No comments about The Unknown World of the Mobile Home (Creating the North American Landscape).

1 comments about Secret Gardens of London.

1. Enhanced with 160 visually stunning color photographs by Mariane Majerus, Secret Gardens Of London by Caroline Clifton-Mogg is an informed and informative celebration of London's most magical, clandestine, and unique gardens. The diversity of spectacular flora is nothing short of incredible. Secret Gardens Of London wonderfully showcases the ingenuity of some of England's very best landscape designers and gardening experts. From roof and water gardens, to traditional English cottage gardens, to modern sculpture gardens, to the personal gardens of collectors, artists, and horticultural enthusiasts, Secret Gardens Of London is as much fun to browse through as it is inspiring for aspiring gardeners seeking ideas for their own domestic efforts. Enthusiastically recommended for personal, professional, and community library Gardening Reference collections.

1 comments about Garden Lighting.

1. At last, an up-to-date replacement for Ortho's 1984 "How to Design & Install Outdoor Lighting". This is a thorough overview of lighting techniques, system design and the variety of lamps and lampholders used in both line voltage and low voltage outdoor lighting. Despite the usual disclaimers (the Brits must be as litigious as Americans) about having only a qualified electrician install garden lighting there is useful information for the DIYer.

   This is not an installer's manual but it does provide sufficient information to enable one to grasp the essentials of lighting design's dependence on the proper lamp type as the key to success. After all, lighting fixtures are just lamp holders and the effect is in the lamp not in the fixture. Many well-photographed illustrations of lighting techniques are provided with explanatory captions and backed up with colored drawings to reveal detail. I was surprised to see charts of lamp types drawn out-of-scale but there were accompanying photographs to put them back in perspective. Credits were in source order so it is difficult to track a photo to its source i.e. if you want to know who was responsible for a photo on page 107 you have to scan the entire acknowledgements section. No equipment credits are given although some of the photos look like catalog pix and the experienced eye will detect products not currently available in the US. The book cover shown above is not the cover on the book I received which shows a rather pedestrian garden walkway with pagoda (!) lights and a faucet and coiled garden hose instead of the sumptuous Japonisme entry.

No comments about The Garden of Claude Monet: The Four Seasons of Giverny.

No comments about Urban Details Los Angeles : Streetlights.

No comments about The Garden at Chatsworth.

1 comments about The Garden Gate (Library of Garden Detail).

1. Because we have moved to a small Sierra town where we have a cottage garden as well as a quaint garden gate, rock walls and wire fence I found this book which is shy 100 pages to be visually appealing as well as helpful. The book is about 5X7 in size but the text and photographs are lucicous.

   The gate on page 60 is right out of one of my favorite books THE SECRET GARDEN. But the author begins her text by saying "Gates have many purposes-practical. romantic and ornamental.... And I think they also have a rich history. Personally I prefer the rock walled gardens of Ireland Scotland and England which often have quaint wooden gates.

1 comments about Reflections of the Spirit: Japanese Gardens in America.

1. Maggie Oster is one of the best kept secrets in the world of photography today. We share her wonder as she makes us stop and see the miracle of growing things, and the art created by a thoughtful mind and a patient hand. The gardens she shows us are some of the most magical places on earth, serene yet vibrant, still and quiet yet energized with life and promise. Don't treat this like a "coffee-table" book - give yourself over to her "magical mystery tour"!

1 comments about Golf Course Tree Management.

1. The book does not include any substantial information - only generalities. Doesn't get in depth and should not be considered a reference book. It does provide some useful information, but there are better choices.

No comments about Temples of delight: Stowe Landscape Gardens.