No comments about Managing Wildlife Habitat on Golf Courses.

No comments about Great Houses and Gardens of New Jersey.

No comments about Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine).

No comments about The Lower Manhattan Plan.

No comments about The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (Studies in British Art).

No comments about Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage 1870-1997 (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture).

1 comments about Bold Romantic Gardens: The New World Landscapes of Oehme and Van Sweden.

1. Photographer Susan Rademacher Fry presents almost two dozen landscape projects by Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden in a coffee-table sized book. The photos are technically excellent and effectively communicate the naturalistic language O&vS use in their projects.

   There is much emphasis on using native plants and plants that make sense in the context of the garden.Large grasses figure prominently in many of the designs. And many feature rudbeckias and sedums. The goal seems to be to knit a building seemlessly into its enviroment using appropriate garden elements.

   When it's a penthouse terrace, a sculpture or fountain and a single plant may suffice. By the shore it's giant mounds of grass waving in the sea breeze. In a wooded setting by a mountain stream the emphasis is on rocks and water.

   A number of sites are presented with sketches of the plans. Explanations, though very brief, are clear and helpful.

   At times one can't help but feel that the book is a very large, expensive, illustrated cirriculum vitae for the landscape architects; but it is clearly much more. Their love of their art comes shining through. Don't miss the compendium of of 'favorite plants' at the end of the book.

   And remember that fifteen years later one of the principles stated his regret that he'd planted quite so many rudbeckias.

1 comments about Mimmo Jodice: Visible Cities.

1. Well sometimes covers carry you away. This is by far the best photo in the book; geometric, moody, enigmatic. Most of the rest is too flat and descriptive to give you a reason to linger on any image. I was underwhelmed. A few shots in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Napoli, Italy, save the book from a 1-star.

3 comments about Ortho's All About Landscaping (Ortho's All About Gardening).

1. Hi, I'm Jo Kellum, the author of this book. In it, I take you step-by-step through the design process so you can create a yard you'll love. Fancy drawings aren't necessary, but you do need to plan before you plant and this book shows you how. Whether you need a little design advice or are planning a major landscape makeover, I think you'll find All About Landscaping helpful. I am a landscape architect myself but this book is written for everybody (no landscape experience required!)

   P.S. Write reviews and let me know what you think!

   P.P.S. If you're looking for information about how to pick the right plant for the right place and tons of how-to projects on everything from planting to pruning, check out my latest book: Landscaping 1-2-3 (The Home Depot). There are three versions of this book so you can buy the one that has the best information for your region.




2. Ok, so I decided to design my own front garden. I get sudden inspirations to do something like this and, typically, buy every book that looks reasonable on that subject that I can find. Despite it's lack of pretensions and humble origin, this book with the single most useful book I found on designing a garden. The entire design process was simply presented and gorgeously illustrated! A Really Useful Book!



3. This book not only has great information, but also, great ideas. I would reccommend it to anyone that would like get a head start on landscaping their yard.

1 comments about Peter Walker and Partners: Nasher Sculpture Center Garden: Source Books in Landscape Architecture.

1. The Nasher rocks..I love this place, from Piano's iconic building to Walker and partners perfect landscaping..oh and the art is ok too..LOL..as for this book it is very good..it is highly informative, easy to read, and the images pop off the page. I recommend it to anyone interested in landscape architecture on a grand scale, where money was no object. And if your in Dallas, if you do nothing else..visit the Nasher, it is in a word: Fabulous