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Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia's Historic Gardens
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About Seeking Eden: A Collection Of Georgia's Historic
Product Description Seeking Eden promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication Garden History of Georgia, 1733–1933. Seeking Eden records each garden’s evolution and history as well as each garden’s current early twenty-first-century appearance, as beautifully documented in photographs. Dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, these publicly and privately owned gardens include nineteenth-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place–era landscapes, rock gardens, historic town squares, college campuses, and an urban conservation garden.Seeking Eden explores the significant impact of the women who envisioned and nurtured many of these special places; the role of professional designers, including J. Neel Reid, Philip Trammel Shutze, William C. Pauley, Robert B. Cridland, the Olmsted Brothers, Hubert Bond Owens, and Clermont Lee; and the influence of the garden club movement in Georgia in the early twentieth century.FEATURED GARDENS:Andrew Low House and Garden | SavannahAshland Farm | FlintstoneBarnsley Gardens | AdairsvilleBarrington Hall and Bulloch Hall | RoswellBattersby-Hartridge Garden | SavannahBeech Haven | AthensBerry College: Oak Hill and House o’ Dreams | Mount BerryBradley Olmsted Garden | ColumbusCator Woolford Gardens | AtlantaCoffin-Reynolds Mansion | Sapelo IslandDunaway Gardens | Newnan vicinityGovernor’s Mansion | AtlantaHills and Dales Estate | LaGrangeLullwater Conservation Garden | AtlantaMillpond Plantation | Thomasville vicinityOakton | MariettaRock City Gardens | Lookout MountainSalubrity Hall | AugustaSavannah Squares | SavannahStephenson-Adams-Land Garden | AtlantaSwan House | AtlantaUniversity of Georgia: North Campus, the President’s House and Garden, and the Founders Memorial Garden | AthensValley View | Cartersville vicinityWormsloe and Wormsloe State Historic Site | Savannah vicinityZahner-Slick Garden | Atlanta Review Seeking Eden is an extraordinary book and should be well received by anyone who appreciates our gardening heritage. The authors combine a pleasant style with solid scholarship as they offer important insights into some of the region’s most magnificent gardens. It will be a great reference for southern gardeners, both new and old, and it should be required reading for every southern college student pursuing a degree in plant sciences, landscape design, or historic preservation. -- William C. Welch ― coauthor of Heirloom Gardening in the South: Yesterday’s Plants for Today’s Gardens Seeking Eden significantly contributes to our knowledge of historic gardens and landscapes, heirloom plants, and early gardening in Georgia. The book should have broad appeal to garden club, garden history, and preservation society members; horticulturists; landscape architects; and scholars as well as nonscholars of the subject. The book essentially updates the status of many of the gardens described in the cardinal publication Garden History of Georgia 1733–1933, published by the Peachtree Garden Club. Not surprisingly a number of those gardens have ceased to exist, although a number of extant gardens still flourish or new ones have replaced the old, all of which are described. -- A. Jefferson Lewis III, director emeritus of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia I was pleased to see the Governor’s Mansion featured in this book. I am very proud of the University of Georgia Press and its work to preserve Georgia’s history! -- Sandra Deal, First Lady of Georgia The recommendation for audience is researchers and people looking for information and complete histories on Georgia’s spectacular gardens, impressive structures, and gorgeous houses. The book is highly recommended for public and academic libraries. -- Melinda F. Matthews ― The Southeastern Librarian This well-researched and beautifully
