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The Private Gardens of Charleston by Louisa Pringle Cameron will give Southern gardeners the ideas, the beautiful photos, the personal accounts, and the inside information they need, but don't often get from other sources. Cameron takes you on a tour of 24 private gardens in Charleston but also includes the unique: a contemporary courtyard garden, an atrium garden, a historic restoration garden, a palm garden, and an eighteenth-century garden. The plants and the way they are used in the Southern setting will look familiar to you. And the author's conversations with homeowners (whose vivid recollections and experiences in the garden will be all too familiar) are typically Southern. This is the kind of book to give to the transplanted but homesick Southerner--gardener or not. It comes as no surprise to this reviewer that Cameron's book received the 1993 Benjamin Franklin Award.
Carolina Edens by Al and Cindy Spicer is a guidebook to 65 of North and South Carolina's public gardens, arboreta, and nature reserves. The book is actually divided into two books: North Carolina and South Carolina and proves to be quite a resource. All the gardens are not only listed alphabetically by city, but for each garden, there is a short history, an address, telephone number, and information on hours and fees--the reader will find this indispensable. The Spicers also include outstanding garden collections, travel directions to each garden, and tips for making your visit more enjoyable. And, of course, Al Spicer's color photos (over a hundred of them) are breathtaking. Carolina Edens has something for everyone: the gardener looking for new ideas, the traveler looking for new sites, or the book lover looking for a new treasure. This truly is a gardener's guidebook--take it with you when you travel.
In a Southern Garden: Twelve Months of Plants and Observations by Carol Bishop Hipps guides you on a year-long ramble through Hipps's garden. The author shares bits of wisdom and advice gleaned from years of gardening in the South. Here is a garden reference rich in information. The book is organized using a month-to-month format. It includes both new and old plants suitable for the hot Southern climate; it discusses how to site plants for best growth; how to care for plants accustomed to colder climates; and how to rethink the basic design of your garden to make it a welcoming sanctuary throughout the year. Hipps dispels old myths and dispenses plain garden sense. Keep this book on your shelf--you'll be consulting it throughout the year.
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