Table of Contents — Outstanding American Gardens: A Celebration

Foreword

Introduction 

PART ONE: PRESERVATION GARDENS

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Preservation Gardens

Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, CA

Rocky Hills, Mount Kisco, NY

John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden, Mill Neck, NY

Chase Garden, Orting, WA

Hollister House Garden, Washington, CT

Gardens of Alcatraz, San Francisco, CA

Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden, Bishopville, SC

Peckerwood Garden, Hempstead, TX

PART TWO: PRIVATE GARDENS, OPEN DAYS

The Mid-Atlantic

Ed & Vivian Merrin’s Garden, Cortlandt Manor, NY

The White Garden, Lewisboro, NY

Ice Pond Farm, The Garden of Dick Button, North Salem, NY

Duck Hill, The Garden of Page Dickey & Bosco Schell, North Salem, NY

An Oehme, Van Sweden Garden, Westchester County, NYC

Iroki, The Garden of Judy & Michael Steinhardt, Mount Kisco, NY

Landcraft Environments, Mattituck, NY

The Garden of Andrea Filippone, Pottersville, NJ

Bird Haven Farm, The Garden of Janet Mavec & Wayne Nordberg, Pottersville, NJ

David Culp’s Brandywine Cottage, Downington, PA

Hooverness, The Garden of Tom Armstrong, Fishers Island, NY

The Northeast

Susan Burke’s Garden, Nantucket, MA

Grey Gulls, The Garden of Peter & Carolyn Lynch, Marblehead, MA

Maureen Ruettger’s Gardens at the Clock Barn, Carlisle, MA

Bill Noble’s Garden, Norwich, VT

The Garden of Margaret Roach, Copake Falls, NY

The Garden of Lee Link, Sharon, CT

Bunny Williams’s Garden, Falls Village, CT

Ken Uhle’s Woodland Garden, Ridgefield, CT

In Situ, Redding, CT

The South

Cindy & Ben Lenhardt’s Garden, Charleston, SC

The Garden of Gene & Betsy Johnson, Charleston, SC

The Garden of Peter & Patti McGee, Charleston, SC

Whilton Farm, The Garden of Courtnay Daniels, Greenwood, VA

Hilltop Farm, The Garden of Caeser & Dorothy Stair, Knoxville, TN

The Midwest

Camp Rosemary, Lake Forest, IL

John & Neville Bryan’s Crab Tree Farm, Lake Bluff, IL

The Garden of Peggy & Jack Crowe, Lake Forest, IL

Greenfire Woods, The Garden of Hattie & Ted Purtell, Milwaukee, WI

The West

The Stiteler’s Garden, Phoenix, AZ

The Anne Bass Garden, Fort Worth, TX

James David & Gary Peese’s Garden, Austin, TX

Panayoti Kelaidis’s Garden, Denver, CO

The West Coast

Ernie & Marietta O’Byrne’s Garden, Eugene, OR

The Jane Platt Garden, Portland, OR

The Gardens at Digging Dog Nursery, Albion, CA

The Rieder Garden, San Francisco, CA

Marcia Donahue’s Garden, Berkeley, CA

Donivee Nash’s Garden, Pasadena, CA

Woodacres, Suzanne & Ric Kayne’s Garden, Santa Monica, CA

The Garden of Joseph Marek & John Bernatz, Santa Monica, CA

Suzanne Rheinstein’s Garden, Los Angeles, CA

See a map of where these fifty gardens are located. 

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