National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens: 300 Of the Best Gardens to Visit in the U.S. and Canada

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Summary: A must for the garden-loving traveler.
Review: "Small enough to travel with and detailed enough to learn from, this book is a must for the garden loving traveler". THE AMERICAN GARDENER

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Summary: This is the best guide I've used and I've used many
Review: I have visited hundreds of gardens on four continents and, at a national level, this guide is the most pleasing to the eye and has the best general descriptions of gardens and their histories that I have used. It is a powerful incentive to travel, and a most useful guide for finding the best public gardens on one's route.

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Summary: each picture was beautiful and very elaborate, i loved it
Review: I loved it. Every page I turned was another great picture of a garden. It helps me calm down before every night befor bed. I'm proud to have this book on my coffe table for all my friends to see.

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Summary: i think the book is brilliant!!! two thumbs up!
Review: I personally think the book is fasanaiting and it covers so many beautiful gardens, what a brilliant book. exellent pictures, and the quality of the pictures is amazing! I'm a big fan of the "National Giographic" series, and it's certainly one of the best i've read... (sorry about the spelling errors, i can't spell..)

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Summary: This book was incredible
Review: I recently had to do a project on different types of plants and gardens, for my biology class. This book was very helpful, and allowed me to complete my project. The photographs were beautiful, and enjoyable to look at. I would very enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone interested in gardening. It was a great book!

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Summary: The Power of Gardens
Review: Mary, Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. The gardens Mary Zuazua describe grow not with silver bells or cockle shells but with a super profusion of color and form. All of us have a garden somewhere buried back down deep in their souls. Like the taste of Proust's madeleine soaked in lime flowers conjured up images of the past,these photos conjure up images of past gardens, real or idealized. Mine a Spanish garden,once lush and verdant,to another an English garden formal, ordered and sterile. But such is the power of these images if one has dreams to dream.

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Summary: A beautifully photographed comprehensive garden tour book
Review: Now that gardening has become a major hobby of many Americans,Mary Zuazua Jenkins' beautifully photographed National Geographic Guide to America's Public Gardens is a must. How delightful when traveling in the U.S. or Canada to use this guide and spend an afternoon enjoying one of our finest garden spots. A great Xmas gift.

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Summary: A great tour guide, a feast for the eyes and the imagination
Review: One of the less-frequently mentioned reasons to tour this great country is the wonderful array of public gardens that are out there, waiting to unfold their splendors to the visitor. This handsomely photographed book should provide a lot of people with the excuse to get up and go. Too bad it doesn't include scratch and sniff features as the flowers depicted leave one wishing to satisfy the sense of smell as well. By the way, I was pleasantly surprised to find some gardens that I had not only never seen in a book before, but never even heard of. The editors are to be congratulated for their wide-ranging survey, but then I always expect that of the Smithsonian crew. WBM, Kent, CT

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Summary: I thought the book was wonderful
Review: This book gave me mant great ideas on what to do to make my own garden look as nice as the ones in the pictures. They were all so colorful and beautiful. Anyone who is a gardener like myself would enjoy the book as much as i did.

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Summary: a wolderful book for gardners and others who love gardens
Review: This book is excellent. I love gardening and this book had some of the most bueatiful gardens i have ever seen, now i have a long list of places i want to visit so i can see those gardens myself.