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Southern California Gardens: An Illustrated History
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by Victoria Padilla
Sales Rank: 1578161
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$59.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 359 pages
Published by: Allen a Knoll Pubs; Limited edition December 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 096272971X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0962729713
Book Dimensions:
11 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 2.7 pounds
Los Angeles Times (Robert Smaus, Garden Editor)
Southern California Gardens is about those gardeners, growers, collectors, hunters, weeders, waterers, writers, even a few designers, who had dirt under their fingernails and a passion for plants. It is also a history of the plants themselves, and how they came to be in our gardens. I like this book and the people and plants in it. I wish I had known them all. (reprinted edition, originally published by University of California Press, 1961)
Publisher Description
For more than three decades, Victoria Padilla's Southern California Gardens has been the prime sourcebook for the horticulture historians and landscape preservationists of a singular geoclimatic region. The only work of its kind, this book is a comprehensive and engaging overview of more than two centuries of horticulture and the plants, people, nurseries, parks and gardens that contributed to the greening of a mild-climate coastal desert.
Appreciation for the value of this book has continued to grow during the last three decades, as enthusiasm for preserving private gardens and public parks has escalated. Southern California Gardens has served as a regional beacon during the emergence of a new discipline of scholarship: garden history. In recent years, the book has continued to guide intensive research and further garden documentation of a horticulturally fascinating place on the planet.
In Southern California Gardens, Padilla details the evolution of a regional landscape during the Spanish-mission. She continues her well-researched narrative through the twentieth-century development of estate gardens, city parks and commercial nurseries, describing the often-colorful people who pioneered the planning and planting of communities from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
This treasury of information has become an item of historic interest in its own right, and today it is even more sought after and needed than when it was first published.
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