A Clearing in the Woods
Creating Contemporary Gardens
Photographed by Roger Foley
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $50.00
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A Clearing in the Woods, landscape photographer Roger Foley brings luxuriant green spaces, quiet water features, and colorful plantings to life. Over the past thirty years, he has collaborated with many noted landscape designers and architects, many of whom have transformed the profession with radical experimentation and diverse ideas to...
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Italian Gardens
Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age
Written by Helena Attlee
Photographed by Charles Latham
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $65.00
For centuries, the cardinals, popes, and rulers of Italy have devoted themselves to creating vast villa gardens that represent their wealth and power, provide a calm refuge from city life, and showcase lavish plantings and rare flowers. Here, in over two hundred exquisite photographs—taken during the Edwardian era when these historic...
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The Colors of Nature
Subtropical Gardens by Raymond Jungles
Written by Raymond Jungles
Foreword by Terence Riley
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $50.00
In exquisite gardens inspired by the lush native plants of his adopted home of Miami, landscape artist/architect Raymond Jungles uses nature as a means of self-expression. He is known for modernist groupings of geometric shapes, which highlight the natural aspects of plantings, water features, and native stone. His use of plants...
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Outdoors
The Garden Design Book for the Twenty-First Century
Written by Diarmuid Gavin and Terence Conran
Format: Hardcover, 271 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $60.00
The ultimate garden design book: a visual delight covering all aspects of working and living in your garden with stunning photographs of gardens from around the world.
The contemporary garden carries a profound connection both to the environment and to the range of activities—relaxing, entertaining, working—that characterize today's lifestyle. A collaboration between...
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Making the Modern Garden
Written by Christopher Bradley-Hole
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2007
Price: $45.00
A superlative analysis of contemporary gardens as well as a fascinating collection of landscapes around the world,
Making the Modern Garden is a definitive study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the...
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Allergy-Free Gardening
The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping
Written by Thomas L. Ogren
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2000
Price: $29.95
With allergy problems reaching alarming, epidemic levels, horticulturist Tom Ogren sets out to investigate the role that urban landscaping plays in this urgent health crisis. What he discovered was startling: The vastly disproportionate cultivation of all-male plant varieties produces large amounts of intensely irritating airborne pollen. This extensively researched, comprehensive, plant-by-plant...
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