Download or read book The Garden Club of America written by William Seale and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards. In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United States signed an agreement to form the Garden Guild. The Garden Guild would later become the Garden Club of America (GCA), now celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013. GCA is a volunteer nonprofit organization comprised of 200 member clubs and approximately 18,000 members throughout the country. Comprised of all women, GCA has emerged as a national leader in the fields of horticulture, conservation, and civic improvement. As an example, in 1930, GCA was a key force in preserving the redwood forests of California, helping to create national awareness for the need to preserve these forests, along with contributing funds to purchase land on which they stood. The Garden Club of America Grove and the virgin forest tract of Canoe Creek contain some of the finest specimens of the redwood forests. The Garden Club of America is a centennial celebration of strong women who nurtured the country, helped spread the good word of gardening, and continue to plant seeds of awareness.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Garden Club of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gardens Private Personal written by Nancy D'Oench and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos of more than 90 exquisite gardens from around the United States are organized according to parts of the garden--entryways, herbaceous borders, water features, hedges, etc.--and are accompanied by insightful commentaries and extended captions. Quotations from the owners offer an additional source of inspiration to any garden lover.Abrams
Download or read book Plants that Merit Attention Trees written by Garden Club of America and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text highlight the landscaping of trees and shrubs.
Download or read book The Garden Club of America written by Ernestine Abercrombie Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1938* with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Garden Club of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unearthing The Secret Garden written by Marta McDowell and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.
Download or read book Historic Virginia Gardens written by Margaret Page Bemiss and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than seventy-five years, The Garden Club of Virginia has undertaken garden research and preservation work at numerous historic sites across the Old Dominion, restoring and creating beautiful landscapes for the education and enjoyment of all, from backyard gardeners to design professionals. Historic Virginia Gardens documents in breathtaking fashion this important contribution to the Commonwealth's botanical and architectural heritage. Picking up where an earlier volume, dedicated to the period from 1930 to 1975, left off, this new book brings the Club's work from the period 1975 to 2007 to life through a graceful and informative text by Margaret Page Bemiss, a host of historical and contemporary drawings, extensive native and heritage plant lists, and 125 splendid new color photographs from the award-winning garden photographer Roger Foley. The gardens highlighted here range in location from the Eastern Shore to Blacksburg, and date from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. Margaret Bemiss describes not only the preservation of the gardens, but also each place, its builder, and its historic context. Giving the reader a fuller understanding of why each particular garden or landscape was worth restoring or re-creating, Bemiss explains the site's significance, in Virginia's rich history as well as in the history of gardening and landscape design. In addition to Foley's photographs, each narrative is also accompanied by bird's-eye-view drawings and site plans for the gardens, along with working drawings of garden buildings, furniture, fences, and gates. Of particular interest to practicing gardeners and garden historians is the comprehensive list of native and imported plants that were utilized in the gardens. The significance of the projects, from George Washington's Mount Vernon and Gari Melcher's Belmont to the Prestons' frontier home in Blacksburg and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, make this book of interest not only to gardeners and landscape architects, but also to anyone with an interest in American history. Historic Virginia Gardens is sure to find a treasured place on the library shelf beside its predecessor, which was praised by the Virginian-Pilot as a "book [that] will please any gardener, be it a group restoring grounds around a shrine or a suburbanite pondering whether to plant phlox or periwinkle along the front walk."
Download or read book Gardening by the Book written by Arete Swartz Warren and published by Grolier Club. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lush volume celebrates the centenary of the Garden Club of America. Drawing on the Garden Club's little known but remarkable collection, the curators of the eponymous Grolier Club exhibition have assembled over a hundred works representing 400 years of botanical and gardening literature. Included are treatises on garden design and landscape architecture, botanical, and early photographic works on gardening, horticultural journals and dictionaries, works on the art of Japanese flower arranging, and fascinating early studies on indigenous flowers of the New World, from Hawaii to Colorado. A delight for the eye that will appeal to all lovers of the botanical.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Garden Club of America and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Garden Club of America written by William Seale and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards. In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United States signed an agreement to form the Garden Guild. The Garden Guild would later become the Garden Club of America (GCA), now celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013. GCA is a volunteer nonprofit organization comprised of 200 member clubs and approximately 18,000 members throughout the country. Comprised of all women, GCA has emerged as a national leader in the fields of horticulture, conservation, and civic improvement. As an example, in 1930, GCA was a key force in preserving the redwood forests of California, helping to create national awareness for the need to preserve these forests, along with contributing funds to purchase land on which they stood. The Garden Club of America Grove and the virgin forest tract of Canoe Creek contain some of the finest specimens of the redwood forests. The Garden Club of America is a centennial celebration of strong women who nurtured the country, helped spread the good word of gardening, and continue to plant seeds of awareness.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Garden Club of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Meeting written by Garden Club of America and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Garden Club of America 1918 1920 Vol 23 Classic Reprint written by Garden Club of America and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, 1918 1920, Vol. 23 Some of us have wild gardens that we think more lovely than any other type Of garden, but is it fair to procure this pleasure at the expense Of what has been given to the whole world to enjoy? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Listen to the Land written by LOUISE AGEE. WRINKLE and published by Design Books. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to the Landis an engaging, informative, and poignant memoir of a life spent tending one particular property, a woodland garden in Birmingham, Alabama. Louise Agee Wrinkle grew up on this land, returned to it in mid-life, and has, for more than 35 years, tended it with care and creativity, according to her philosophy of allowing the land to speak for itself.
Download or read book Conquer the Soil written by Abra Lee and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquer the Soil profiles 45 hidden figures of horticulture—the Black men and women whose accomplished careers in the plant world are little known or untold. Among them are Wormley Hughes, an enslaved African-American who was head gardener at Monticello and dug Jefferson’s grave; Annie Vann Reid, an ex-teacher turned entrepreneur in South Carolina who owned a five-acre greenhouse and nursery in the 1940s that sold millions of plants and seeds; and David August Williston, a graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American landscape architect, a student of Liberty Hyde Bailey, and the designer of the Tuskegee University campus. The lively text is enriched by illustrations of each individual, making this a beaituful package. In Conquer the Soil, Abra Lee--a rising star in the plant world--gives these women and men the spotlight they deserve and enriches our collective understanding of the history of horticulture.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Garden Club of America 1917 Classic Reprint written by Garden Club of America and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, 1917 Mrs. Scott's arrangement of potted plants was unusually pretty. The rock gardens were one of the attractive features of the New York Show and there were many exquisitely arranged private exhibits, of which there were few in Philadelphia. At neither show were any startling novelties shown, but both were most interesting. The New York exhibit was the larger and more elaborate. The attendance at both was very large, an evidence of the constantly increasing interest in gardens and gardening. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
