California Gardens

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Summary: California Gardens
Review: If you are looking for great early photographs of southern California gardens, this is the book to examine. It's narrative content is limited, but we all know how many words a picture is worth. From the transitional to the ecclectic, early gardens in California play host to numerous cultural ideas of regional landscapes. Heavily influenced by Mediterranean formal gardens, there are still other photos representing Spanish settlements of early California, and a few attempts at what I would call Maxfield Parrish-esque fantasies.

Rating:
Summary: California Gardens
Review: If you are looking for great early photographs of southern California gardens, this is the book to examine. It's narrative content is limited, but we all know how many words a picture is worth. From the transitional to the ecclectic, early gardens in California play host to numerous cultural ideas of regional landscapes. Heavily influenced by Mediterranean formal gardens, there are still other photos representing Spanish settlements of early California, and a few attempts at what I would call Maxfield Parrish-esque fantasies.