Product Description

With patios, terraces, and pools, Southern homes frequently spill into outdoor living space. From estate gardens to the simplest potager, Southerners inherit a tradition of fine gardening, and the garden holds a place of supremacy in the Southern imagination. This book illustrates a range of gardens, both grand and petite, with photos by some of the best garden photographers.

Product Details

• Published on: 2001-11-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Lydia Longshore is the Entertaining and Garden Editor at Southern Accent.

Customer Reviews

The Garden as A Life Metaphor
Lydia Longshore's, The Southern Garden, is not the typical pretty picture book about gardens. Although it is lavishly photographed, and written by a true garden lover and gardener, Longshore unflinchingly describes the breakup of her marriage and her attempts to "bring order and beauty to the bleakest of domestic moments."

Her description of her childhood, her family, her own children, and her recovery after her divorce is haunting but without a trace of self pity.

Longshore takes the idea of the garden and illustrates how much human life is truly part of the natural life: planting, growth, pruning, death -- all these events happen both in a garden and in one's life.

As profound as any book of philosophy, as well as vastly informative, and lushly romantic.