Book Reviews
A Bevy of Books
For me this past season has been one of the most challenging yet in the garden. Record heat…
December 23, 2016-
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Book Reviews, Landscape HistoryBook Review: Women Garden Designers: 1900 to the Present
This summer I picked up a copy of the book Thoughtful Gardening by Robin Lane Fox, gardening columnist for…
October 17, 2016 -
Book Reviews, New England GardensBook Review: Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White
In 1958 as her job as an editor at The New Yorker was coming to close, Katharine S. White…
August 11, 2016 -
Book Reviews, Landscape HistoryBook Review: All the Presidents’ Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses – How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell
If in this year of presidential politics you yearn for a different perspective on life in the White House,…
June 25, 2016 -
Book ReviewsBook Review: Oxford College Gardens
While staying in London last June I took the train to Oxford to visit the Botanic Garden. It had…
May 1, 2016 -
Book ReviewsBook Review: Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood by Judith Tankard & Martin Wood
Within the canon of landscape history a collection of gardens exists that has revolutionized the profession, shaping, and shaped…
February 14, 2016 -
Book ReviewsBook Review: The Good Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design
According to landscape architect Edmund Hollander, “a powerful landscape unfolds like a story” with a narrative of sequenced,…
December 9, 2015 -
Book Reviews, Landscape HistoryBook Review: A Natural History of English Gardening by Mark Laird
As every gardener is well aware despite careful and deliberate planning their success lies beyond their control, held hostage…
October 31, 2015 -
Book Reviews, GardensBook Review: HUMMELO: A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury
“In 1982 Piet and Anja and their two boys – Pieter, then aged nine, and Hugo, aged seven –…
June 14, 2015 -
Book Reviews, GardensBook Review: In & Out of Paris: Gardens of Secret Delights by Zahid Sardar with photographs by Marion Brenner
A collaboration between the design editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and a Berkeley-based photographer, In & Out of…
April 25, 2015
