6 Great Books for Gardeners
Gardenscapes
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By Lynn Geesaman
"Does it make sense to say 'the longing of a path?" asks Verlyn Klinkenborg in his opening meditation on Lynn Geesaman's Gardenscapes (Aperture), a book of painterly photographs of formal gardens and parks. A clump of trees appearing like a mirage on a hillside in Tayside, Scotland, or fallen camellia blossoms, like perfect tiny brushstrokes of red paint, on Avery Island in Louisiana, are as luminous as they are masterfully rendered. — Cathleen Medwick
"Does it make sense to say 'the longing of a path?" asks Verlyn Klinkenborg in his opening meditation on Lynn Geesaman's Gardenscapes (Aperture), a book of painterly photographs of formal gardens and parks. A clump of trees appearing like a mirage on a hillside in Tayside, Scotland, or fallen camellia blossoms, like perfect tiny brushstrokes of red paint, on Avery Island in Louisiana, are as luminous as they are masterfully rendered. — Cathleen Medwick
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