"Throughout her long and storied life, Rachel Bunny Mellon's greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband, Paul Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America, maintained homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville, Virginia, and she designed the gardens at all of them. She also designed gardens for some of her dearest friends, including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White House, at the request of President...

Pottering around the garden is a great way to relax. Spending a couple of hours doing some deep weeding or relocating plants that are struggling can be both therapeutic and make a valuable contribution to your patch. Even if you’re a gardening amateur, why not try to achieve some sense of colour palette and plant strategy? Some seasons it will work, others not, but that’s part of the fun and excitement – not knowing if the tulips will resurface

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A young girl describes what she loves most in her garden during each season.

The Australian Country Gardens book takes you behind the scenes at some of the most beautiful gardens across rural Australia. From traditional cottage gardens to sprawling outback oases, we’ve had privileged access to some of this country’s gardeners’ most splendid horticultural achievements. This collection of photo essays travels from one end of the country to the other and showcases gardens from grand-scale to pocket-sized, and simple

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"They are found in tiny parcels of land squeezed among Manhattan buildings and in large rolling tracts of land in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. New York City's cemeteries carry on the ancient tradition of memorializing the dead with monuments, from plain gray markers to imposing crypts. Whatever their size, they tell the story of the city' evolution--its triumphs, tragedies and setbacks-as it became a global capital. From the 17th century, when...