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Item Details
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DESERT GARDENS
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| By: |
Gary Lyons, Melba Levick |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£32.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0847821870 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780847821877 |
| Publisher: |
RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2000 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
An inspirational, photographic tour of eighteen of the world's most beautiful public and private gardens is accompanied by valuable tips on the cacti, succulents, and other native flora suited to arid climates; information on the locations and visiting hours of public gardens; and a comprehensive l |
| Synopsis: |
Whether explosive displays of columnar cacti and brilliant wildflowers cascading down sun-bathed hillsides, meditative, botanical expressions of an organic, spine-laden geometry set within the quiet, earthen walls of a Spanish colonial mission, or twilit, verdant groves evoking a prelapsarian topographythis book captures the numinous light and beauty of 18 unique and rarely photographed private and public desert gardens between San Francisco and San Diego. Featuring the most important desert garden in the world at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, as well as the Moorten Botanical Gardens in Palm Springs, Balboa Park in San Diego, and many exquisite private gardens, the volume celebrates the sculpturesque charms of cacti, aloes, and other succulent flora that have adapted to the extreme conditions of the desert. Combining spectacular garden views in idyllic settings and ravishingly beautiful images of particular specimens, with text by the renowned desert garden expert Gary Lyons that balances the poetics and technical aspects of this garden genre, the book serves as an inspirational guide to these horticultural treasures. Because interest in desert gardens continues to grow dramatically, the book also includes the addresses and visiting hours of gardens open to the public, and provides a bibliography of what one needs to know in order to create one's own. |
| Illustrations: |
colour and b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Rizzoli International Publications |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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