780786487332

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While many fields struggle to specify feminine contributions, the work of women has always played a fundamental role in American landscape architecture. Women claim responsibility for many landscape types now taken for granted, including community gardens, playgrounds, and streetscapes. This collection of essays by leaders in the discipline addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscapes. It highlights women's relation to landscape architecture, presents the professional efforts of women in the landscape realm, examines both the perception and experience of landscapes by women, and speculates on ways to re-imagine gender and the landscape.