A survey of thirty well-conceived and beautiful contemporary
landscapes and gardens in which design is driven first and foremost
by ecologically appropriate plant selection. In contemporary
American garden design, beauty for beauty's sake is making a
comeback. The sixty gardens featured here trace current planting
trends across the country, showcasing the best designs of recent
years from the verdant Pacific Northwest to the tailored Eastern
Seaboard, as well as prairies in Denver and Texas and exquisitely
detailed private gardens in the Southwest that create a sense of
lushness even while working exclusively within the vocabulary of
cactuses and succulents. Plants are used to reinforce meaningful
content, ecological strategies, and, most importantly, to create
immersive and emotional experiences. As the movements of
architectural, naturalistic, meadow, matrix, graphic, and
ecological planting design have been adopted in such notable
incarnations as the High Line in New York and Citygarden in St.
Louis, they have rekindled interest in using plants that suit a
given site's ecology - and in letting plants, rather than hardscape
elements, lead design. Residential as well as public gardens are
featured, and all are united by an immediately perceptible,
intelligent selection of plants that create an enthralling,
memorable, and fitting sense of place: this is what makes a garden
truly authentic. Over 250 full-color images reveal gardens created
by the top American firms working today, including Andrea Cochran,
Jack deLashmet, Doyle Herman, Elysian Landscapes, Gustafson Guthrie
Nichol, Hoerr Schaudt, Ron Lutsko, Steve Martino, Nelson Byrd
Woltz, Nievera Williams, Oehme van Sweden, OLIN, Raymond Jungles,
Christine Ten Eyck, Bernard Trainor, and Michael Vergason, as well
as beautiful gems of gardens by lesser known regional firms. Detail
as well as overview images of gardens throughout the seasons and
abundant plant identifications make this volume a valuable
reference for all home gardeners as well as landscape design
professionals interested in tracing the themes prevalent in
contemporary American gardens.
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