Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon

by Mac Griswold

Book Overview

For both gardeners and early American history buffs, this book documents the unknown George Washington: landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. 156 color photos. 30 illustrations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395929709
• ISBN13: 9780395929704
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The Garden of the Father of Our Country

This is an interesting and informative book about the gardens that George Washington spent 45 years planning and tending for his home, Mount Vernon. The stylish new photographs are supplemented by historic drawings, some from the archives of the museum. Various out-buildings are shown along with the landscape garden, kitchen garden, pleasure garden and a botanical garden where Washington experimented. In addition, there is a listing of Washington's trees and shrubs, eighteenth century flowers, bulbs and roses currently grown at Mount Vernon, and a list of what George Washington grew from seed. This a good reference for all interested in the history of gardens in America.

Beatiful and fascinating

This lovely book, full beatiful photographs is a must for any one interested in American history and garden history in general. In fact it gives us Americans a garden history (slavery excluded) to be as proud of as the British are of theirs. Lots of well researched interesting facts, useful advice, historical insight and pretty pictures make this book thoroughly enjoyable and I recomend it highly.