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WHEN the American etcher and landscape painter Charles A. Platt took his younger brother on a six-month tour of the great Renaissance villas of Italy in 1892, he was intent […]

Reports on the public parks being constructed around New York. Trends in landscape architecture embraced by the landscape artists in the area; Michael Van Valkenburgh as the landscape architect heading the Brooklyn Bridge Park project; Features of the Queens Plaza project.

Focuses on the work of landscape architect and preservationist Charles Birnbaum. Discussion of how may significant historic landscapes across the United States are abandoned and neglected; Focus on the Nations Bank Park Plaza in Tampa, Florida; Proposal for a museum expansion and parking overhaul at the park; Comments on the issue from Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Other landscapes designed by significant landscape architects at risk, such as Freeway Park in Seattle.

IT'S rather jolly having a former administrator of a public garden talk you into buying some kooky little kalanchoes to put in a pot. ''I thought it would be interesting watching the little ones bulk up and start to push against each other,'' said Robert Hyland, a former vice president at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, as we stared down at nine flapjack plants (Kalanchoe luciae), their fleshy round leaves looking a bit small for their big square clay pot. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article features the beautiful sloping woodland landscape called Bird Hill surrounding the house of C. Colston Burrell which is situated on the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Native plants are Burrell's passion but his current obsession is the hellebore.

Introduces new products such as plants, soil amendments, misting devices and netting from Moss Acres for gardening.

Features the beautiful garden of Holly and Osamu Shimizu in Glen Echo, Maryland.

Features the gardens developed by former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tom Armstrong in Fishers Island, New York. After a fire consumed the house architect Tom Phifer designed a transparent glass house to frame views of geometric gardens, water and sky; Landscape description; Statement of Armstrong on the pleasures brought by landscaping unused acres; Art techniques applied in landscaping.

Highlights the exhibition "Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape," organized by Peter Reed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Creation of park at the Fresh Kills garbage dump by landscape architect James Corner in Staten Island; Inclusion of the Fresh Kills in the landscapes featured in the exhibition; Celebration of the power of landscape design to counter violence and decay.

Profiles Vermont artist Michael Singer and his building designs. Background on his career; Comments of Singer; Changes to his work space when he moved from New York City to Wilmington, Vermont; Influences of nature; How Singer's work is evolving; Descriptions of his landscape designs and urban planning; Examples of his building designs; Topic of space.

Profiles American-born landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson. Competition she won in 2002 for the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, which opened last week in London; Her newest creation, a 2.5-acre garden in Millennium Park, Chicago; Features of the garden including a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and silvery music pavilion by Frank Gehry; Dense hedgerow and 15-foot-high steel frames; Other projects.

Discusses how residents in Southampton, New York have differing views about the appropriate appearance of their hedges. Debates concerning nature versus nurture; Consideration of class consciousness and aesthetics; Variety of architectural designs which can be used on privet hedges; How landscape artist Perry Guillot created watercolors of hedges for the book 'The Common Privet of Southampton.'

Focuses on the landscape architecture of the public gardens in the Battery located at the tip of Manhattan (N.Y.). Comments from Warrie Price, president of the Battery Conservancy; How the conservancy chose Piet Oudolf, a Dutch designer and nurseryman, to redesign the landscape of the Battery; Other public and private garden designs by Oudolf; Discussion of perennial beds and hedges.

Profiles landscape architect Ken Smith. Examples of public spaces he has created in New York City; His work restoring the landscape at Lever House, a skyscraper on Park Avenue; Smith's versatility in his approach to projects; Comments of Smith; Description of his Dumpster gardens; Biographical and career highlights; Sources of his inspirations; Life style.

Discusses how Key West landscape architect Raymond Jungles is restoring a sense of wildness to Florida through lawn design. Description of the landscape around his house, which includes South American palm trees and Asian bamboo; Comments of Jungles; How he was inspired by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx; Details of landscape designs he has created for various Florida residents.

Gives pieces of advice on landscape gardening.

Focuses on garden paths. Importance of paths to a small garden; Details of paths in the Madoo Conservancy, the garden of painter Robert Dash that he has opened to the public; Use of setts, squares and rectangles of concrete, in the creation of a path; Mention of Dash's book 'Notes From Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons'; History of the paths.

Focuses on the attempts of sculptor and landscape architect Julie Bargmann to clean up polluted waterways in the United States. Description of the mining town Vintondale, which is located in southwest Pennsylvania; How scientists, historians, artists and architects are combining efforts to reclaim wastelands without erasing history; Reclamation of steel mills, coal mines, oil refineries and plastics factories.

Profiles Dan Kiley, master landscape architect. Description of his property in Charlotte, Vermont which his wife named Camp David; Details of their 50 years of marriage and life together; Biographical information on Kiley and discussion of his work at the Miller house in Columbus, Indiana.

Focuses on the landscape architecture of Peter Latz. Transformation of a ruined industrial site at his Duisburg Nord project on the Emscher River between Duisburg and Dortmund, Germany; Inspiration of Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington; Latz's comments about industrial landscapes made at a meeting of the Architectural League of New York; His background and other projects.

Describes Innisfree, a 950-acre valley of lake and woods in Dutchess County, New York. Details of original owners and landscape architects; Infusion of Eastern school of landscape designing; Description of landscaping; Role of Lester Collins in garden design; Views of Collins' widow and son on his involvement in the garden; Garden design background of Collins; Details of Collin's book, `Innisfree: An American Garden'.

Considers landscape architecture in New York City. M. Paul Friedberg's 1967 design for the playground at Public School 166 on West 89th Street; The glade of tall, thin sycamores at Lincoln Center; Reasons why landscapes often do not receive attention.