{"product_id":"9780820353005","title":"Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia's Historic Gardens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeking Eden\u003c\/i\u003e promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication \u003ci\u003eGarden History of Georgia, 1733–1933\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSeeking Eden\u003c\/i\u003e records each garden’s evolution and history as well as each garden’s current early twenty-first-century appearance, as beautifully documented in photographs. Dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, these publicly and privately owned gardens include nineteenth-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place–era landscapes, rock gardens, historic town squares, college campuses, and an urban conservation garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeking Eden\u003c\/i\u003e explores the significant impact of the women who envisioned and nurtured many of these special places; the role of professional designers, including J. Neel Reid, Philip Trammel Shutze, William C. Pauley, Robert B. Cridland, the Olmsted Brothers, Hubert Bond Owens, and Clermont Lee; and the influence of the garden club movement in Georgia in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFEATURED GARDENS:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Low House and Garden | Savannah\u003cbr\u003eAshland Farm | Flintstone\u003cbr\u003eBarnsley Gardens | Adairsville\u003cbr\u003eBarrington Hall and Bulloch Hall | Roswell\u003cbr\u003eBattersby-Hartridge Garden | Savannah\u003cbr\u003eBeech Haven | Athens\u003cbr\u003eBerry College: Oak Hill and House o’ Dreams | Mount Berry\u003cbr\u003eBradley Olmsted Garden | Columbus\u003cbr\u003eCator Woolford Gardens | Atlanta\u003cbr\u003eCoffin-Reynolds Mansion | Sapelo Island\u003cbr\u003eDunaway Gardens | Newnan vicinity\u003cbr\u003eGovernor’s Mansion | Atlanta\u003cbr\u003eHills and Dales Estate | LaGrange\u003cbr\u003eLullwater Conservation Garden | Atlanta\u003cbr\u003eMillpond Plantation | Thomasville vicinity\u003cbr\u003eOakton | Marietta\u003cbr\u003eRock City Gardens | Lookout Mountain\u003cbr\u003eSalubrity Hall | Augusta\u003cbr\u003eSavannah Squares | Savannah\u003cbr\u003eStephenson-Adams-Land Garden | Atlanta\u003cbr\u003eSwan House | Atlanta\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of Georgia: North Campus, the President’s House and Garden, and the Founders Memorial Garden | Athens\u003cbr\u003eValley View | Cartersville vicinity\u003cbr\u003eWormsloe and Wormsloe State Historic Site | Savannah vicinity\u003cbr\u003eZahner-Slick Garden | Atlanta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008062767344,"sku":"9780820353005","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780820353005_p0.jpg?v=1763755092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780820353005","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}