Dig Into This Spring’s New Crop of Garden Books
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Charlotte Moss: Garden Inspirations (Rizzoli, $50) takes as its case study the designer’s East Hampton, New York, home, Boxwood Terrace, a spec house that she converted into what she calls her “personal Arcadia.” The home’s decor—baskets, vases, china, linens—reflects the flora and foliage outside.
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Boxwood Terrace's verdant landscape provided the inspiration for Moss's elegant table setting and serves as a lush backdrop for stylish entertaining. Biographies of her gardening muses, from Beatrix Potter to Bunny Mellon, as well as an inventory of her favorite gardens across the globe, round out the book.
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First published in 1998, Bunny Williams: On Garden Style (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $50) has become a classic of the genre, and this new edition, full of fresh photography, is a smart update for the 21st century.
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Spectacular landscapes, from Doris Duke’s Hawaiian Shangri-la to the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano, Italy (shown here), inform Williams’s detailed directives on pots, parterres, pergolas, and other important structural elements.
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In The American Spirit in the English Garden (Garden Art Press, $65), author Jean Stone traces how, in the 17th century, new-world plants began arriving in the British Isles, greatly influencing the region’s highly regarded horticultural style.
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In the City of Light, the chic Haussmannian apartment buildings and Art Deco artist studios are beguiling enough from the outside. But, as Private Gardens of Paris (Flammarion, $35) reveals, often hidden behind those lovely façades are compelling patches of sumptuous greenery.
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The site of a former ceramics workshop, this garden in Paris’s 7th arrondissement features three levels, the lowest being this tree-shaded terrace.
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A re-creation of George Washington's Mount Vernon garden at the American Museum in Britain in Bath, England.
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Shooting in the early dew-heavy moments of the day, photographer Stacy Bass has captured twelve serene sylvan settings in Gardens at First Light (AtHome Books, $60).
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At Bass’s own home, overlooking Long Island Sound, dawn filters through the trees, striking an orb fountain by artist Alison Armour.
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Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman’s Life (The Monacelli Press, $50) profiles Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf’s nursery in the Netherlands, where for more than three decades he has been experimenting with the plantings that make up his distinctive style.
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Pliny’s Garden, created on the Spanish island of Majorca by Madrid-based landscape designer Fernando Caruncho.
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Oudolf’s work at New York's High Line park and Wisley, the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship in Surrey, England (pictured), exemplifies his revolutionary landscaping vision, which often includes a self-seeding function reminiscent of wildflower meadows and prairie grasslands.
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The Good Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design (The Monacelli Press, $60) is the third book from the New York-based Hollander, whose work is frequently featured in Architectural Digest.
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Secret Gardens (Abrams, $50) highlights photographer Alain Le Toquin’s dreamy images of thirteen private plots around the world, from Europe to the Caribbean to Oceania, many of which have never been captured on film before.