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Gardens
The American Woodland Garden
• Rick Darke
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 377 PAGES
A handsome celebration of garden design and eastern woodlands by horticulturist Rick Darke, featuring hundreds of color photographs, some guiding principals and a useful alphabetical plant list of mostly native plants for your garden.
(NAM10, $49.95) |
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The Art of Setting Stones & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
• Marc P. Keane
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 196 PAGES
In these lyrical essays Kyoto-resident and landscape architect Marc Peter Keane takes eight gardens of his adopted home as a point of departure for reflections on nature, religion and aesthetics. Keane is also the author of The Japanese Tea Garden.
(JPN124, $16.95) |
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Classic Savannah: History, Houses and Gardens
• William Robert Mitchell
• Van J. Martin
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1991 •
HARD COVER
• 144 PAGES
A quick tour of Savannah, focusing on its sumptuous architecture.
(USS269, $35.00) |
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Color for Adventurous Gardeners
• Jonathan Buckley
• Christopher Lloyd
NATURAL HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
Practical advice on how to maximize the impact of color in your garden. In 11 chapters organized by shade, Lloyd explains color rules and when to break them. Over 200 photos demonstrate Lloyd's technique.
(GRD08, $19.95) |
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The Complete Shade Gardener
• George Schenk
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 327 PAGES
A wise and witty guide to gardening beneath the trees. By no means complete (despite its title), the book is perhaps most useful in figuring out a garden design (or for plain good reading). With a well-considered annotated list of recommended plants, 13 color and 89 black-and-white photographs. Originally published in 1984.
(USA72, $22.95) |
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The Cook and the Gardener, A Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside
• Amanda Hesser
FOOD •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 632 PAGES
An American cook -- of all things -- at Chateau de Fey in Burgundy, the author records her recipes and growing fondness for Monsieur Milbert, the very French gardener, in this narrative cookbook. It includes 250 month-by-month recipes, which draw heavily on M. Milbert's garden, and some fine observations on local people and places. The chateau is owned by teacher and author Anne Willan.
(FRN85, $35.00) |
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The Doors of San Miguel De Allende
• Robert De Gast
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2000 •
HARD COVER
• 96 PAGES
A photographic tributes to the architecture of San Miguel de Allende. With a few pages introducing the region and 100 postcard-sized color photographs.
(MEX105, $19.95) |
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Down The Garden Path
• Beverley Nichols
NATURAL HISTORY •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 296 PAGES
A facsimile edition of Nichols' beloved classic, originally published in 1932. On its surface an account of creating a garden at Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it's an entertaining ode to the pleasures and perils of gardening. Nichols answers in splendid prose, rich in anecdote, the ageless question: Why Garden? Timber Press has also reissued The Merry Hall Trilogy and many of Nichols's other gardening books and lightly fictionalized novels (always as much about plants as people). He was a prolific writer and man-about-town (1898-1983).
(GBR598, $24.95) |
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The Explorer's Garden, Rare and Unusual Perennials
• Daniel Hinkley
• Roy Lancaster
NATURAL HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 380 PAGES
Legendary proprietor of Heronwood Nursery in the Pacific Northwest, author of its willfully eccentric catalogue and renowned plant-explorer, Daniel Hinkley introduces some of his remarkable finds in the Himalayas, Yunnan and other exotic locations around the world in this handsomely produced tour of his nursery and garden. With 250 color photographs and an introduction by fellow plant-explorer Roy Lancaster.
(NAT28, $24.95) |
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Fruitful Sites, Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China
• Craig Clunas
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
This book will appeal to serious students of garden history and landscape art. Written by an art historian who teaches at the University of Sussex, it's a study of Ming-era (1450-1650) gardens in the Jiangnan Valley of the Yangtze, especially in wealthy Suzhou and to a lesser extent in Hangzhou. With 48 illustrations.
