National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens

by Mary Zuazua Jenkins

Book Overview

The first comprehensive guide to outstanding gardens in America features all the where and when to go information to plan a visit. It tells readers what to see in various grand estate gardens, private... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792271521
• ISBN13: 9780792271529
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must for the garden-loving traveler.

"Small enough to travel with and detailed enough to learn from, this book is a must for the garden loving traveler". THE AMERICAN GARDENER

This is the best guide I've used and I've used many

I have visited hundreds of gardens on four continents and, at a national level, this guide is the most pleasing to the eye and has the best general descriptions of gardens and their histories that I have used. It is a powerful incentive to travel, and a most useful guide for finding the best public gardens on one's route.

I thought the book was wonderful

This book gave me mant great ideas on what to do to make my own garden look as nice as the ones in the pictures. They were all so colorful and beautiful. Anyone who is a gardener like myself would enjoy the book as much as i did.

A beautifully photographed comprehensive garden tour book

Now that gardening has become a major hobby of many Americans,Mary Zuazua Jenkins' beautifully photographed National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens is a must. How delightful when traveling in the U.S. or Canada to use this guide and spend an afternoon enjoying one of our finest garden spots. A great Xmas gift.

A great tour guide, a feast for the eyes and the imagination

One of the less-frequently mentioned reasons to tour this great country is the wonderful array of public gardens that are out there, waiting to unfold their splendors to the visitor. This handsomely photographed book should provide a lot of people with the excuse to get up and go. Too bad it doesn't include scratch and sniff features as the flowers depicted leave one wishing to satisfy the sense of smell as well. By the way, I was pleasantly surprised to find some gardens that I had not only never seen in a book before, but never even heard of. The editors are to be congratulated for their wide-ranging survey, but then I always expect that of the Smithsonian crew. WBM, Kent, CT