Great Gardens of America

Tim Richardson is a writer who specializes in garden and landscape design and history. He has been gardens editor at Country Life, and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine, and was founding editor of both the award-winning gardens magazine New Eden and Country Life Gardens. He now contributes mostly to the Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Country Life. He is the author of Phaidon's The Garden Book, Vanguard Landscapes Gardens of Martha Schwartz, English Gardens of the 20th Century and Arcadian Friends: the Makers of the English Landscape Garden. He is also editor of Vista: the Culture and Politics of Gardens (Frances Lincoln). Andrea Jones is one of the world's foremost garden photographers, having built up an international reputation for her photographs of landscape architecture, gardens and plants. The latter was the subject of Andrea's critically acclaimed solo book Plantworlds (2005). She has collaborated on numerous other book projects since Bold Plants and Grasses and Bamboos, both by Noel Kingsbury (1999). Andrea's collection of work forms the stock library Garden Exposures and appears in the international press including Gardens Illustrated, Garden Design (USA), House and Garden and The Daily Telegraph. Based in Scotland, Andrea is a Fellow of the RSA and exhibits her work around the world having had several successful solo exhibitions in both the UK and US. In 2008/9 she was voted Photographer of the Year by her peers in the UK's Garden Media Guild.

GARDENS Chanticleer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Chris Woods Longhouse, East Hampton, New York State Jack Lenor Larsen Les Quatre Vents, Quebec, Canada Frank Cabot Innisfree, Millbrook, New York State Walter Beck and Lester Collins Lotusland, Santa Barbara, California Ganna Walska Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia Thomas Jefferson Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts Fletcher Steele The Huntington Library Cactus Garden, Los Angeles, California William Hertrich The Cornerstone Garden Festival, Sonoma, California Various designers Metis Festival and Gardens, Quebec, Canada Various designers Kykuit, Tarrytown, New York State WW Bosworth El Novillero, Sonoma, California Thomas Church The Douglas House, Phoenix, Arizona Steve Martino Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Pierre Dupont Stan Hywet garden, Akron, Ohio Warren Manning Vizcaya, Miami, Florida Diego Suarez Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois Piet Oudolf and Kathryn Gustafson Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC Beatrix Farrand Middleton Place, Charleston, North Carolina Henry Middleton The Rifkind Garden, Amagansett, New York State Wolfgang Oehme, James van Sweden and Eric Groft Miller Garden, Columbus, Indiana Dan Kiley Filoli, Woodside, California Bruce Porter Windcliff, Seattle, Washington Dan Hinkley Hither Lane, East Hampton, New York State Doug Reed and Gary Hilderbrand Bloedel Reserve, Seattle, Washington Prentice and Virginia Bloedel