(CHN175, $26.95) |
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Garden Masterclass
• John Brookes
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 352 PAGES
A visually striking, definitive book of garden design. Full color photographs and explanatory sketches will inspire even those not blessed with an eye for landscape design. With chapters on setting, shape, structure and contour, sheltered areas, water, plantings, entrance, surfaces and style.
(GRD07, $40.00) |
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Garden Open Tomorrow
• Beverley Nichols
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 275 PAGES
In this last book of his long gardening and writing career, Nichols reflects on nature's role as the ultimate gardener. Nichols' writing is full of wit, charm and many digressions including his thoughts on cats and plants as murder weapons.
(GRD03, $24.95) |
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The Garden Primer
• Barbara Damrosch
REFERENCE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 668 PAGES
Among the virtues of this sensible, exceedingly useful manual to garden planning and plant care are Damrosch's reassuring tone and humor. We turn to it for all our garden-related questions, from picking plants to compost, tools and pests. It's an excellent reference, for both the budding garden designer and the practiced hand.
(USA71, $18.95) |
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The Garden Through the Year
• Fred Whitsey
• Graham Stuart Thomas
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
A month-by-month guide to gardening that weaves practical advice on plant introduction with Thomas' own thoughts on the craft.
(GRD06, $49.95) |
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Gardens in China
• Peter Valder
NATURAL HISTORY •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 400 PAGES
A gorgeous book featuring over 500 color photographs of Chinese gardens in 11 provinces. The Australian horticulturalist Peter Valder first traveled to China in 1980, his imagination fired by 19th-century plant hunters' accounts of adventure. He discusses gardening in Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, as well as on Hainan island.
(CHN176, $59.95) |
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Gardens of Historic Charleston
• James R. Cothran
NATURAL HISTORY •
1995 •
HARD COVER
• 177 PAGES
A photographic tour of Charleston's most treasured gardens, as well as a history of gardening in the city since colonial times.
(USS309, $39.95) |
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The Gardens of Japan
• Teiji Itoh
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1998 •
HARD COVER
• 244 PAGES
A beautifully illustrated overview of the history and tradition of Japanese gardens featuring 75 color photographs, accompanying essays by professor Itoh (with Donald Richie) and a guide to 50 of Japan's best-known gardens.
(JPN38, $60.00) |
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Gardens of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley
• William M. Klein
• Derek Fell
NATURAL HISTORY •
1995 •
HARD COVER
• 320 PAGES
Beautiful color photographs capture the stunning gardens of southeastern Pennsylvania, featuring various locations in and around Philadelphia, including the Brandywine River Conservancy Museum, Longwood Gardens, and Winterthur.
(USE96, $40.00) |
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Gardens of the Roman World
• Patrick Bowe
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 169 PAGES
Magnificently illustrated, this book describes the variety of Roman gardens, from the humblest to the most ornate, including the gardens of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Pompeii and Herculaneum. With 197 color photographs and a lively discussion of the influence of Roman gardens through Arabic, medieval, and Renaissance gardens to today.
(GRD22, $50.00) |
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Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palace of Islamic Spain
• D. Fairchild Ruggles
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 264 PAGES
Spain's Moorish legacy is nowhere more evident than in its graceful Islamic architecture and sumptuous gardens. Featuring color photographs and black and white illustrations, this scholarly book offers a critical assessment of the gardens and their meaning in the Spanish landscape throughout history.
(SPN170, $43.95) |
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A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto
• Marc Treib
• Ron Herman
GUIDEBOOK •
2004 •
PAPER
• 202 PAGES
Treib, a professor of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, covers 52 gardens in this convenient guide. With a history and overview, visitor information and succinct commentary. Organized geographically, each of the featured gardens gets several pages with special features, practical information, history, comments and several black-and-white photographs.
