Estate Gardens Of California

California has long been known as a place where dreams and fantasies are made real, and this is particularly true of its gardens, which can host a seemingly endless variety of plants from many different climates.

With color photographs on almost every page, this book showcases 15 estate gardens that are exuberantly Californian, from the classically inspired, 654-acre gardens of Filoli near San Francisco, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to the Huntington Library Gardens in San Marino, one of the premier botanical gardens in the world.

Here too is the opulent and strange but wildly popular Lotusland in Montecito, created by Madam Ganna Walska and designer Lockwood de Forest.