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booksarethenewblack's review
4.0
I want to thank Netgalley & the Publisher for providing me with an eARC of this book. Receiving a copy to review has not influenced my thoughts and opinions.
I love gardening/flowers/plants and everything in between. I saw this and the cover alone made me want to read it. It's gorgeous! I was lucky enough to get an eARC (Advanced Readers Copy).
I really loved all the photos inside but I was hoping for a little more. I was expecting page after page, just filled with gardens and beautiful views. Don't get me wrong, there are some but there's a lot of text and structures. While I enjoyed the information, there was a lot of it. All the pant names and what they are known for/can do. I just wish there was more color but a lot of it, is structures in a garden.
I did find myself relaxing, while reading through this book. Some of the photos are just absolutely beautiful. I kind of want to buy this for my coffee table!
You can also see my review here: Books Are The New Black
I love gardening/flowers/plants and everything in between. I saw this and the cover alone made me want to read it. It's gorgeous! I was lucky enough to get an eARC (Advanced Readers Copy).
I really loved all the photos inside but I was hoping for a little more. I was expecting page after page, just filled with gardens and beautiful views. Don't get me wrong, there are some but there's a lot of text and structures. While I enjoyed the information, there was a lot of it. All the pant names and what they are known for/can do. I just wish there was more color but a lot of it, is structures in a garden.
I did find myself relaxing, while reading through this book. Some of the photos are just absolutely beautiful. I kind of want to buy this for my coffee table!
You can also see my review here: Books Are The New Black
cherylanntownsend's review
3.0
Sure glad I bought this as a remainder at 1/2 off. Big disappointment. "A Botanical Tour of The World's Best New Gardens" .. BAH! While the narrative was fine, the visuals were sorely lacking. I want to see the garden, not umpteen views of single plants, a rock, a building. I can see that with any of the plethora of catalogues I get. There were a few (under 10, I'd say) lustful images included. Such a nice, hardback & colorful book to have so few views to enjoy.
tonstantweader's review
5.0
Gardenlust is one of those gorgeous picture books that people can get lost in for hours. Featuring fifty gardens, from the austere to the madcap, restrained formalism and exuberant naturalism, the only rule seems to be there are no rules. The gardens range from less than ½ an acre to around to more than a thousand acres. There are private gardens and massive public gardens including a garden that is just beginning to be developed, it’s planned completion in 2037.
It is not just the variety of gardens, though, that make Gardenlust different than your average garden book. These gardens have a new sensibility. There is a modern sensibility in most of them that takes into consideration things like sustainability and water conservation and some even challenge our concept of what is a garden like Gibbs Farm which is acres and acres of grassland populated by livestock and giant sculptures or the Landschaftspark garden planted on an industrial ironworks with the pipes and ladders and buildings remaining, just set off with plants, bushes, and trees.
I read through Gardenlust more than once and then looked for the gardens on Google, searching for more pictures because they were so beautiful and many of them unlike the usual garden. I have always loved gardens and Portland’s Japanese Garden, Chinese Garden, Rose Test Garden, and Rhododendron Garden are some of my favorite things in the city. The book is visually appealing, generously illustrated. To give you an idea of how lovely it is, I brought it along to Thanksgiving at my friend’s house and someone was constantly looking through it and even talking about getting their own copies. My one complaint is that it is heavy, too heavy for arthritic hands, so I had to get out a pillow to rest it on while I read. Otherwise, it’s everything I could ask for in a garden book.
I received a copy of Gardenlust from the publisher through LibraryThing.
Gardenlust at Timber Press | Workman Publishing
Christopher Woods on Linked In
https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/9781604697971/
It is not just the variety of gardens, though, that make Gardenlust different than your average garden book. These gardens have a new sensibility. There is a modern sensibility in most of them that takes into consideration things like sustainability and water conservation and some even challenge our concept of what is a garden like Gibbs Farm which is acres and acres of grassland populated by livestock and giant sculptures or the Landschaftspark garden planted on an industrial ironworks with the pipes and ladders and buildings remaining, just set off with plants, bushes, and trees.
I read through Gardenlust more than once and then looked for the gardens on Google, searching for more pictures because they were so beautiful and many of them unlike the usual garden. I have always loved gardens and Portland’s Japanese Garden, Chinese Garden, Rose Test Garden, and Rhododendron Garden are some of my favorite things in the city. The book is visually appealing, generously illustrated. To give you an idea of how lovely it is, I brought it along to Thanksgiving at my friend’s house and someone was constantly looking through it and even talking about getting their own copies. My one complaint is that it is heavy, too heavy for arthritic hands, so I had to get out a pillow to rest it on while I read. Otherwise, it’s everything I could ask for in a garden book.
I received a copy of Gardenlust from the publisher through LibraryThing.
Gardenlust at Timber Press | Workman Publishing
Christopher Woods on Linked In
https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/9781604697971/
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