The Secret Gardens of Georgetown: Behind the Walls of Washington's Most Historic Neighborhood

by Adrian Higgins

Book Overview

A writer for several garden magazines takes readers behind the walls of Washington's most historic neighborhood to offer a fascinating peek at the private gardens of some of the country's most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316360848
• ISBN13: 9780316360845
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

wonderful photos and unusually literate text

This has the wonderful photos we've come to expect from big, glossy garden books. But it also has an unusually literate text (from Brit-born Higgins, who writes regularly on gardens for the Washington Post) that makes the book of interest to out-of-Washington gardeners as well as those interested in Georgetown backyards. Higgins is also unusual in giving credit to the gardeners who do the upkeep on these gardens as well as the landscape architects who got big bucks for designing and installing them. One interesting note: one of the gardens belongs to Christopher Ogden, another to Pamela Harriman. Ogden, a Time magazine Washington correspondent, wrote a biography of the late Mrs. Harriman which she didn't much like. Higgins is soon to publish a guide to gardening in the Washington area which ought to be good.