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Adrian Bloom's Year-Round Garden
Adrian Bloom
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$39.95
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Previously published in two separate volumes (Summer Garden Glory and Winter Garden Glory), this book shows the author's six-acre private garden, Foggy Bottom, throughout the year. It demonstrates the appeal and interest provided by successful plant associations and illustrates many of the varieties developed by the world-famous Blooms of Bressingham nursery that are becoming increasingly available in the U.S.
287 pp, 491 color photos, 9 x 10 1/2", hardcover, © 1998
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The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest
Rick Darke
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$49.95
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North America's eastern half, roughly from the Midwest to the Atlantic, was once a great deciduous forest. Although centuries of human intervention have cleared much of the land, the timeless forest remains in the spirit of the place. Today, even the shortest period of human neglect allows for the resurgence of the process of forest creation. The greatest gardens --- and happiest gardeners --- in this area will be those that take into account the nature of the land.
In his unique and often thought-provoking new book, award-winning author Rick Darke promotes and stunningly illustrates a garden aesthetic based on the strengths and opportunities of the woodland, including play of light, sound, and scent; seasonal drama; and the architectural interest of woody plants.
An alphabetical listing of woodland plants offers useful advice for every garden, emphasizing native trees, shrubs, vines, ferns, grasses, sedges, and flowering perennials that fit the forest aesthetic. More than 700 stunning photographs, taken by the author, show both the natural palette of plants in the wild and the effects that can be achieved with them in garden settings.
The American Woodland Garden is a clarion call to a new awareness of our relationship to the natural world. This book will take its rightful place among the classic works that have influenced our concept of the American landscape.
378 pp, 738 color photos, 2 line drawings, 1 map, 10 x 11", hardcover, © 2002
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Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes: Her Gardens and Campuses
Diana Balmori, Diane Kostial McGuire, and Eleanor M. McPeck
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$24.95
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Best known for her work at Princeton, Yale, and Dumbarton Oaks, Farrand (1872--1959), the niece of Edith Wharton, was one of the greatest of landscape designers. She synthesized the best of European traditions to create a uniquely American style.
224 pp, 15 color photos, 96 b/w illus., 7 1/2 x 9 1/4", paperback, © 1985
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A Book of Blue Flowers
Robert Geneve
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$34.95
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Perhaps the most uncommon color among plants, blue echoes the sky and adds a welcome accent to any garden. Noting that blue flowers are more common in high-altitude meadows and stream beds, the author suggests that this may account for their popularity in the cool gardens of northern Europe. This helpful survey is illustrated with more than 150 color photos of blue flowers, in shades from pale lavender to powder blue, from gardens around the world.
328 pp, 151 color photos, 6 x 9", hardcover, © 2000
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The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses: Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-tails, and Selected Bamboos
Rick Darke
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$49.95
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This is the most authoritative and best-illustrated reference ever published on ornamental grasses. At its heart is the illustrated alphabetical encyclopedia of important ornamental grasses, sedges, rushes, restios, cat-tails, and selected bamboos, with many plants illustrated in more than one season. Intended for gardeners in a wide range of situations and climates, this book is an invaluable tool for landscape architects, garden designers, nursery professionals, and home gardeners.
325 pp, 507 color photos, 10 line drawings, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1999
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Consider the Leaf: Foliage in Garden Design
Judy Glattstein |
$24.95
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What gardener hasn't been disappointed with borders after spring blooms have faded? Designing a garden with the focus on flowers is missing half the fun, according to the author, an expert plantswoman and popular horticultural educator. Working on the premise that the form of the leaf is the most important design element, Glattstein explains the basic leaf shapes and how to balance them pleasingly. Color also adds dimension to plantings, and Glattstein includes individual chapters focusing on specific tonal palettes. Each chapter is filled with plant suggestions and hints for successfully incorporating foliage into the garden. More than 110 photographs illustrate foliage effects, from subtle to dramatic. This lively and information-rich book will benefit gardeners and landscape designers alike.
