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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 712.60979494 EAN: 9780789308818 ISBN: 0789308819 Label: Universe Publishing Manufacturer: Universe Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: September 13, 2003 Publisher: Universe Publishing Release Date: September 13, 2003 Studio: Universe Publishing Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This book offers a peek into the most beautiful private gardens of Los Angeles, one of the most verdant places on earth. Life here is meant to be lived outdoors and extravagantly, and these gardens reflect the town's larger-than-life personalities who take pride in their extraordinary garden sanctuaries. The sunny, warm climate in L.A. allows garden designers to unleash their most creative gardening fantasies, using plants collected from all over the world. The twenty-five gardens in the book illustrate the remarkable range of styles in the area, from Joni Mitchell's whimsical Bel-Air garden retreat to a garden of rare succulent plants at Jack LaLanne's former residence to Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen's Southern-style country hideaway. Featuring all-new photographs by Erica Lennard, coauthor of the bestselling book The Art of Doing Nothing, this escape book is sure to appeal to gardeners and star-gazers alike. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Beautiful and exoticIt is not often that one sees a beautiful book with such a varied array of garden designs and plant material. Of course, it is southern california where so many plant types can grow. L.A. is the perfect place to choose to illustrate how many things a garden can be. The gardens chosen range from the eclectic, to the architectural and come in many sizes. This is not a book that only heralds huge estates that are for most of us to enjoy only within the pages of a book. Rather, this book shows us ... Read More Rating:  - Secret and UglyI returned this book ~ the gardens selected are worth keeping secret. What a disappointment! Compared to the many beautiful books I have on gardens this is one of the worst, mainly because of the photos of the selected gardens. Rating:  - WOWDo you want to get back to the garden??Joni Mitchell's, Ted Dansen and Mary Steenburgen's, Director Nancy Meyers or Roland Emmerich's and all sorts of other Hollywood Luminaries under the eye of Photographer Erica Lennard, give us a lush voyage around the world in our favorite fantasy land, it is rare for one garden book to have such ,variety and give us so many ideas not to mention satisfy our curiosity. 
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