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• Foreword / Sacheverell Sitwell
• Introduction / Osbert Sitwell
• On the making of gardens / Sir George Sitwell
• The gardens at Renishaw / Reresby Sitwell
• References in the text (p. 127-128).

Featuring archival as well as commissioned photography, this book focuses on the trend-setting American garden.
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A collection of photographs taken by Jekyll herself of her work, showing her vision of borders, woodland and terrace plantings, pathways, and architectural features in the garden. Introductory essays examine her continuing influence.
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• First encounters
• The landscape's history
• Rejuvenation begins
• The ruins garden
• The parterre
• The grand staircase
• The ponds
• The daffodil valley
• The music room
• The cemetery
• Garden animation
• Animated occasions
• Ornamentation
• The garden's guardians
• The joys of gardening and otherwise
• Garden woes
• Journaling
• An ode to Dr. O
• Realization
• Afterward.

In the early 1990s the design and creation of the Central Garden at the Getty Center were entrusted to the distinguished contemporary visual artist Robert Irwin. Irwin a member of California's "light and space" movement-was an unexpected choice for this major commission, and his work has aroused intense interest in the art world and among gardening enthusiasts and visitors to the Getty Center. In Robert Irwin Getty Garden, Lawrence Weschler offers a lively account of the creation of what Irwin has playfully termed "a sculpture in the form of a garden aspiring to be art." Weschler's narrative is followed by a transcript of conversations in which he and Irwin, in a series of walks through the garden, discuss in detail the decisions, both philosophical and practical, that shaped the making of this major art work in Southern California. The book contains more than 150 colour illustrations, many of them specially commissioned from photographer Becky Cohen. The photographs capture the stunning variety of colours and textures of the plant forms selected by Irwin. They also reveal the care and precision that went into the creation of each element of the garden environment, from the handrails and lighting fixtures to the huge azalea rings and waterfall that make a visit to the Getty Central Garden a unique experience.
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• Part I: Sound and scent in landscape history. Introduction: A world of senses / D. Fairchild Ruggles ; Beyond ekphrasis, beyond sight, beyond words... / John Dixon Hunt ; Acoustic delay : body technique and the Hortus condusus / Elizabeth Fowler ; "Come south wind, blow upon my garden that its spices may flow" : experience in the ancient Jewish garden / Deborah A. Green ; Bottled gardens : capturing scents for health / Alain Touwaide ; A sensorial experience in Yunqin Zhai : from Qin zither music to natural melody in the Chinese garden / Yu Zhang ; Perfuming the heart : a study of a seventeenth-century perfumery treatise from Islamic India / Ali Akbar Husain ; The scent of power flowers, fragrance, and ephemerality in the gardens of Louis XIV / Elizabeth Hyde ; The patriarch and the apothecary : planting gardens and making Holy Miro in seventeenth-century Moscow / Rachel Koroloff ; Sounds and scents of monsoon in the late medieval gardens of Rajasthan / Priyaleen Singh ; Lilac and nightingale : a heritage of scent and sound at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill / Mark Laird ; The expulsion of the senses the idea of the "Italian garden" and the politics of sensory experience / Anatole Tchikine ; "Bearing to your senses sweet sounds and odors" : early impressions of the prairie landscape / Barbara Burlison Mooney
• Part II: Sound in the contemporary garden : a design primer. Sound installations in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens : an introduction / John Beardsley ; Sound art in gardens : an artist's response to site / Hugh Livingston.