The California garden tour
Subtitle: the 50 best gardens to visit in the Golden State
By: Donald Olson
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781604697223
Subjects: Guidebooks; Gardens
Description: The 50 California gardens Olson profiles in this guide fall into four basic types: estate gardens that were once private and are now public, botanical gardens, parks, and art gardens. To set the context, he presents a brief history of gardening in California discussing native peoples; the mission era; Beaux-Arts, Spanish colonial revival, and the country place era; the Depression and the Works Progress Administration (WA); and postwar and midcentury modern gardens. He arranges the gardens geographically, first into north and south, then into smaller regions.   --Publisher's descripton.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: San Francisco & peninsula; title: East bay; title: Sonoma & vicinity; title: Central & north coast; title: Los Angeles & vicinity; title: Pasadena & vicinity; title: South coast; title: Santa Barbara & vicinity; title: Palm Springs & vicinity; title: San Diego & vicinity.