El. knyga: New Garden Design

Gardeners and landscapers in search of inspiration will find it in this beautiful photographic study. Sadar, the design editor for the San Francisco Chronicle provides the text and Brenner the photographs. The book begins with the enclosure itself, the garden wall. It is then divided into water features, desert gardens, garden architecture, vegetable gardens, medicinal gardens and blending plants and art. Oversize: 9.5x12.5" Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bernard Maybeck is accented with a freehand composition of urns, cement pipes and rusty objects, as well as over a thousand species of plants. A grove of olive trees underplanted with rosemary and lavender fields gives personality to two acres surrounding a house designed by modernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.