Book Review: Design Your Garden
Karen Designing a garden may be an overwhelming task and Diarmuid Garvin’s book,Design Your Garden, can be a great help. Whether you are starting from scratch or redoing an old garden…
Book Review: Contemporary Designers Own Gardens
Have you ever wondered what the garden of a famous garden designer’s garden looks like? Is it like the commissioned ones? Totally different? Or somewhere in between? Barbara Baker’s book,…
Book Review: Backyard Blueprints
If you have a small backyard with little charm but also harbor a big desire for a private paradise, consider this very helpful book by David Stevens. In Backyard Blueprints,…
Book Review: Garden Design
Whether you want an English style garden, a Japanese garden or a prairie garden there are certain underlying design principles that will lead to success. Sylvia Crowe, a distinguished and…
Book Review: Southeast Home Landscaping
A country as large as the United States includes many different climate zones so a book dealing with a specific area has great potential for planning a garden. Heat combined…
Book Review: Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love
A home is more than just a house; it is the landscape around the house too. With this premise author, Julie Moir Messervy, takes the reader of Home Outside: Creating…
Book Review: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning
Garden design can mean many different things to different people but to author Julie Moir Messervy, it is a journey of discovery. It involves looking within ourselves and creating a…
Book Review: Designing with Succulents
Succulents are the plants that my grandmother grew in pots on the stairs in the front of her house. She hardly ever watered them and or paid much attention to…
Considerations For Locating a Lawn
Many people have a lawn in the front of their house. It makes the home look better, more attractive and inviting. The backyard is also a favorite place for a…
Botany for Gardeners: The Leaf-Texture
Texture is one of several leaf characteristics that is used for plant identification, but it is even more important in garden design. Leaves may be leathery, hairy, smooth and shiny,…