2016 PHS Flower Show National Parks: Books on National Parks

By camouflaging herself, Clara Caterpillar, who becomes a cream-colored butterfly, courageously saves Catisha the crimson-colored butterfly from a hungry crow.

Presents a guide to some of the national parks of the United States, designated by state, and includes information on the history of each site and the plants and animals that can be found there.

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A Japanese garden is immediately distinct to the eye from the traditional gardens of an English manor house, just as the manicured topiaries of Versailles contrast with the sharp cacti of the American Southwest. Though gardening is beloved the world over, the style of gardens themselves varies from region to region, determined as much by culture as climate. In this series of illustrated essays, John Dixon Hunt takes us on a world tour of different periods in the making of gardens. --Amazon.com

Since its founding in 1916, the National Park Service has been charged with two equally important and often conflicting missions: to preserve our country’s natural wonders for future generations and to develop national parks for the appreciation and enjoyment of visitors. Recalling the era of the great lodges at Yellowstone and Yosemite, Building the National Parks tells the story of how the new bureau’s landscape designers, architects, and engineers met each of these challenges, forging a rich legacy of buildings, roads, and trails that both harmonized with the natural scenery and accommodated visitors to the parks. Their achievements - detailed for the first time here - have greatly influenced the design of state and local parks and other recreational areas across the United States.

Renowned for its scenic beauty, Glacier National Park is also a unique scientific resource, rich in biological diversity. This comprehensive field guide provides a listing of all the vascular plants currently known to occur in the Park and will prove useful in the study of plants throughout the entire northern Rocky Mountains, including Alberta's Waterton Lakes National Park.

The romance of the West is nowhere so compelling as in its irreplaceable architecture: a silvery log cabin perched at 12,000 feet; a steeple-topped chalet beside an alpine lake. The culmination of a decade of research, Landmarks in the Landscape unveils this oft overlooked national treasure, visiting each of the Western national parks. Amidst majestic settings we discover the history of great dreams in the early West, including the struggles and triumphs of John Muir, Stephen Mather of the National Park Service, and architects Underwood and Colter. From the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula to the sienna walls of the Grand Canyon, this comprehensive, extravagantly illustrated survey will thrill all who admire the rugged beauty of the West. --Amazon.com

Completely revised for its fourth edition, National Parks: The American Experience tells the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning and management of these treasured lands. Lavishly illustrated with period photographs, including eight pages of color paintings, National Parks: The American Experience has never been more beautiful or profound. This remains a stirring look into the lands that define America, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to wilderness Alaska. This is how we got our parks, and yes, how we have occasionally failed them, and when doing so how we have failed ourselves. "Civilization is the problem parks solve," Runte writes. At times, the national parks may seem as imperfect as they are exceptional; the point is that they are all we will ever have. Knowing that earlier America, and planning for the new America, still demands our humility to advance the best of both. --Amazon.com

A project of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, Library of American Landscape History, Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill, Cultural Landscape Foundation

A guide for arts professionals and volunteers creating public art in their communities. It offers information on a variety of topics such as: public art planning, funding, and governance; and, establishing legal agreements with artists. It is intended as a resource for information on public art for arts agencies and arts professionals.

Standards for the treatment of historic properties.

With rare images, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and fascinating background information drawn from the archives of the renowned PHS McLean Library, this photographic history of the Philadelphia Flower Show traces nearly two centuries of magnificent displays and generations of designers, exhibitors, florists, horticulturists, gardeners, and volunteers who have collaborated on the extraordinary production. With a foreword by PHS president Drew Becher, this book also documents the amazing impact of the Philadelphia Flower Show, which supports the year-round PHS programs that have become national models for community greening and the beautification of urban landscapes.

The Philadelphia Flower Show is a visual celebration of the world's most spectacular indoor flower show. Organized by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the event is staged each year in early March and attracts some 300,000 visitors to the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

Covering more than ten indoor acres, the event features a breathtaking array of horticultural subjects. Included are elaborate flower-filled landscapes with blossoming trees, exquisite floral arrangements, impeccably groomed perennials, cacti and other succulents, orchids, topiary, bonsai, and much more. All proceeds of the Show are dedicated to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's education and urban beautification programs.

This beautiful book is a behind-the-scenes tour of the Show with interviews and profiles of exhibitors, organizers, and designers. Lavish full-color photographs of the prizewinning plants and large displays capture the proceedings in stunning detail. Also included is a brief history of the Show along with a passionate foreword by gardening guru Ken Druse that captures what makes the Show so compelling and popular year after year.

Wonderful stories, inspiring advice, and gorgeous photography combine to make The Philadelphia Flower Show the ultimate companion to the greatest plant and flower show on earth.