The Authentic Garden: Naturalistic and Contemporary Landscape Design

As the movement of meadow, matrix, and graphic planting design has spread outward from Europe and reached the US in such notable incarnations as the High Line and Citygarden in St. Louis, it has rekindled interest in using ecologically sound, perennial, and sustainable plants that require little maintenance–and in letting plants, rather than hardscape elements, lead design. Expert gardener and experienced author and lecturer Richard Hartlage compiles a survey of professionally designed gardens that embrace this movement and expand upon it. Includes many never-before-published examples from well-known landscape designers and firms such as Thomas Woltz, Oehme van Sweden, Steve Martino, Ron Lutsko, Hoerr Schaudt, Christine Ten Eyck, Raymond Jungles, Andrea Cochran, Roy Diblik, Bernard Trainor, and John Fairey.