Beautiful indeed: Any book with a title as cocksure as “The Most Beautiful Gardens in the World” is asking for trouble. Says who?
Apparently, author Jacques Bosser can. Putting aside the issue of who can claim that kind of authority, there’s much to recommend this round-the-globe itinerary of, at the very least, some of the most beautiful gardens in the world.
Touching down in France, we visit Versailles and Giverny, naturellement; the English garden is ably represented by Levens Hall in the Lake District and Stourhead, in the south; and amazing gardens in Russia, China and Morocco all make appearances. (The Huntington Gardens in Pasadena carry the Stars and Stripes in this multinational coalition of the tilling.) Particularly stunning are Alain le Toquin’s photographs of the Kyoto Temple gardens in Japan, where vast planes of carefully raked gray pebbles are juxtaposed with undulating fields of moss, to striking effect. The book lists at $60.
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