Private Gardens of the Bay Area

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Seasoned garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner, at the side of leading landscape photographer Marion Brenner, tour more than thirty-five private gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, illuminating the unrivalled wonderful thing about Northern California—the breadth of the sky, the quality of the light, the sparkle of the Bay, the shapes of the hills—that has beckoned landscape designers and gardeners for generations.
 
Organized geographically—starting with the San Francisco Peninsula, moving north into San Francisco itself, crossing the Bay into Berkeley and Oakland, and finishing in Napa, Sonoma, and Marin—Private Gardens of the Bay Area encompasses an abnormal range of micro-climates that foster the cultivation of an equally abnormal range of plants. The kaleidoscope of full of life plants from five continents bursting out of an Oakland front yard is one more or less garden, the clean-lined up to date composition of drought-tolerant natives and gravel is another, and the garden tucked into the mountain landscape of oaks, manzanitas, and ceanothus is yet another.
 
This fascinating tour includes gardens such as Green Gables, where the 1911 terraced design by Greene & Greene is meticulously preserved; Big Swing, with a world-renowned choice of salvias; a vertical garden on a vertiginous web site in San Francisco by Surfacedesign; and a romantic landscape of lawns, perennial beds, and stately oaks owned by noted collectors and gallerists Gretchen and John Berggruen. Lowry and Berner describe the goals of every garden owner and the principles at the back of the designs.

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