From Library Journal
Oversized and lavishly illustrated with 365 color photos, this book opens with an essay tracing the historical interest in tropical plants and in conservatories and glass houses. Royal and religious, private and public tropical gardens are discussed. A chapter on "Contemporary Gardens" profiles 14 gardens in Hawaii, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mauritius, and Sri Lanka. A chapter on garden features shows walks, statuary, lighting, and pools; a chapter on tropical plants gives botanical and common names plus color photos for approximately 100 plants. Not a guide to gardening like Myles Challis's The Exotic Garden (Trafalgar Square, 1989), this title is for special collections.
- Laura Lipton, Miller Horticulture Lib., SeattleCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Washington Post
In these magnificent tropical gardens we find a flamboyant exuberance that says in effect that the world is not a harsh wilderness to retreat from, but a luxuriant garden of endless extent, rich beyond even dreams, to be explored and reveled in.
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