Great Gardens of America

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. 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).

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