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Gardens of Colombia [Hardcover]

Benjamin Villegas (Author), Claudia Uribe (Photographer), Andrew Reid (Translator)
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November 1, 1996
A by-product of the country’s climate diversity, gardens of Colombia are beautiful expressions of natural art. Beautiful photography and texts educate on natural plant species, their usage, meaning, location, and history.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

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Unlike architecture, sculpture or painting, the art of gardening produces living works that grow, blossom, change, and fade. As such, the garden could be considered the supreme work of art, and indeed it has been so in all civilizations. A garden on any scale enhances the architecture it surrounds. What would Versailles have been without its spectacular gardens and their orderly vistas, or the great country houses in England without the eighteenth-century landscape designers? Likewise it is hard to imagine rural or urban houses in Colombia without their planned patios and courtyards.

The jagged geography of Colombia divides it into several contrasting regions: the Caribbean coast, Antioquia, Santander, Cundinamarca and Boyacá, the Cauca valley, and the plains of the Llanos, to mention a few. The climates and flora of these areas are markedly different, but their inhabitants share in common love for plants and a keen interest in gardening. Long before there were professional gardeners and landscape designers, all Colombians, from the wealthy hacendados to the modest campesinos, devised and planted their own gardens, according to personal taste and economic limitations.

A delightful eclecticism is captured in these pages in hundreds of photographs of every type of garden from extravagant parks to minute flowered niches. Experimentation is commonplace; each journey and Sunday excursion brings home additional plants. With the added factor of unpredictable rainfalls and prolonged droughts, most Colombian gardens are aesthetic and horticultural laboratories.

In the course of compiling the photographic material for this book, it proved impossible to include all gardens worthy of presentation, nor could all the gardens featured here be photographed at the peak of their splendor. Nevertheless, the attentive reader will be able to enjoy an impressive range of plants, color, composition and integration of cultivation with the natural landscape, which, in the absence of a great classical tradition, make up the particular charm of the Colombian garden.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Villegas Editores; 1st edition (November 1, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 958939311X
  • ISBN-13: 978-9589393116
  • Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 10 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.6 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: #2,299,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtaking Garden Splendor, November 23, 2002
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Bert Ruiz "Author" (Pleasantville, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This book displays the manicured gardens of the privileged and the magnificent natural beauty of simple country farm houses. It also includes outstanding photographs of titan trees and lush tropical vegetation. However, a special quality of this book is that it captures the careful planning of home and garden in Colombia. Some of the gardens in "Gardens of Colombia" are very old and offer wonderful views of mature walkways, paths and streams. My favorite pages are those that show unique Colombian courtyard gardens. In short, this Villegas editores publication is a paradise of garden landscapes and a perfect coffee table book.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent photography-an eye-opner, December 24, 1998
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This book captures the true essence of Colombia. Too many people in the U.S. consider this beatiful country to be synonymous with drug trafficking. Definitely worth a look
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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful, January 31, 2003
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garten (Österreich) - See all my reviews
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I love this book. The fotos are exellent and the quality of print is good too. I also liked Alta Colombia.
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