Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1694574 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Synopsis
Featuring the work of some of America's leading landscape designers and horticulturalists, this is a photographic record of many kinds of gardens in New York City. They range from Donald Trump's private roof-top garden and the Cherry Esplanade at the United Nations to a backyard garden in Queens and the Japanese Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. All five boroughs of the city are represented, and a map is provided to indicate the locations of those gardens which can be visited.

Customer Reviews

A celebration of the garden heritage in New York City
Remarks by Gregory Long, Presdent of The New York Botanical Garden, spoken at Rockefeller University in May, 1999. "This book is truly a relevation. Who knew until Mary Jane Pool and Betsy Pinover Schiff revealed it to us, that there were so many varied and significant gardens in New York City? Who would have figured that New York City is probably the gardening capital of the world? Who among us know that we possess such a vast network of important designed places out-of-doors? Of course our park system is loved, but our garden system is a new idea... Gardens in the City: New York in Bloom is a celebration of our garden heritage and tradition in New York City. There's never been such a compilation in our history, and now that we can see our tradition so clearly, we are proud of it indeed."