Gerritsen (1948-2008) started designing the Dutch Priona gardens in 1978. He is internationally well-known as the writer of the first Piet Oudolf books and as a designer of gardens in several countries. One of his best known projects was a complete renovation of the organic gardens at Waltham Place, near London. 'Essay on Gardening' however is not a game between well-matched opponents. Nature is much more powerful than man. Thinking ahead is not sufficient; nature is an unpredictable opponent...

Kristine Miller is a professor Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and author of Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces.* Her new book will appeal to landscape, garden, and architectural historians for its new information, details about Jekyll's collaboration with the noted architects like Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Charles Holden, and never before published original drawings.* Projects: King Edward VII Sanatorium Phillips Memorial Cloist...