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Gardens of the Wine Country

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Visit the most exclusive and spectacular gardens of the California Napa Valley, where fragrant flowers, enchanting pathways, and astonishing vistas await at every turn. Gardens of the Wine Country transports you to this lovely region’s 40 most glorious private gardens. Molly Chappellet and Richard Tracy walk us through the regal grounds of Beaulieu Vineyard and Francis and Eleanor Coppola’s Victorian paradise. We tour the secluded gardens of Peter Newton, stroll among hundreds of rose bushes at the home of Maria Minetti Farrow, and call on many other gorgeous estates. Page after page of lush photographs reveal beautiful verandahs and solariums, ponds and boxwood hedges, wild vines and tailored flower beds. Gardens of Wine Country offers abundant evidence of the joyful dedication that this kind of fertile region can inspire in those who love gardens.
The Napa Valley is a famous vintner’s paradise, with its long, warm summers and mild winters. Naturally, this also makes it a gardener’s paradise, and longtime Napa winery owner Molly Chappellet has an intimate knowledge of each nook and cranny of this horticultural Eden. Napa Valley’s oldest gardens were planted around 1860, at about the same time grapevines were introduced to the region, and though there are just a handful of these, their enormous oaks and antique roses perfectly fit the image of old Napa homesteads. The gardens at Schramsberg, Beaulieu, Spottswoode, Krug, and the Niebaum estate (now owned by Francis and Eleanor Coppola), to drop a couple of well-known winery names, fall into this category.

Chappellet and her collaborator, Richard Tracy, define “new gardens” as those developed since 1960, some by the enthusiastic new winemakers who brought new life to the Napa region. These gardens are a large number of, breathtakingly beautiful, and have it seems that provided abundant employment to numerous talented landscape designers over the past three decades. In many cases, a heroic amount of work used to be done to tame, for example, a rocky hillside into a proper Mediterranean-style villa garden, and Chappellet and Tracy note the main points down to the individual plant names. The a large number of color photographs, clearly frequently taken at daybreak and just before sunset, blow their own horns the calm, lush gardens to perfection.

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