(JPN07, $22.00) |
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Henry F. Du Pont and Winterthur
• Ruth Lord
• R.W. Lewis
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 300 PAGES
Written by Henry F. Du Pont's daughter, Ruth Lord, this memoir describes the Du Pont family's legacy and their beloved home, Winterthur. Drawing from a vast family archive, Lord vividly paints portraits of her father, mother and aunt Louise Crowninshield and recalls growing up in this prominent family. Includes genealogical charts and bibliography.
(USE95, $29.95) |
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The House by the Sea, A Journal
• May Sarton
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
One of many journals by May Sarton, who moved from New Hampshire to live alone in a house on the seacoast of Maine. Sarton, a member of the Bloomsbury group, writes beautifully on the topics of aging, solitude, nature, gardening, food, relationships, and of course, on life in coastal Maine.
(USE61, $21.00) |
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A House in Sicily
• Daphne Phelps
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
An old-fashioned memoir of life at Casa Cuseni, the pensione and garden in Taormina run by the indomitable Daphne Phelps, which has been a sanctuary for Tennessee Williams, Betrand Russell and other guests, famous and infamous, since 1947.
(ITL148, $16.95) |
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Italian Villas and Their Gardens
• Edith Wharton
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2008 •
HARD COVER
• 284 PAGES
A facsimile edition of Wharton's witty, astute essays on the history and pleasures of Italy's famous villas, first published in 1904. With the original full-page illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, the book, a classic, covers 80 villas and gardens, including Boboli Garden, Villa Corsini and Villa Borghese.
(ITL91, $35.00) |
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Japanese Garden Design
• Marc P. Keane
• Haruzo Ohashi
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 184 PAGES
An illustrated introduction to the aesthetics and meanings of Japanese gardens. It relates the social, religious and historical contexts to landscape and garden design. With chapters on the origins of the Japanese garden, gardens of Heian aristocrats, gardens of Zen Buddhism, tea gardens, Tsuba gardens and Edo stroll gardens. The author is a landscape architect and garden designer living in Japan.
(JPN52, $30.00) |
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Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden
• Emily Whaley
• William Baldwin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1998 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
The thoughts and reflections of 85-year-old Mrs. Emily Whaley, a giant in the Charleston gardening community -- and owner of one of the most visited private gardens in America. William Baldwin conducts the interview, chock full of gardening tips, recipes and ruminations on southern life.
(USS311, $15.99) |
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My Favorite Plant, Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
• Jamaica Kincaid
ANTHOLOGY •
1998 •
HARD COVER
• 329 PAGES
An anthology of essays on plants and gardening from contemporary authors as well as luminaries of the past. Compiled by Caribbean writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid, this eclectic mix of pieces shares a common passion for the flora of the world. This handsome, little book features selections by (among many others) D.H. Lawrence, Colette, William Carlos Williams, as well as Czech playwright Karol Capek and editor of "Horticulture" magazine Graham Thomas.
(GEN126, $20.00) |
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Nantucket, Gardens and Homes
• Taylor Lewis
• Virginia Heard
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1990 •
HARD COVER
• 230 PAGES
This collection of color photographs portrays the landscapes and classic houses of the island, most dating back to the 18h and 19th centuries.
(USE264, $50.00) |
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The Secret Garden
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Tasha Tudor
LITERATURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 358 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Sure to be listed among the favorites of most young girls, this is the enduring children's classic about a magical garden hidden on a staid country estate in Yorkshire. An engrossing story about the redemptive power of nature and a nice introduction to allegory for the young, literary minded, it's been popular with every generation since its publication over 80 years ago.
(GBR391, $16.00) |
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Shovel It, Nature's Health Plan
• Eva Shaw
SCIENCE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Self-help through gardening.
(GEN231, $15.95) |
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Tales of the Rose Tree, Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World
• Jane Brown
NATURAL HISTORY •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 320 PAGES
An English garden writer, Brown offers an entertaining, learned whirlwind tour through the social, commercial and botanical history of the much-loved ornamental, including a roundup of early collecting forays into Asia and the Himalayas.
(GEN372, $35.00) |
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