Edmund Hollander and Maryanne Connelly, two of New York's most eminent landscape designers, best known for their work in the Hamptons, reveal how plants can add sensuality, texture, structure, and color to any garden.
In the twenty-plus years since its founding, Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects has consistently received American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) awards at the local and national levels each year between 2003 and 2011, demonstrating sustained recognition by its peers of its leadership in design excellence. The firm has also received awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for collaborative projects. Anne Raver has been writing about gardening and the environment for 25 years. An award-winning columnist and feature writer for Newsday and the New York Times, she lives on a farm in Maryland that has been in her family since 1795. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and has a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University; she was also a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. While tending organic hayfields and acres of native grasses that help to clean Chesapeake Bay, Anne continues to write for the New York Times, County Gardens, and Landscape Architecture.
"These two landscape architects had served as ever-patient mentors
in my early days of garden writing for Newsday, on Long
Island, when I hardly knew a perennial from a petunia, and later
for the New York Times, when I was stretching out into
writing about public parks, environmental restoration and landscape
architecture. No question was too small. No time too busy. For the
months we were working on The Good Garden, we three spent a
few hours every week talking about the essence of good design. For
instance, they may plant an allee of Natchez crepe myrtles marching
down to a Hamptons beach because these icons of such Southern
cities as Charleston and Savannah are tolerant of salt winds and
lean soils. Or they may use a single London plane tree, with its
high spreading branches, as an airy ceiling for a summer terrace.
And they'd be loath to bulldoze a cluster of wild cherry trees,
their trunks and limbs sculpted by the wind, as other designers
might do in order to create an uninterrupted lawn."
-Anne Raver, 1st Dibs' Introspective Magazine
"Known for his prolific work on the estates of New York's Long
Island, Edmund Hollander creates grand gardens to embrace the
palatial homes that dot the enclaves of the Hamptons: majestic oak
allees leading to shingled manses, sharply sculpted hedges ringing
sleek contemporary piles. In The Good Garden, Hollander
explores the alchemy that connects landscape to residence. The
volume, helpfully divided into sections by element-such as borders,
hedges, and pool plantings-offers verdant insight into the poetic
ways nature can improve and enhance architecture. It's lush, leafy
escapism of the highest order."
-Veranda
"Large or small, a pool under the sun is the quintessence of
summertime in the Hamptons. In his new book, The Good Garden,
Manhattan- and Hamptons-based landscape architect Edmund Hollander
has gathered some of the memorable pools and adjoining gardens he
and his firm have created during the past several decades. From an
infinity-eddge masterpiece with a glass wall overlooking the ocean
to a simple in-ground pool, Hollander stresses 'understanding the
human, natural, and architectrual ecology of a site.'"
-Hamptons Cottages & Gardens
"Flip through for breathtaking examples of their layered, nuanced
approach, whether the subject is a gorgeous allee of cherry trees
supplying seductive cover for a house, a clipped privet hedge
providing an architectural backdrop for a large sculpture, or a
dreamy profusion of flowering plants enclosing a swimming
pool."
-Town & Country
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