Private edens
Subtitle: beautiful country gardens
By: Jack Staub ; photographs by Rob Cardillo
Contributors: Cardillo, Rob
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Layton, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781423621089
Subjects: Design; Gardens
Other titles: Beautiful country gardens
Description: "Garden design expert Jack Staub presents more than twenty beautiful and sumptuous private country gardens in Virginia, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts. From a romantic garden with cottagey plantings that pays homage to the best of English garden vernacular to a splendid Eden of Maryland countryside meets Himalayan serenity, these garden paradises stand alone on their own terms but offer us examples of what we can all achieve with a modicum of respect, partnership and imagination"--
Table of contents: title: Passion for plants, Marshall, VA; title: Feeding the soul, North Salem, NY; title: Water fall, Lakeville, CT; title: Stewards to history, Aldie, VA; title: One & one make one, Hudson, NY; title: An educator's eye, Southbury, CT; title: Living rooms, Potomac, MD; title: Sense of place, Chadds Ford, PA; title: A new perspective, New Preston, CT; title: Harmonious convergence, Cockeysville, MD; title: Divine inspiration, Washington, CT; title: Northern exposure, Canaan, NY; title: Grace land, Middleburg, VA; title: Revival meeting, Lewisboro, NY; title: An American story, Wrightstown, PA; title: Peapack, NJ; title: Manor reborn, Orange, VA; title: One woman, one wilderness, Bedford Hills, NY; title: Pilgrim's progress, Ashley Falls, MA.