Gardens Adirondack Style [Hardcover]

Janet Loughrey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 23, 2006

Garden photographer Janet Loughrey has covered the vast Adirondacks region to document how people have overcome the area's challenging mountain climate to create beautiful gardens for the past 150 years. Her profiles of contemporary gardeners and landscapers and their creations are supplemented with fascinating historic photos of the lavish landscaping of famed Adirondack-style estates such as Nirvana and the Knapp Estate and grand old hotel resorts such as Scaroon Manor and Sagamore.

Editorial Reviews

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After a career photographing America's most spectacular gardens for magazines, Loughrey's handsome volume of upstate New York gardens serves as a history of Adirondack landscapes as well as a visual record of their charms. Herbaceous borders, animal-shaped topiaries and heavily pruned English boxwoods typified gardens at the dawn of the twentieth century, when wealthy tourists flocked to the Adirondacks, hastening the development of grand hotels and an influx of the talented gardeners who created the immaculate gardens of the historic resorts around Lake George and the sprawling garden oases separating the Millionaire's Row mansions. Moving on to contemporary gardens, Loughrey shifts her focus to individual properties, including the short-seasoned vegetable gardens of the Lake Clear area, the North Country's daylily-rich summer retreats and Lake Placid's lush "Gold Medal Gardens." Loughrey offers detailed topiary information so home gardeners can replicate the dramatic results contained within these pages, and a thorough resource guide lists information on nurseries, garden clubs, resorts and landscape design services tailored to the New England gardening style. The book might offer enough escapism to satisfy gardeners unable to personally tour the world class gardens the book chronicles, and Loughrey's historical account of each property adds a rewarding counterpoint to this lavishly illustrated book.
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Review

"Loughrey has provided pretty much all you could ask for in a pictorial garden book. ... variety of gardens is impressive." -- Kirkus Reports

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Down East Books (February 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892726237
• ISBN-13: 978-0892726233
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,153,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just What You Want From a Garden Book, March 12, 2008

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PG "Cabin Fever" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gardens Adirondack Style (Hardcover)

This should be the primer for garden coffee-table books.

This book features gorgeous photos, a terrific representation of every area of the Adirondacks, interesting stories, and history on the gardens. I especially appreciated the background given for each garden, and the nice balance between historic gardens, personal gardens, and publics areas. I don't often rave, but this is just about everything I could want in a garden photo book.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well done and beautiful, July 22, 2005

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J. Clark (Vancouver, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gardens Adirondack Style (Hardcover)

Very beautiful and informative. Photo's are superb. Text is a well researched and fascinating history of gardens old and new. Keen gardener's eye and knowledge is evident throughout.

5.0 out of 5 stars Book, January 27, 2010

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This review is from: Gardens Adirondack Style (Hardcover)

A nice book filled with useful information. A perfect gift for a Master Gardener.