Gardens Around the World: 365 Days

by Mick Hales

Book Overview

In this volume, 365 colour photographs present gardens from all across the world, including Britain, mainland Europe, the Far East, and the Americas.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810949806
• ISBN13: 9780810949805
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 744 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 9.5" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A beautiful garden for each day of the year

This book features lovely photographs of a wide variety of gardens from throughout the world -- one for every day of the year. The gardens vary quite a bit in their style, location and zone. The book is small -- 9.6 x 6.6 inches, but thick (2.1 inches) and heavy. Each two page spread is dated with a decription of the garden on the left page with the photograph on the right page. The book can serve as a perpetual calendar (as there are no years or days of the week, just months and days) with a different beautiful picture for each day or as an idea sourcebook for your own garden. Either way, the book is well worth the price given the large number of beautiful gardens that it features. I even discovered some public gardens of which I was unaware. So, the book can even serve as a guide to gardens (the public ones) that you might want to visit. This is a wonderful book for people who love gardens.

The Visual Poetry of the Garden

Photographer/naturalist/writer Mick Hales has created a book that visualizes not only the beauty but the imperative importance of gardens. He traveled throughout North America, Asia and Europe and not only found gardens of extraordinary beauty, but found those lovingly patient vistas from which we, the viewer, can be brought into an understanding and appreciation of the message of each garden. The photography is stunning, like paintings recreated by an artist's eye, but here the subject is captured without recreation: Hales' lens captures what is really there. Hales speaks to each photograph, each garden view, enhancing what we otherwise might miss from the one vantage given us. He has arranged the 365 gardens both alphabetically as to place and further defined the photographs by months of the year. Here are gardens from winter to fall: the flow is as magical as the qualities of nature. In his short but sensitive introduction to his portfolio he states: "As our society moves faster and faster, with technological advances each year, it is hard for us to keep our connection to the land. Keeping a garden is on answer to this loss - having one's hands in and smelling the soil. Watching plants grow, flower, and die back reminds us of our own humanity and the lives we have been given." And that sums it all! This is a MUST for gardeners, for naturalists, for dreamers. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, July 05

A beautiful garden for every day of the year

This is a lovely and unique book that features over 150 gardens throughout the world. Each double page spread corresponds with every day of the year (like a calendar), with a brief description of the garden on the left page and a photograph on the right page. Some gardens are featured on more than one page. Many of the gardens are world famous while others are more obscure. The size of the book is unique (7" high, 10" wide and 2 1/2" thick) and looks almost like a beautiful decorative box.