- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books (15 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0811824217
- ISBN-13: 978-0811824217
- Product Dimensions: 26.1 x 26 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,162,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Originally founded on French and Spanish traditions of landscaping, New Orleans gardens today are a stunning blend of native varieties and bold additions from wildly varied cultures and sensibilities. Fragrant gingers and night-blooming jasmine scent the air. Live oaks and sycamores canopy stately boulevards. Decadent nineteenth-century buildings provide an exquisite backdrop for exotic, profligate vegetation. Horticultural authors Lake Douglas and Jeannette Hardy, longtime New Orleans residents and gardeners, explore this rich history. They tour public gardens and open the doors to lovingly tended private paradises - balconies draped in vines spilling over wrought-iron railings, densely landscaped patios, and expansive mansion grounds. Richard Sexton's sumptuous photographs celebrate the many traditions and cultures interwoven in New Orleans' magnificent landscape heritage.
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Going beyond the touristed New Orleans, 24 April 2001
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This review is from: Gardens of New Orleans (Hardcover)
Here is that unusual New Orleans book, beautifully written by Jeannette Hardy and Lake Douglas, and sumptuously photographed by Richard Sexton, that journeys outside the heavily touristed French Quarter and into the neighborhoods that truly infuse the city with its unique spirit. French Quarter gardens are not neglected, of course, but the book is easily the best of its kind at revealing the entire far-flung city, its people and their lovely and sometimes idiosyncratic gardens.
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Can't wait to start on my own "New Orleans" garden, 27 July 2001
By Miss Priss "non-fiction lover" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gardens of New Orleans (Hardcover)
I bought this book hoping to get some ideas on how to make my backyard into a New Orleans garden oasis and this book delivered. Not only is it a helpful resource for gardeners (it has a chart of commonly used plants in New Orleans gardens), but it also is nice to just leaf through and look at the pictures. My only gripe is that there weren't enough gardens featured.
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For lovers of gardening- it captures the heart & imagination, 16 Mar 2004
By Darcy Gallouedec - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gardens of New Orleans (Hardcover)
I was fortunate enough to find this book in a wonderful little garden shop tucked away inside the French Quarter of New Orleans. If you've never visited and seen their charming style and beauty first hand, this book is filled with superb photographs that come to life, with a wealth of great information about the homes and gardens you really will feel like you're there. For any lover of gardening, New Orleans simply transcends conventional time and space, capturing all of the senses and inspiring the heart and the imagination like no place else in the world. . .from the petite cottages to the elaborate plantations, there is garden for every home and every occassion! Tres-magnifique!!!
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