Green escapes. The guide to secret urban gardens

I quickly flipped through this book but wrote it down as a reference I should return to when I plan my travel. Each entry has a brief description and one photo, sometimes more. Although I try to see botanical gardens in cities that I visit, I've been to maybe a dozen of the 280+ gardens featured, bu Leggi tutto

This is not the type of book you start from the beginning and read straight through. It's an excellent book for skimming, as a coffee table conversation piece, or for consulting when planning to travel. It really made me think about the historic documentation of gardens and the difficulties there mu Leggi tutto