The Secret Gardens of Georgetown: Behind the Walls of Washington's Most Historic Neighborhood

Higgins, Adrian

ISBN 10: 0316360848 / ISBN 13: 9780316360845

Published by Little Brown & Co, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Gardens of Georgetown: Behind the Walls of Washington's Most Historic Neighborhood
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316360848
• ISBN 13: 9780316360845
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Briefly traces Georgetown's history, and shows and describes more than two dozen of its private gardens

Reviews

This is a beautiful team effort from an author and photographer recognized for their garden publications. A few of the Georgetown gardens featured are open to the public, but most are private and so will never be accessible to any but the favored few except through a book like this. And they are gardens well worth enjoying: each is the unique result of a love of gardens, expertise, hard work-and money. How many private gardens, for example, contain a mosaic by Marc Chagall? Featured are 27 gardens, with six to ten pages devoted to each. All the pictures are in glorious color, with both full-page panoramas and charming details. In prose as elegant as the pictures, Higgins gives the history of each house, tells something about its current owner, and credits the gardener or landscape architect responsible for the garden depicted. Recommended for gardening collections.
Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
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