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The Garden Lover's Guide to the Northeast (Garden Lover's Guides to)
The Garden Lover's Guide to the Northeast - Garden Lover's Guides to Author:Paul Bennett Weekend gardeners, landscape professionals, and holiday travelers alike will discover new gardens to add to their list of favorites in our new series, the Garden Lover's Guides to the United States. This series combines practical touring information with extensive commentary about individual gardens and their heritage. First in the series, T... more »he Garden Lover's Guide to the Northeast covers the natural splendor of Acadia in Maine to the colonial gardens of George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia. This comprehensive and indispensable companion features: ** a beautifully photographed guide to 140 public and semi-private gardens across america ** clear, insightful writing by Landscape Architecture magazine senior writer Paul Bennett ** at-a-glance symbols denoting garden features and providing key facts for the visitor ** regional maps and directions to locate gardens, contact data, and admission fees ** nearby cultural sites of interest ** unknown garden treasures as well as the most famous gardens ** exquisitely painted three-dimensional garden plans for Longwood, Dumbarton Oaks, New York Botanical Garden, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Naumkeag, Strawberry Banke, and Winterthur ** coverage of Connecticut, Delaware, The District Of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Northern Virginia« less