i read this several years ago and check it out occasionally just to look at the beautiful photos.

Felt like I was holiday...

Fabulous tour of the gardens, many of them actually not thought much of by Wharton, so it is great to have the author's perspective on these amazing places.

“The composition is simple . . . There is a quality of inevitableness about it ~ one feels of it, as of certain great verse, that it could not have been otherwise, that in Vasari’s happy phrase, it was born, not built.”

wow. Dreamiest gardens.. felt like I took a holiday whilst living in the pages.

Skimmed, since we'll only see the Boboli Gardens, most likely. A whole different gardening style to fall in love with...

I don't know how Edith Wharton went to Italy without visiting the Borghese Gardens in Rome.