Great Gardens of America

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Great Gardens of America

October 26, 2011
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October 26, 2011
Submitted by amanda_harris
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A NEW BRITISH VIEW of American gardens, Great Gardens of America (Frances Lincoln, $50), takes off from the intriguing notion that there is such a thing as a uniquely American garden style. The American garden "celebrates the natural landscape by opening out to incorporate the surrounding wilderness," writes author Tim Richardson, a well-known British garden historian. This expansive, unbounded quality is the key difference, Richardson says, between American gardens and European ones, which are defined by a sense of enclosure, a shutting out of the world beyond. (This was a very reasonable response, he points out, to medieval security concerns.)

With abundant photographs by Andrea Jones, the book is an ambitious, wide-ranging survey. It presents 25 American gardens, private and public, spanning states and centuries -- most surrounded by nature in the raw...

To read more about Great Gardens of America and see more photos, go to my blog, casaCARA.

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