Author : Tim Richardson
Photographs : Andrea Jones
Great Gardens of America features twenty-five gardens in the United States and Canada. Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens and its International Garden Festival are one of just two gardens in Canada included in this prestigious new book (the other being Les Quatre Vents, the garden created by Francis H. Cabot in La Malbaie, Québec). It is featured alongside such gardens as Monticello in Virginia, Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. and Huntington Botanical Gardens in California.
One chapter is dedicated to the International Garden Festival, twelve pages that are beautifully illustrated with photographs by Andrea Jones. In his text describing the event Tim Richardson writes: “…It must be admitted that the venue, the Jardins de Métis on the St Lawrence River in Quebec, feels a long way from anywhere – though that is also part of its attraction… But what treats await on arrival: the garden festival at Métis… is one of the very best conceptual garden shows worldwide, with a unique selling point in that participants are encouraged to make garden installations which respond to the qualities of the existing historic garden and grand natural landscape… Métis’s particular atmosphere is tied up with its position in woodland overlooking the St. Lawrence River. Of all the garden shows, then, this is the one which seems to grapple most closely with a sense of place, actively encouraging designers to work within the geographical context... Rather than simply strolling and admiring, visitors are encouraged, even compelled, to interact, participate, exchange and reflect…”
304 pages, colours
Hardcover
Frances Lincoln
ISBN : 978-0-7112-2886-3$ 64.00
[ Back to online shopping ]