Gardens Adirondack Style
Product Description
Garden photographer Janet Loughrey has covered the vast Adirondack region to document how people have overcome the area’s challenging mountain climate to create beautiful gardens for the past 150 years. Her profiles of contemporary gardeners and landscapers and their creations are supplimented with fascinating historic photos of the lavish landscaping of famed Adirondack-style estates such as Nirvana and the Knapp Estate and grand old hotel resorts such as Scaroon Manor and Sagamore.
Other books have been published about the Adirondack rustic sytle of architecture and decoration, about the grand estates and hotels of the Adirondacks’ Golden Age, and about the natural beauties of the region, but Janet Loughrey’s is the first book to focus on the gardens of this challenging northern region. 175 Pages. Hardcover. 2005.
Other books have been published about the Adirondack rustic sytle of architecture and decoration, about the grand estates and hotels of the Adirondacks’ Golden Age, and about the natural beauties of the region, but Janet Loughrey’s is the first book to focus on the gardens of this challenging northern region. 175 Pages. Hardcover. 2005.
