Grandmother's Garden

by May Brawley Hill

Book Overview

This is a study of traditional American perennial gardens, which attained great popularity between the Civil War and World War I. It traces the development of this indigenous garden style in period... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810933896
• ISBN13: 9780810933897
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Grandmother's Garden

I would want to know, in the case of used products, details about it's condition. With books, the condition of the dust jacket and cover, any marks inside, torn pages, condition of binding. This book was in excellent condition, a good read and wonderful pictures.

Wonderful book!

I am stunned to see some bad reviews for this book! I came across it accidentally at the library and intend to buy it soon. It is certainly not a "garden book" in the sense of what to plant where. What it is is an extraordinary history of grandmothers' gardens and accompanying art, culture, and values. I love cottage gardening, history, the Arts and Crafts movement, Gertrude Jekyll, etc. and this book is about many of these things. I've also learned through it of many interesting books and writers and plan to research them. Highly recommended. Well written too.

Seeing the garden through an artist's eyes

I'd borrowed this book from the library and I had to go out and buy it! If you are a painter and love the era of early American Impressionism, you'll love this book because it shows you the paintings and it shows you the actual gardens that inspired them. I see gardens as potential painting subjects - especially the "cottage gardens" or "grandmother's gardens" - that were so inspiring to the artists of the late 1800s. If you don't paint, you probably won't get the point of this book.

Photos and paintings of antique gardens make a lovely book!

Written by May Browley Hill, an art student and passionate gardener, this book is terrific! Using archival photographs and paintings of famous gardens, she creates a beautiful book. For lovers of Monet's Giverny, there are photos plus Monet's paintings of the gardens. Childe Hassam's paintings of Celia Thaxter's garden on Appledore Island joined with actual photos are wonderful. Many other equally charming gardens are featured. After reading and savoring this book, budding artist-gardener types may be inspired to capture their own gardens on paper.