Customer Reviews

Great Gardens in Small Spaces: California Havens

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The photos in this book were not very crisp and there was not much information identifying what was in the photo. The text about each garden was not very helpful either. Photos and text were overall not very inspiring.

I have had this book for many years. I consult it so frequently that the pages are falling apart. I love the fact that each garden shows what is possible when space and other elements are "challenging." There is enough variety in the landscape to cover a wide number of situations.

Because of this book, I made up my mind that I would always get gardening books from Rizzoli. I used to get gardening books from Timber Press, but was so frustrated by the writing, which wasn't very good.

Every time I look at GREAT GARDENS IN SMALL SPACES, I find yet more details (yes, even in the photographs) which escaped me before. The book is about idiosyncracy and imagination. I love it. It freed me from thinking only one way about gardens.

I also appreciate that the gardens are all in California, where I live. I often buy gardening books and am frustrated because only a handful of examples end up being from California gardens...

I agree with K., the printing quality of the photos was very poor. Although the gardens were beautiful and the ideas helpful, they looked washed out and, therefore, did not let the viewer 'feel' as if you were in the garden. Very high priced for the quality, I'm sorry to say. What a waste of good photography!