Book description
For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants play subordinate roles.
With passion and eloquence, Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden argue that only when plants are given the respect they deserve does a garden become…
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1 author picked Plant-Driven Design as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is perhaps the most important garden book of the last twenty years and one of my favorites.
The main premise is that plants matter and that the key to successful gardening and garden design is to know your plants and I could not agree more! I love the gorgeous photography and all the information by two of America's greatest horticulturalists.
From John's list on creating successful meadow and grass garden ecology.
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