Gardens for the New Country Place: The Landscape Architecture of Ed…

Captures the bold, dramatic beauty of country gardens designed for extravagent entertaining and visual splendour. Featuring the work of noted landscape architects Edmund Hollander and Mary Ann Connelly, this volume presents panoramic and aerial views of gardens in the country and on the ocean, of negative-edged swimming pools that seem to extend into the horizon, and dense flower gardens. these landscape architects translated the owner's garden fantasies into a reality. Next, the reader is shown an array of expert strategies for choosing plants, hardscape materials and water features to create gardens of their own. pools, ponds, paths, gazebos, trellises and much more.