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Introduction

Prologue. The Lure of the Porch in Summer: Privacy and Pleasure

Chapter One. Landscape Architects and Designers

Designing Women: In-Depth View of Twentieth-Century Women Landscape Designers

Beatrix Farrand and The Bulletins of Reef Point Gardens

The Private World of a Great Gardener: Rachel Lambert Mellon

“Make the Land Work for You”: Russell Page in America

Profile of Dan Kiley

Grounded in History: Deborah Nevins's Landscapes

Private Visions: The Gardens of Michael Van Valkenburgh

A Cultivated Civilization: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon's Drawings of Classical Gardens

Planting Plastic: Martha Schwartz Looks to Art for Inspiration

Resurrection: The Built Landscapes of George Hargreaves

A Twinkling Terrace that Reaches for the Stars: Kathryn Gustafson in New York and France

Landform Future: Laurie Olin and the Integration of Architecture and Landscape

A Feminist View of Landscapes: A Partnership with Nature

Chapter Two. Parks and Public Places

A Bouquet of British Parks: Liverpool, Edinburgh, and London

Central Park's Bethesda Terrace and Its Restoration

Summer in Central Park

For This Movie, Step into the Garden

Rooftop Formal Gardens at Rockefeller Center

Hortus Conclusus: The Gardens at the Cloisters

The IBM Garden Plaza

A Crystal Palace: Final Portrait of the Palm House

Gardens Fit for a Queen

Hartford's 1896 Rose Garden, Whose Ancestors Were Born in France

2,700 Roses Re-create Old Garden: The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden

A Victorian Gem Restored: The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

A Centennial Bouquet: The Botanic Garden of Smith College, 1895-1995

The Rose Garden at the White House

A New Memorial Squanders a Sparkling Opportunity

The Green Gardens of Jerusalem: Parks, Squares, and Promenades

Garden Letter from Greece: The Agora

The Moonlight Garden at the Taj Mahal

A Rare Garden in Barbados: Andromeda Gardens

Along a Nature and Garden Trail in Bermuda

A Walk in the Park Around Jinji Lake

Chapter Three. American

The Poetics of the American Garden

1680 Formal Garden Discovered in the South

A Historic Colonial Plantation Recovered from the Rough

Fairsted: At Home with Frederick Law Olmsted

At Old Westbury, Gracious Gardens

Stately Views: A 1920s Garden Inspired by the Villa d'Este

Mediterranean Light: A Classic Italian Garden in California

Wethersfield: In the Style of an Italian Villa Garden

The American Academy in Rome

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: A Blend of Far Eastern and English Inspiration

Far East, Down East: A Classic Asian Landscape

A Cultivated Coast: The Garden at Somes Meadow

On Maine's Coast, Vistas Are Cast in Stone

Autumn in New England

Chapter Four. British

The Painted Garden: William Kent's Rousham

Painshill Park: Charles Hamilton's Folly Garden

The Waterways of Castle Howard

Reclaiming Noble Gardens of the Towy Valley

Classic Garden Tames a Fierce Welsh Crag: Powis Castle

Buckhurst Park: From Humphry Repton to Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll

Lanning Roper's English Gardens with a U.S. Flavor

Machine in the Garden: Charles Jencks's Garden of Scottish Worthies

Sitting in the Garden: A History

Chapter Five. French

The Gardens of Versailles

An Echo of a Memory: Recultivating the Tuileries

The Formal Farm: Pascal Cribier's Vision of Rural Geometry

The Désert de Retz: Cultural History Through Architecture

Chapter Six. Japanese

Autumn in Japan

Japanese Screens and the Gardens of Kyoto

Balancing Act: A Contemporary Garden for Kyoto's Oldest House

Tea and Empathy: The Japanese House, Shofuso, in Fairmount Park

Rice Paddy in the Sky: Rooftop Garden at the Mori Center

Plum Blossoms: The Third Friend of Winter

Chapter Seven. Flower Shows

Courson: French International Flower Sale

At Chelsea Flower Show: Gardens in Romantic Ruins

Free to Grow Bluebells in England: British Prisoners Win Gold Medal

A Garden Festival in Lausanne

Epilogue. A Winter Garden of Yellow

Afterword

John Dixon Hunt

Acknowledgments

Index

Photography Credits

Of Gardens

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