'GARDENS OF THE GARDEN STATE' Book Review and Give Away

Isn't January the perfect month for reading books? And it's the perfect time for me to provide reviews for five garden and interior design books I have been holding back on. If you have been with me for awhile, you will know that once I write a review I love to give the books away.

So let's begin with a garden book and dream of flowers and their garden homes in the coldest season.

Monacelli Press takes us away with Gardens of the Garden State, by Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry with stunning photographs by Gemma Ingalls.

 The most densely populated state in the nation is aptly named 'the garden state', for a reason. It's temperate climate makes it possible to grow a wide range of plants along with a series of complex topography

 The terrain ranges from glacier swept endpoints, mountains, rolling hills, coastal plains and flat basins. I would personally love for these glacier boulders to reside in my flat Illinois garden.

 The authors selected 28 private and public gardens and began an 18 month odyssey documenting the beauty found

View formal gardens of merit to wildlife gardens to a lighthouse garden near Cape May

 The diversity of interest will captivate you and take you away, to dream and plan.

 Visit the largest public Iris garden in the country

 Most intriguing to me are the peaks into private gardens and photographers Emma and Andrew Ingalls capture them at their best, expressing the designers particular point of view

For further reviews and a guaranteed delivery see this lovely tome HERE

Now, all you have to do to win this book is leave a comment. A random generator will chose the fortunate recipient.

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Good luck!

Debra