Winner of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award for Travel Guidebook and the first illustrated guide to the High Line, America's favorite new urban park. Thirty feet in the air, rebuilt and planted on one-and-a-half miles of abandoned, elevated railroad track snaking through Manhattan's West Side, the High Line park in NYC has turned the dream of escape offered by most urban parks inside out.The High Line invites you deeper into the city than you've ever been before. Its stunning gardens wend between warehouses and apartment buildings, through one of the world's most vibrant contemporary art districts, transforming the neighborhood and reawakening the senses of the millions of visitors it attracts every year.On the High Line is an engaging, friend-at-your-side guide to everything that a visitor sees when strolling through the park: the innovative gardens and their thousands of plants from around the world; the architecture, both old and new; and a neighborhood whose lively history includes the birth of the railroads, the Manhattan Project, S & M clubs, and the legendary Tenth Avenue Cowboy. Watch a rare 1930s video clip of the cowboy at HighLineBook.com/cowboyIllustrated with some 400 color photos by principle photographers Scott Mlyn and Juan Valentin, and including the work of noted photographer and horticulturist Rick Darke, the book also features a ten-page foldout map. On the High Line captures the countless details that make a walk here such an unforgettable experience. Find photos, videos, slideshows and information about the companion app on HighLineBook.com. Visit author Annik La Farge's blog at LivinTheHighLine.com 400+ color photographs, 10-page foldout map

Product Description: 9781604691863 Features: -Title: The New American Landscape. -Sub title: Leading Voices on the Future of Sustainable Gardening. -ISBN: 1604691867. -ISBN 13: 9781604691863. -General subject: Gardening. -Subject: Gardening / essays. Subject: -Gardening...read more

A comprehensive reference combines an alphabetical listing of hundreds of species of grasses and grass lookalikes, with detailed descriptions of each that includes information on appearance, height, spread, behavior, and hardiness, as well as more than one thousand full-color photographs and guidelines for using such plants in a variety of landscapes.

Product Description: An accessible and comprehensive reference to the wide range of striking grasses available to gardeners, this pocket guide features an assortment of plants with varied textures, forms, sizes, and flowering times. In a handy, compact format, new varieties are presented, as well as plant descriptions and cultivation information...read more

Product Description: “Quoting seminal figures....Darke reexamines the pertinence of arts and crafts ideals for our own gardens...[and] sidebar boxes...suggest[ing] specific plants and planting methods, and types of materials and decorative embellishments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Revised and expanded version of book by the same title, with search software and footnote and bookmark functions, and nearly two dozen new plants and more than 200 new color photographs not found in the book.

Product Description: With text and photography by Rick Darke, this stunning new full-color book highlights magnificently preserved or restored Arts and Crafts gardens in both England and North America, discussing the philosophy that informed their design and the place they hold within the movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to garden design explains how to create a stunning landscape using such classic plants as herbs, roses, climbers, and grasses, in a handbook featuring three hundred full-color photographs, cultivation tips, advice on selecting the right plants, and more. (view table of contents)

Shows a variety of ornamental grasses and discusses how to use them in various types of landscape

Product Description: Includes bamboos, sedges, rushes, and cat-tails in addition to descriptions of principal ornamental members of the true grasses. A valuable supplement to Rick Darke's Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses.

Shows a variety of ornamental grasses, and discusses how to use them in various types of landscape

Product Description: Includes bamboos, sedges, rushes, and cat-tails in addition to descriptions of principal ornamental members of the true grasses. A valuable supplement to Rick Darke's Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses.