A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States

From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in a collection of essays. Through her experiences LeClercq enables the garden adventurer to anticipate the world of color, design and horticulture in each magnificent garden described. The essays are filled with history, plant lore, anecdote and gossip of the most famous public and private gardens of the United States and Europe.