BOOKS OF INTEREST

CHARLES J. STICK AND HIS GARDENS BY JEFF POOLE; NEW YORK: THE MONACELLI PRESS, 2024; 224 PAGES, $59.95. More than a dozen projects are featured in Charles J. Stick and His Gardens, each one lushly planted and richly illustrated with photography and drawings. Featured projects give insight into the work of the Virginia-based landscape architect Charles J. Stick, whose formal, classical approach references works by Thomas Jefferson, Palladio, and Russell Page. Stick’s design for the historic Mount Sharon estate near Charlottesville, Virginia, for example, preserves original intentions of the terraced garden while expanding the 19th-century vocabulary into a fantasy of boxwood parterre and pergolas. DEREK JARMAN’S GARDEN: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION BY DEREK JARMAN, WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY HOWARD SOOLEY; PORTLAND, OREGON: TIMBER PRESS, 2025; 148 PAGES, $30. The filmmaker, artist, and…