Julie Moir Messervy has written a classic garden book. Deeply literate and beautifully written, The Inward Garden gives the reader a process for designing one’s dream garden. Based on garden archtypes: the sea, the cave, the harbor, the promitory, the island, the mountain, and the sky, this book provides a structure for imagining and designing the garden of one’s desires. It is illustrated with outstanding garden photographs by the celebrated national geographic photographer Sam Abell.
The Home Landscaper: 55 Professional Landscapes You Can Do
-The first and still the best in Do-it-yourself landscape projects.
-Beautiful full-color renderings of all landscape plans.
-Notes and illustrations on design and installation.
-Complete construction blueprints and regional plant list available.
Apremont (Small Books of Great Gardens)
The Floral Park of Apremont, in the heart of France, was opened to the public in 1977. It is a fairy-tale setting in which a towered castle rises over a flower-frilled medieval village on the bank of the Allier River. Its owner, the celebrated landscape architect Gilles de Brissac, has knit villages and castle park together with theme gardens, mixed borders, flowering shrubs and trees, cascades, a succession of lakes, and a series of architectural follies. This manual explores the Gardens through photographs and text, and includes garden maps, plant lists and practical information on visiting times and best seasons.
