The Land is Full, by Nelson Byrd Woltz. The Monacelli Press, 2024
The latest book by Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW), the renowned landscape architecture firm in Charlottesville, is a celebration of parks and public gardens whose designs reflect the land’s histories. From Houston’s 1,500-acre Memorial Park to Brooklyn’s Naval Yard meadows, NBW crafts spaces that honor both natural and human history with designs weaving together indigenous heritage and threatened ecosystems into vibrant community gathering places that heal and inspire.
Charles J. Stick and His Gardens, by Jeff Poole. The Monacelli Press, 2024
Master landscape architect Charles Stick crafts aristocratic gardens that blend the Virginia Piedmont’s rolling vistas with Jeffersonian classicism. His residential masterworks—from Greenwich’s Sleepy Cat Farm to Mount Sharon near Charlottesville—weave formal plantings into natural landscapes through timeless design principles, creating spaces that honor both architecture and land. The book includes lush garden imagery from noted photographers together with Stick’s commentary, elegant pencil renderings, and plans.
This article originally appeared in the April 2025 issue.
