California Eden - Christine Edstrom O'Hara, Susan Chamberlin

A striking and elegant coffee-table book highlighting heritage landscape design in California.CaliforniaÂ’s diverse vernacular and designed landscapes have roots in the late 1700s Spanish colonization of what was then called Alta California. The state also has a unique endemic flora and rich botanical history from both the Indigenous peopleÂ’s “protoagriculture” and plant introductions that continue to this day. For many people, however, the concept of landscape is associated with gardens, especially... Zobrazit více