Exploring Gardens & Green Spaces: From Connecticut to the Delaware Valley

W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very good condition, clean, unread. Nestled all along the northeast corridor, a profusion of horticultural gems and designed landscapes beckons visitors, from celebrated formal parks, estates, and arboretums to less familiarand often hard to find-gardens. This unique guidebook features 148 of them, providing readers with an incomparable resource for locating and exploring the green spacesmany with historic homes at their centerof the region. Whether large, sumptuous, and impressively maintained, or modest in size, budget, and staff, all have distinctive historical, artistic, and horticultural offerings that make them well worth a trip. Mt. Cuba Center and Winterthur in Delaware, Longwood Gardens in southeastern Pennsylvania, Grounds For Sculpture and the Leonard J. Buck Garden in New Jersey, the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden on Long Island, Stonecrop Gardens and Innisfree in the Hudson Valley, and Elizabeth Park and Hollister House in Connecticut are just some of the great gardens highlighted. Featuring more than three hundred color photographs and twenty-nine maps, with a fund of practical information for each entryincluding trans- portation, nearby eateries, and other sites of interestExploring Gardens & Green Spaces is a veritable tour guide at your fingertips, showcasing an array of gardens that await discovery. MAGDA SALVESEN, curator of the Jon Schueler Estate, is a garden and art historian and independent lecturer who has taught at the New York Botanical Gardens, the New School, and New York University. Her publications include Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust and Jon Schueler: A Painter's Life, both with coeditor Diane Cousineau,