Perennial Gardens: Great Ideas and Projects for Glorious Color Year After Year (Better Homes & Gardens)
Better Homes and Gardens Books

Better Homes and Gardens, 2001

Inspiring: 15 gardens representing all climates. Hardworking: how to build handsome hardscape features. Practical: how to plant, maintain, and multiply perennials. Easy plant identification: common and botanical names cross-referenced; detailed descriptions. Dozens of tips that ensure perennials flourish year after year. 150 photographs of richly hued plants and garden settings.
  
  











  



  
The Garden Trellis: Designs to Build and Vines to Cultivate3 reviews
Ferris Cook

Artisan, 1996

Building a Garden Trellis

This is a very nice book with excellent illustrations and descriptions of different climbing vines that can be used on a trellis. It also includes pictures of nine trellises that you can build yourself, with the dimensions for each one. A background in woodworking is helpful. The instructions ...
  
  











  



  
Garden Design Details4 reviews
Arne Maynard, Anne De Verteuil

Collins Design, 2004

Insightful and understandable write...

+ Ideas Abound
+ **Inspired and Conceivable Designs**

The book describes function and meaning of landscape elements insightfully yet digested and understandable. This book is useful for both beginner and advance landscape designer. In addition, gists and tips in this book are also useful for public space and urban designer. Picture are well arrange ...
  
  











  



  
Your House, Your Garden: A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design6 reviews
Gordon Hayward

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

This book is so good I am buying a second copy

+ One of the best
+ A Map for a magnificient yard
+ American Horticultural Society Book Award
  
  











  



  
The Essential Garden Design Workbook7 reviews
Rosemary Alexander

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2004

Excellent for even experienced landscape professionals

+ Garden Design
+ For the professional as well as the do-it-yourselfer...
+ A good and very practical garden design book
+ Excellent presentation
  
  











  



  
World of Garden Design: Inspiring Ideas from Around the Globe to Your Backyard4 reviews
Susan Dooley, Editors of Garden Design Magazine

Chronicle Books, 2000

Beautiful photos from around the world

+ Global Gardening Inspirations
+ Beautiful, but...?

This wonderful book takes you on a tour of some of the world's most beautiful gardens and shows you how to bring ideas from them home to your own space. It is divided into geographic areas including Italy, Britain, France, Japan and the tropics. In each section the unique style and methods of the ...
  
  











  



  
Garden Design - Sylvia Crowe1 review
Sylvia Crowe

Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C, 2003

THIS ONE IS FOR THE HARD-CORE GARDENER.

This volume was first published in England in 1958 with the American Edition published in 1959. This book is unlike the contemporary garden design books by the same author. First, the book consists primarily of text, well written text, I grant you, but text never-the-less. The pictures are in ...
  
  











  



  
Garden design5 reviews
Robin Williams

Readers Digest, 1995

An Excellent Idea Book On Garden Design

+ Excellent Book on Garden Design
+ One of the most comprehensive garden design books!
+ Great book - love it !!
+ Great design and structural source!
  
  











  



  
The Garden Design Book7 reviews
Staff Gardendesign

Regan Books, 1997

Nicely organized with alot of vaiety and food for thought

+ A coffee table book worth browsing

I liked this book very much. It had gorgeous pictures and an interesting way to look at gardening. It showed me things about my own style of gardening that I was doing but not really aware of what exactly or why exactly I was doing it. It was inspiring and motivating.
  
  











  



  
Herb Garden Design
Faith H. Swanson, Virginia B. Rady

UPNE, 1984

A unique and handsome book for novice and professional gardeners. The plans, with full commentary and plant lists, offer a wide range of designs easily adapted to one's own needs.
  
  











  



  
Patio: Garden Design & Inspiration5 reviews
Jamie Durie

Allen & Unwin, 2006

Must-read for garden design

+ Best Inspiring Book for Outdoor Design
+ This is one of my favorite inspiration books
+ A more elegant modern
  
  











  



  
Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook8 reviews
Jennifer Bartley

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006

Gardener's inspiration

+ book review
+ Beautiful, enlightening AND practical
+ Something I've wanted for a while...
+ Great Gift for Garden Loving Friend!
  
  











  



  
Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting7 reviews
Ray Rogers, Richard W. Hartlage

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007

Gorgeous book and inspired arrangements

+ Great Book for Planning Color Choices In Garden
+ A great reference book for selecting the right plants and right pots for your garden
+ pots in the Garden-a Northern Ireland view
+ Pure inspiration
  
  











  



  
Planting Design Illustrated20 reviews
Gang Chen

Outskirts Press, Inc., 2007

Gang Chen's creates a workbook for garden planning

+ Illuminating and Comforting
+ Great Book for The Novice or Professional
+ Descriptive and Very Informative
+ Fantastic content - stirs the imagination
  
  











  



  
Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior ...3 reviews

Wiley, 1999

Essential Resource for the Healing Garden Designer

+ Aplicaciones para la salud

Beautiful organization, research examples to support common-sense recommendations, case studies with pictures, this superb book is the first stop for the healing garden designer. The case studies and design recommendations are grouped by health care setting, which makes the reading more focused. ...
  
  











  



  
Garden Design Workbook1 review
John Brookes

DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), 1998

Garden Design 101

This is a great intro to garden design drafting. It covers at a high-level how to draw a garden design and some basic principles of structure. If you are wanting to learn how to draw designs for your garden, this is a good place to start. If you have experience in garden design, another book may ...
  
  











  



  
The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces3 reviews
Joseph Cali

Kodansha International, 2004

A wonderful book!

+ A Complete Work of Art
+ A fine addition to your Japanese garden collection

This book is itself a work of art, the best I've ever seen in the field. The photographs convey the quiet, peaceful, beauty of small Zen gardens so well, that it is a joy to look at. Mr. Cali's text clearly introduces and explains both the historical background and the philosophical/aesthetic ...
  
  











  



  
Home Planners Complete Book of Landscape Plans: 50+ Garden Designs to Transform Your Yard3 reviews

Home Planners, 2003

Some good ideas

+ Great book!

While this book does not have comprehensive information on each plan, it still provides some interesting ideas. Additional information such as comprehensive blueprints as well as plant and material lists customized to your region is available for purchase, but I found this useful without having to ...
  
  











  



  
Creating Japanese Gardens3 reviews
Philip Cave, Geoffrey Jellicoe

Tuttle Publishing, 1996

Great book

+ Excellent guide to creating your own Japanese garden
+ the book was enlightening and informative even for beginners

I was curious as to how to go about creating a Japanese garden, and this book not only answered my questions, it gave me inspiration with its pages of gorgeous photographs. A must have for any aspiring Japanese gardener, or just for anyone interested in Japan.
  
  











  



  
New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build (Better Homes and Gardens(R))5 reviews
Better Homes and Gardens

Better Homes and Gardens, 2002

Great guide for new gardeners

+ Beautiful, book of knowledge and ideas!
+ Great book for your bookshelf!
+ REALLY IS COMPLETE!!!
+ greatest landscaping book I've seen so far