Trees, Shrubs & Hedges for Your Home: Secrets for Selection and Care

Landscape professionals regard trees, shrubs, and hedges as the “bones,” or essential framework, of any landscape design. The trick is to select the best plants for your growing conditions – plants that also look good together. Full-color throughout, this complrehensive guide shows the reader how to do that and more, while also providing descriptions of over 1,000 of the best plants – “best” because they’re beautiful, low-maintenance, pest- and disease-resistant, and available at local nurseries and home centers.


Trees, Shrubs & Hedges for Your Home: Secrets for Selection and Care

Living Monet: The Artist’s Gardens

Living Monet The gardens from Argenteuil to Giverny Doris Kutschbach

This multi-faceted tour through the gardens of Claude Monet and his home at Giverny offers a stunning portrait of a great artist’s world.

The radiant colors and brilliant composition of Monet’s floral paintings have inspired artists, gardeners, designers as well as life-style gurus. This delightful gift book features dazzling reproductions of Monet’s paintings and it expands on the experience of Giverny with photographs of the gardens from the artist’s time and today, insights into the artist’s domestic world, examples of his horticultural genius and even recipes from his kitchen. Readers will learn what daily life was like in the artist’s home and find inspiration on how to create their own beautiful gardens. The book also includes reproductions from famous American Impressionists in the collection of the Musée d’art américain, a living tribute to Monet.

Doris Kutschbach is the editor and author of many books on art. A passionate amateur gardener, she lives with her husband and two children in Munich, Germany.


Living Monet: The Artist’s Gardens

The Meaning of Gardens

Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature, yet in the vast library of garden literature few books focus on what the garden means – on the ecology of garden as idea, place, and action. The Meaning of Gardens maps out how the garden is perceived, designed, used, and valued. Essays from a variety of disciplines are organized around six metaphors special to our time – the garden muses of Faith, Power, Ordering, Cultural Expression, Personal Expression, and Healing. Each muse suggests specific inspirations for garden and landscape design.


The Meaning of Gardens