The Tropical Garden | 
| Author: William Warren
Creators: Luca Invernizzi, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 566670
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 050028198X
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.0913022
EAN: 9780500281987
ASIN: 050028198X
Publication Date: April 2000
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Tropical gardens can contain a rich diversity of flora due to their climate, and produce some astonishing forms. This compendium presents a selection of these gardens from Hawaii, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and and Indonesia, including Bali. Traditional and modern types are considered, and the origins and individual features are discussed in full. For this revised edition, the author, William Warren and photographer, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, have added some new gardens. The book also includes a section giving information on garden features.
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Inspiration for both the armchair gardener and the serious enthusiast June 8, 2008
Photographs and descriptions of some of the loveliest gardens in Asia, both traditional and contempory, are featured in this magnificent exposition. The introduction presents a brief history of the interchange of ideas between the tropics of Asia and the exploring nations of Europe as to garden design. The featured gardens are grouped into Religious and Royal, Botanical, Colonial, and Contemporary. A final chapter on garden features showcases a number of path and walkway designs as well as ornamental sculpture, pavilions, fences, stairways, and water elements. Bibliography, index. For additional cultivation information on many of these plants, see Ornamental Plants & Flowers of Tropical Mexico.
 The Tropical Garden October 23, 2003
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Warren and Tettoni pair up again with luscious footage in The Tropical Garden. For those world travelers in whom Bali has inspired a love of tropical flowers, plants, and gardens, this book will bring back the warmth and splendor of the perpetual latitudes of summer. It contains 291 full-color illustrations of the flamboyant diversity of tropical flora in hotel, royal, religious, botanical, museum, palace, water, presidential, and colonial gardens from Bali to Java to Hawaii, Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore, and Malaysia. Warren's text and Tettoni's photographs show us a paradise of fruitful blooms and eternal abundance, with delightful coverage of well-styled Balinese gardens in Sanur and the posh Four Seasons Resort at Jimbaran Bay. Brilliant, rebellious, downtrodden French artist Paul Gaugin described an equivalent utopia in an 1890 letter penned from Tahiti: "Out there at least, with winterless skies overhead and wonderfully fertile ground underfoot, Tahitians only have to lift their arms to gather their food. . . . Whereas in Europe men and women satisfy their needs only after ceaseless toil, contending all the while with convulsions of cold and hunger, prey to poverty. The Tahitians, blessed inhabitants of Oceania's unknown paradise, know only the sweet things life has to offer. For them, life is singing and loving." Gaugin could just as well have been describing the tropical treasure that is Bali--lying succulent and verdant under the benevolent, life-giving equatorial sun.
Ordinary Tropicana July 30, 2003
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Lots of photos, could have been bigger and show more detail.
Lots of plants, but the ususal varities, not very exciting.
I live in Hawaii and most of this stuff is at Home Depot.
Charming tsxt but not helpful to the serious gardener.Nice coffee table book, will keep the rings off the table top.
Tropical Garden August 27, 2001
A beautiful book. I love the photographs. Very illustrtive and also I liked the first chapter on history. A book you can see again and again. Very relaxing.
 Just a plain decoration book ... with an attractive topic May 14, 2000
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
You will find in this books the kind of articles you read in decoration magazines. Pictures are big but don't expect any artistic originality. A useful book if you plan to plant a tropical garden in your backyard.
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