The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx
Contributors: Roberto B. Marx (Foreword)
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780881921601
Subjects: Garden design & planning; General; Gardening; Gardening / Horticulture; Gardening/Plants; Landscape; Burle Marx, Roberto; GARDENS_BRAZIL; Gardening / Regional; LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE_BRAZIL; Biography; Brazil; Gardens; Landscape architects
First sentence: Brazil. The name brings to mind a remarkable mosaic of riches to be found in this enormous country occupying half of South America and as large as Europe: magnificent beaches; tropical palms; silvery Embauba (Cecropia) trees rising above the vast sea of green forests covering the Amazon basin and its surrounding mountains; the sharply divided confluence of the clay-yellow waters of the Solimoes and the blackish River Negro as they meet to join the Amazon; great stretches of tawny grasslands; thorny trees; huge, black, granite boulders speckled with the rosettes of bromeliads, plants requiring little but the water collected at their hearts; endless fields of grass-green sugarcane and the vast, hidden treasures of the earth-the crystal, topaz, from smoky brown to glorious apricot, clear blue aquamarine and rich amethyst.