Ebook: Outstanding American gardens: a celebration. 25 years of the garden conservatory

The Garden Conservancy is celebrating their 25th anniversary with this beautifully illustrated book that documents a selection of the outstanding public and private gardens they have worked with since their founding in 1989. The book showcases eight gardens the conservancy has helped preserve and 43 of the more than 3,000 private gardens across the country that have been opened to the public through its Open Days Program. The private gardens cover a wide variety of regions, habitats, designs and plants, from early spring through autumn. Featured private gardens include Panayoti Kelaidis's rock garden in Denver, Colorado; Deborah Whigham and Gary Ratway's collection of native and Mediterranean plants and earth walls in Albion, California; and James David's imaginative mix of heat-tolerant plants, rills and pools in Austin, Texas.;Part one: preservation gardens. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, California ; Rock Hils, Mount Kisco, New York ; Joh P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden, Mill Neck, New York ; The Chase Garden, Orting, Washinton ; Hollister House Garden, Washington, Connecticut ; The Gardens of Alcatraz, San Francisco, California ; The Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden, Bishopville, South Carolina ; Peckerwood Garden, Hempstead, Texas -- Part two: private gardens, open days.The Mid-Atlantic. Ed & Vivian Merrin's Garden, Cortlandt Manor, New York ; The White Garden, Lewisboro, New Y ork ; Ice Pond Farm, The Garden of Dick Button, North Salem, New York ; Duck Hill, The Garden of Page Dickey & Bosco Schell, North Salem, New York ; An Oehme, Van Sweden Garden, Westchester County, New York ; Iroki, The Garden of Judy & Michael Steinhardt, Mount Kisco, New York ; Landcraft Environments, Mattituck, New York ; The Garden of Andrea Filippone, Pottersville, New Jersey ; Bird Haven Farm, The Garden of Janet Mavec & Wayne Nordberg, Pottersville, New Jersey ; David Culp's Brandywine Cottage, Downingtown, Pennsylvania ; Hooverness, the Garden of Tom Armstrong, Fishers Island, New York -- The Northeast. Susan Burke's Garden, Nantucket, Massachusetts ; Grey Gulls, The Garden of Peter & Carolyn Lynch, Marblehead, Massachusetts ; Maureen Ruettger's Gardens at the Clock Barn, Carlisle, Massachusetts ; Bill Noble's Garden, Norwich, Vermont ; The Garden of Margaret Roach, Copake Falls, New York ; The Garden of Lee Link, Sharon, Connecticut ; Bunny Williams' Garden, Falls Village, Connecticut ; In Situ, Redding, Connecticut -- The South. Cindy & Ben Lenhardt's Garden, Charleston, South Carolina ; The Garden of Gene & Betsy Johnson, Charleston South Carolina ; The Garden of Peter & Patti McGee, Charleston, South Carolina ; Whilton Farm, The Garden of Courtnay Daniels, Greenwood, Virginia ; Hilltop Farm, The Garden of Caesar & Dorothy Stair, Knoxville, Tennessee -- The Midwest. Camp Rosemary, Lake Forest, Illinois ; John & Neville Bryan's Crab Tree FArm, Lake Bluff, Illinois ; The Garden of Peggy & Jack Crowe, Lake Forest, Illinois ; Greenfire Woods, The Garden of Hattie & Ted Purtell, Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- The West. The Stitelers Garden, Phoenix, Arizona ; The Anne Bass Garden, Fort Worth, Texas ; James David & Gary Peese's Garden, Austin Texas ; Panayoti Ikelaidis's Garden, Dever, Colorado -- The West Coast. Ernie & Marietta O'Byrne's, Eugene, Oregon ; The Jane Platt Garden, Portalnd Oregon ; The Gardens at Digging Dog Nursery, Albion, California ; The Reider Garden, San Francisco, California ; Marcia Donahue's Garden, Berkeley, California ; Donivee Nash's Garden, Pasadena, California ; Woodacres, Suzanne & Ric Kayne's Garden, Santa Monica, Calfornia ; The Garden of Joseph Marek & John Bernatz, Santa Monica, California ; Suzanne Rheinstein's Garden, Los Angeles, California.