Rescuing Eden
Subtitle: preserving America's historic gardens
By: photographs by Curtice Taylor ; text by Caroline Seebohm
Contributors: Taylor, Curtice, photographer
Publisher: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781580934084
Subjects: Conservation and restoration; Historic gardens; Botanical gardens
Description: Each garden has been specially photographed by noted landscape and garden photographer Curtice Taylor, and introduced with authoritative and engaging text from design historian Caroline Seebohm, encouraging readers to appreciate the landscapes that serve not only as windows on American history, but living, flourishing pleasure grounds for botanists, horticulturalists, and nature lovers throughout the United States.
Table of contents: title: 1740s-1890s : Middleton Place, Charleston, South Carolina ; Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; William Paca House and Garden, Annapolis, Maryland ; Barnsley Gardens, Adairsville, Georgia ; Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire ; Blithwold Gardens, Bristol, Rhode Island; title: 1900s-1930s : Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut ; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida ; Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, Detroit, Michigan ; The Fells, Newbury, New Hampshire ; Untermyer Park and Gardens, Yonkers, New York ; Filoli, Woodside, California ; Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, New Jersey ; Historic Deepwood Estate and Gaiety Hollow, Salem, Oregon ; The Kampong, Miami, Florida ; The Gardens of Alcatraz, San Francisco, California ; Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, New York ; Anne Spencer Garden, Lynchburg, Virginia ; Ladew Topiary Gardens, Monkton, Maryland; title: 1940s-1990s : Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, Crestwood, Kentucky ; Lotusland, Santa Barbara, California ; Garland Farm, Bar Harbor, Maine ; Madoo Garden, Sagaponack, New York ; Peckerwood Garden, Hempstead, Texas ; Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden, Bishopville, South Carolina ; Hollister House Garden, Washington, Connecticut ; Montrose, Hillsborough, North Carolina ; Charles Richards Garden, Great Wass Island, Maine; title: A life in the garden; title: Gardens to visit.