Castle Garden and Battery Park

Castle Garden and Battery Park
Author: Barry Moreno
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738549613

Few buildings in Manhattan have had a richer and more varied life than 200-year-old Castle Clinton, the magnificent red sandstone structure that lies in historic Battery Park. Although originally built as a fortress just before the outbreak of the War of 1812, its actual fame rests on the years when it was known worldwide as Castle Garden, a name that underlined its intimate connection with the surrounding park. Under that name, it served successively as Manhattan's preeminent public events hall and theater (1824-1855), then as America's first great landing place for millions of immigrants (1855-1890), and finally as the oldest and grandest municipal aquarium in the United States (1896-1941). Castle Garden and Battery Park invites readers to step back in time and dip into this legendary monument's dramatic story and learn how it has managed to survive into the 21st century.

The Gilded Hour

The Gilded Hour
Author: Sara Donati
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2015
Genre: Historical fiction
ISBN: 0425271811

Haunted by childhood losses in spite of successful medical careers in 1883 New York City, surgeon Anna Savard and her obstetrician cousin, Sophie, consider taking in a child and helping a desperate young mother, while avoiding dangerous anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock.

A Casterglass Garden

A Casterglass Garden
Author: Kate Hewitt
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1956387242

Meet the Penryns… The Penryn family have always been eccentric—living in a dilapidated castle in the wilds of Cumbria with an orchid-mad father and a classicist mother who likes to re-enact Greek myths, who wouldn’t be? Penniless and proud, Walter Penryn refuses to give up his birthright—until taxes, bills, and the need for a new roof force him to reconsider. Now the family is restoring the castle, and Olivia Penryn is in charge of reviving the once-profitable garden. Nursing a broken heart and a guilty conscience, Olivia longs to lose herself in roses and lavender, but she’s filled with doubt. She’s never handled a project this massive. When Olivia hires the gorgeous Will Turner to help with landscaping, her bruised heart begins to heal—and hope. A widower and father of two, Will has plenty of his own problems. Is he strong enough to take on Olivia’s? As his children become attached to this loving, ethereal beauty, he wonders if their wounded hearts can blossom like the flowers surrounding them—or will hidden secrets and old mistakes cost them a second chance at happiness?

A Castle in England

A Castle in England
Author: Jamie Rhodes
Publisher: Nobrow
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN: 9781910620199

A unique and fascinating series of short stories taking place over five different eras in a English castles past.

Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst

Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst
Author: Vita Sackville-West
Publisher: Virago
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1405517956

From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer describing her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with colour and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance. Sissinghurst has gone on to become one of the most visited and inspirational gardens in the world and this marvellous book, illustrated with drawings and original photographs throughout, shows us how it was created and how gardeners everywhere can use some of the ideas from both Sarah Raven and Vita Sackville-West.

Secret Garden of Survival

Secret Garden of Survival
Author: Rick Austin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2012-12-25
Genre: Edible forest gardens
ISBN: 9781481839778

Imagine a food garden that you only have to plant once in your life-time, that takes up very little space, that will provide food for you and your family for the next 30 years; that can grow five times more food per square foot than traditional or commercial gardening; and where you never have to weed, never have to use fertilizers and never have to use pesticide-- ever. All diguised as overgrown underbrush, so nobody knows you have food growing there! This book will show you how to do it in one growing season!

The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle

The Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle
Author: Anna Keay
Publisher: Historic England Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781848020344

The garden created by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, at Kenilworth Castle in the early 1570s was one of the wonders of Elizabethan England. This beautifully illustrated book presents the extensive research that went into English Heritage's ambitious re-creation of the garden in 2009 anddescribes the process by which the new garden was designed.

Landscape of Dreams

Landscape of Dreams
Author: Isabel Bannerman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: 9781910258606

Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been described as "mavericks in the grand manner, touched by genius" (Min Hogg, World of Interiors) and "the Bonnie and Clyde of garden design" (Ruth Guilding, The Bible of British Taste). Their approach to design, while rooted in history and the classical tradition, is fresh, eclectic and surprising. They designed the British 9/11 Memorial Garden in New York and have also designed gardens for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove and the Castle of Mey, Lord Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel Castle in Sussex and John Paul Getty II at Wormsley in Buckinghamshire. The garden they made for themselves at Hanham Court near Bath was acclaimed by Gardens Illustrated as the top garden of 2009, ahead of Sissinghurst. When they moved from Hanham it was to the fairytale castle of Trematon overlooking Plymouth Sound, where they have created yet another magical garden. Landscape of Dreams celebrates the imaginative and practical process of designing, making and planting all of these gardens, and many more.

Highgrove

Highgrove
Author: HRH. GUINNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES (BUNNY.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-27
Genre: Gardens
ISBN: 9781399617062

Castles of Scotland

Castles of Scotland
Author: Martin Coventry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781899874248

A must for all those who want to visit Scotland's many castles. The book covers all of the coutry's famous strongholds, as well as many lesser-known places, with location, access, visitor facilities, and contact details. There is a map, many photos, a glossary of architectural terms, and a family-name index, allowing the reader to identify any castle associated with their family.