Dardick, Karen Estate Gardens Of California ISBN 13: 9780847824496

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Detailed with loving accuracy in the photography of Melba Levick and in the lucid prose of Karen Dardick, Estate Gardens of California showcases fifteen magnificent estate gardens that are uniquely, exuberantly Californian. Included within are the classically inspired, 654-acre gardens of Filoli near San Francisco, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation-an estate with grounds of such alluring beauty that many times the cameras of Hollywood have come here to film; the Huntington Library Gardens in San Marino, one of the most important botanical gardens in the world; and the opulent and strange but wildly popular Lotusland in Montecito, a fantasy world of exquisite beauty created by Madam Ganna Walska with famed designer Lockwood de Forest. Other gardens featured are in Pebble Beach, Newport Beach, Beverly Hills, the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, and Rancho Palos Verdes. It is the plant palette of almost endless possibilities that makes California's great gardens so breathtaking. In Estate Gardens a rare and privileged glimpse of these possibilities is given.

Cohen Estate, Newport Beach (owner of Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles)
Collins Estate, Beverly Hills
Hacienda Mar Monte, Pebble Beach
Descanso Gardens, La Canada (open to public)
Filoli, Woodside (open to public)
Lotusland, Montecito (open to public)
Rancho Los Alamitos, Long Beach (open to public)
Stathatos Estate, San Marino
Beaulieu Residence, Napa Valley (private residence of owner of Beaulieu winery)
Villa Fiore, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County
Huntington Library, San Marino (open to public)
Val Verde, Montecito (open for limited public viewing)
Villa Narcissa, Rancho Palos Verdes
Virginia Robinson Estate and Gardens, Beverly Hills (open for limited public viewing)
Alden Estate, Santa Monica Canyon.

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Melba Levick is a widely published and exhibited photographer based in Paris and Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in more than twenty books and numerous magazine articles both in Europe and in the United States. Levick has worked on many Rizzoli titles, including the best selling Casa California.

Karen Dardick is a writer and garden expert widely known for her articles in the Los Angeles Times, House & Garden, The American Gardener, and other journals and newspapers. Dardick's bylined articles appear monthly in the Pasadena StarNews, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, and the San Diego Union Tribune.
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San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles lure garden travelers to discover splendid examples of a gardening tradition hearkening back to a period in California's history when an influx of affluent individuals built their dream estates in the Sunshine State. Readers yearning to experience this rich legacy will delight in the efforts of Levick and Dardick, who trace seminal influences of Italian and Spanish architectural styles and Mediterranean plantings in lush photographs and a sparkling narrative profiling destinations befitting any itinerary of California gardens. Although not every garden illustrated is open to the public, many can be visited with a bit of advance planning. Readers will be enticed to explore the lovely formality of Filoli and wondrous plant collections on display at the Huntington Botanical Gardens, the famed vistas of Hearst Castle at San Simeon, and Lotusland's captivatingly eccentric setting. Discriminating garden tourists will find newer locales like the glorious landscape at Ferrari-Carano Winery in Northern California's wine country worthy of a special sojourn. Alice Joyce
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  • PublisherRizzoli
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0847824497
  • ISBN 13 9780847824496
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages176
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