308 pp, 114 color photos, 4 line drawings, 6 x 9", hardcover
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Design for Gardens
Joseph Hudak
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$29.95
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Successful garden designs offer a careful arrangement of form, texture, proportion, and color harmony. In these pages, the renowned landscape architect and horticulturist Joe Hudak provides an overview of design innovations through the ages and concludes with a personal account of his own five-year-long garden renovation project.
217 pp, 147 color photos, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 2000
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Designing with Plants
Piet Oudolf
With Noël Kingsbury
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$34.95
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Trained as an architect, Oudolf values plants as much for their form and texture as for their color. He is the founder of New Wave planting, a spectacular naturalistic style of landscape design. Oudolf stresses the importance of choosing plants that "live well and die well," so that from birth in the spring through the crescendo of summer to the stark beauty of autumn and winter the garden presents continuing drama and interest.
160 pp, 276 color photos, 9 3/8 x 11", hardcover, © 1999
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Discovering Annuals
Graham Rice
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$34.95
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In this lavishly illustrated book, Graham Rice presents his choice of the best traditional varieties of annuals and introduces us to new varieties as well as lesser-known plants.
192 pp, 214 color photos, 10 1/4 x 10 1/4", hardcover, © 1999
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The Evening Garden: Flowers and Fragrance from Dusk till Dawn
Peter Loewer
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$17.95
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It is a great irony that garden books are filled with sunny, colorful photos taken at midday, while the gardeners who tend them are usually away at work. The Evening Garden is an exciting revelation of the delights to be found in a garden that is planned and planted for evening enjoyment, from night-bloomers to fragrant orchids and wildflowers.
This is an indispensable book for any gardener who plans to venture out to the garden after sundown --- or who just likes to read about it.
272 pp, 160 b/w illus., 7 3/8 x 9 1/4", paperback, © 1993
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The Garden in Winter
Rosemary Verey
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$24.95
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Stripped of summer foliage and flowers, the secret of the successful winter garden lies in its structure and basic design. Noted English plantswoman Verey demonstrates how to create an elegant framework for visual interest even when the garden is enveloped by a mantle of snow.
168 pp, 137 color photos, 10 1/4 x 10 1/4", paperback, © 1988
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Gardening in the Shade
Harriet K. Morse
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$13.95
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For two generations, gardeners who have faced the challenges of growing an interesting variety of plants in shady conditions have turned to this classic little book for suggestions and solutions.
242 pp, 32 b/w photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", paperback, © 1939, 1962
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Gardens in China
Peter Valder
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$49.95
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In this new companion book to The Garden Plants of China, Peter Valder describes more than 200 gardens he has visited in China. He documents temple courtyards and gardens, evocative enclosures of ancient burial grounds and imperial tombs, and public parks, botanical gardens, and arboreta, most of which have sprung up since 1949.
Gardens in China includes more than 500 color photographs, many depicting gardens not previously illustrated in any Western publication, as well as reproductions of illustrations of historical interest. With their distinctive characteristics, the gardens of China are among the most fascinating in the world. This book is essential reading for visitors to China with an interest in gardens, garden history, and Chinese culture.
400 pp, 500 color photos, 1 map, 8 1/2 x 11 1/4", hardcover, © 2002
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The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx
Sima Eliovson
Foreword by Roberto Burle Marx
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$49.95
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The great Brazilian landscape architect's bold use of striking plant materials made him the most influential designer since Gertrude Jekyll. This study, done with Burle Marx's cooperation, traces the roots of his artistic vision and illustrates the plants he grew for use in his own designs.
240 pp, 163 color photos, 7 garden plans, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1991
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The Harmonious Garden: Color, Form, and Texture
Catherine Ziegler
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$44.95
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This uniquely practical guide tells how to compose satisfying plant arrangements by balancing textures and forms along with color values. The author's 16-color wheel encourages a greater sensitivity to subtleties of hue and tint.
