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Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservation Work of The Garden Club of Virginia, 1975–2007 Hardcover – April 2, 2009

by Margaret Page Bemiss (Author), Roger Foley (Photographer)
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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."

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  1. Print length
    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Virginia Press
  4. Publication date
    April 2, 2009
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. Dimensions
    8.5 x 1.25 x 10 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0813926599
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0813926599
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Margaret Page Bemiss is a current member and former president of the James River Garden Club. She has also been a member of the Restoration Committee of The Garden Club of Virginia, and served on the Archive of American Gardens Committee of The Garden Club of America.

Roger Foley’s award-winning landscape and garden photography has appeared in books and magazines for more than 20 years. He is the sole photographer in nine books, including the two award-winning books Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon and Seascape Gardening.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Virginia Press; First Edition (April 2, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813926599
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813926599
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.25 x 10 inches
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  • Michelle J. Foster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous resource and a beautiful book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2010
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    For those who can imagine no finer way to spend a spring day than to wander through lush Virginia gardens, this book is a delight. It showcases the renovations and diagrams of some of the East Coast's most significant and interesting gardens.

    Filled with meticulous notes and planting diagrams, it offers the current gardener a way to tangibly connect with our past - by adapting ideas, using tested planting schemes and incorpating older design ideas into the landscape.

    It is a beautiful and thoughtful book, and one that should be on every serious gardener's shelf.
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  • Joshua Hail
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gardens of Virginia
    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2011
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    Being a student of Landscape Architecture I get tired of the endless books that only show "pretty pictures" with out any design elements in them. This book has it all, pretty pictures and plan designs.Awesome book!!
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  • DennisT
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to local gardens!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2013
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    This is a collection of special gardens through different areas of Virginia that includes some diagrams as well as pictures and history.
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  • Mary Ann Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not just a coffee table book
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2010
    This book is beautiful but the true beauty lies in the text. It is a readable and fascinating account of many of Virginia's historic homes and their gardens. Each entry can be read in a short sitting so the book lends itself to being enjoyed when you have only 15 minutes to fill. It is rich in information and, while colorful, is much more than just a picture book.
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  • Landscape Architect
    5.0 out of 5 stars Historic Virginia Gardens
    Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2009
    The book is excellent. It gives detailed drawings of the projects and alse detailed descriptions of the work.
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