304 pp, 149 color photos, 151 b/w illus., 2 maps, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 1996
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Herbs in Bloom: A Guide to Growing Herbs as Ornamental Plants
Jo Ann Gardner
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$34.95
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Herbs in Bloom presents 80 of the author's favorites, based on more than 25 years' experience as an herb grower, with some mention of more than 700 related species and cultivars. Emphasis is on ornamental qualities and garden uses of the herbs described, with detailed suggestions on how best to grow them from seed or from cuttings, but it also includes a good deal of history and lore, and even the occasional recipe.
394 pp, 117 color photos, 10 line drawings, 6 x 9", hardcover, © 1998
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Making Gardens: An Essential Guide to Planning and Planting
Patrick Taylor |
$29.95
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Making Gardens shows that, by looking at well-made gardens and analyzing the nature of their design, any gardener can learn from other people's experiences. Patrick Taylor presents color photos of 40 gardens, most of them private and designed by amateurs. In each example the site, materials, and plants are analyzed in detail. A catalog of the hundreds of plants mentioned in the garden examples gives useful cultivation details.
224 pp, 136 color photos, 40 color illus., 7 1/2 x 10 1/4", hardcover, © 1998
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Natural Gardening in Small Spaces
Noël Kingsbury
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$29.95
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With the growing recognition that a wisely and sensitively planted garden has a lot to offer to wildlife and the food web, more and more people are looking for ways to make their gardens environmentally friendly. However, gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. In Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, renowned plantsman Noël Kingsbury refutes that presumption, showing how even in a small garden you can create a sustainable ecosystem that looks great --- and, once established, largely looks after itself. More than 150 glorious photographs of small natural gardens provide visual confirmation of Noël Kingsbury's contention that even the smallest garden can provide a natural haven.
160 pp, 152 color photos, 12 diagrams, 9 x 10 5/8", hardcover
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The Natural History of a Garden
Colin Spedding and Geoffrey Spedding |
$24.95
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To see wildlife in your garden you have to know what is there, what it looks like, and what it might be doing at any given time. The book opens with advice on how to hone observational skills so you recognize not just the insects but also their predators, and take note of the diversity of pollinators from the familiar honeybees to the low-temperature bumblebees and late-night moths. Discussions of plants and animals are followed by similarly detailed studies of soil, seasonal change, ecology, water, and garden visitors. The book's principles apply to gardens anywhere in the world, although the species and events observed will obviously vary with each garden's location. The Natural History of a Garden will enhance the garden naturalist's awareness with its strange-but-true facts, extraordinary statistics, and fascinating revelations into how a garden works.
approx. 256 pp, 35 color photos, numerous line drawings, 6 x 9", hardcover
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Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths: Warm-Climate Plants for Cooler Areas
1st ed.
David A. Francko |
$27.95
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Palms that grow in Canada? Bananas that overwinter in Michigan? How about southern crape myrtles that flower in Birmingham, England, instead of Birmingham, Alabama? Although the voice of authority --- and nursery labels --- might say, "You can't grow those plants here," author Dave Francko has a different message for gardeners: "Plants can't read the information on their tags." Laced with humorous anecdotes and based on years of first-hand observations and research, this book provides real-world information to help adventurous gardeners grow plants they never before dreamed possible. Nobody who reads this book will ever look at a plant label the same way again.
308 pp, 78 color photos, 1 map, 31 b/w photos, 2 tables, 6 x 9", hardcover
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Plants for Problem Places
Graham Rice |
$19.95
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For each of 13 troublesome situations---from heavy clay soil to a north-facing wall---the author explains the nature of the problem, prescribes a remedy, and suggests the trees, shrubs, climbers, and perennials to make the best of the situation.
184 pp, 39 color photos, 34 line drawings, 6 x 9 1/4", paperback, © 1988
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Pocket Guide to Choosing Woody Ornamentals
Gerd Krüssmann
Edited and translated by Michael E. Epp
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$12.95
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No landscaper should venture onto a new site without a copy of this handy little jewel. It furnishes lists of plants by dozens of characteristics, from fragrance to habit to color of blossoms, and is the perfect tool for choosing plants for any particular need.
140 pp, 25 charts, 4 1/2 x 7", paperback, © 1970, 1982
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Reflecting Nature: Garden Designs from Wild Landscapes
Jerome Malitz and Seth Malitz
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$39.95
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This provocative photographic essay by a talented father-son team focuses on a variety of natural landscapes---permutations of water, rocks, forests, and meadows---and shows how they can be echoed in smaller garden settings.
267 pp, 135 color photos, 10 3/8 x 7 3/8", hardcover, © 1998
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Some Branch Against the Sky: The Practice and Principles of Marginal Gardening
Geoffrey F. Dutton
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$29.95
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A truly intriguing, poetic, and thought-provoking book. The author lives in the Scottish highlands, with poor soil and a harsh climate. His "marginal" garden by design differs as little as possible from the surrounding wildness and requires little maintenance, yet satisfies the essential requirement of any garden by giving its owner pleasure.
207 pp, 11 b/w photos, 8 diagrams, 6 x 9 1/4", hardcover, © 1997
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Trees in the Landscape
Graham Stuart Thomas
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$35.00
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This book addresses the uses of trees in the larger landscape. It reflects Thomas's artist's eye in its emphasis on the composition of trees for visual harmony. His principles and perceptions are applicable everywhere.
222 pp, 33 color photos, 109 b/w illus., 7 1/4 x 9 1/2", hardcover, © 1983
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Urban Sanctuaries: Peaceful Havens for the City Gardener
Stephen Anderton
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$29.95
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By presenting examples of innovative designs from both private and communal inner-city gardens all over the world, this book invites urban gardeners everywhere to create an inspiring outdoor haven even in very limited spaces.
Examples include low-maintenance minimalist gardens, family-friendly havens, gardens with soothing water features, roof terraces and balcony retreats, and indoor-outdoor rooms.
0-88192-502-0, 144 pp, 148 color photos, 4 color plans, 4 b/w plans, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 2001
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The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs
Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Foreword by C. Colston Burrell
Illustrations by Megan H. King, Martin Knapp, and Stacey Renee Peters |
$39.95
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The Well-Designed Mixed Garden is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants of all kinds (hence the "mixed garden" of the title), it reflects decades of professional experience and artistic innovation. As with her bestselling book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, master designer and plantswoman Tracy DiSabato-Aust provides not only inspiration but also scrupulously organized information on design and connoisseur plants --- all from original research dating back to her degree work in horticulture.
Her new offering is a master class of design fundamentals, with an emphasis on often-neglected topics, such as site evaluation, color theory, and planning for maintenance. It is also a gallery of detailed design plans that show how ideas are put onto paper and then translated into three dimensions. Lessons learned in its first two parts are strengthened in an "Encyclopedia of Plant Combinations"; each entry notes the design considerations at play and provides tips on how to keep the combination looking its best. And the lifetime care needs and unique design characteristics of featured plants are summarized in the useful charts and lists that conclude the book. The result is a nearly foolproof guide to every aspect of designing superior gardens with superior plants. With more than 250 color photos and illustrations, this book is as much a feast for the eyes as it will be a trusted reference for the library shelf.
460 pp, 227 color photos, 17 color illus., 2 b/w illus., 1 map, 10 x 11", hardcover
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques
Tracy DiSabato-Aust
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$29.95
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Timber Press's all-time bestseller! Tracy DiSabato-Aust has devoted years of study to creating showplace gardens with minimal maintenance. Her methods of pruning and shaping perennials, thoroughly explained and illustrated here, produce more flowers, encourage lush new growth, discourage pests, stagger bloom times, and maintain vigorous health. Readers have given us rave reviews of this book since publication.
338 pp, 131 color photos, 20 line drawings, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 1998
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