Here are my top selections for Christmas gifts, in no particular order: just books I'd be happy to have under the tree in my house.
Flora Illustrata - Yale University Press
Highlights from the New York Botanical Garden's collection of manuscripts, texts, illustrations, seed catalogues, documents -- everything horticulture, garden design, exploration, you name it. A most impressive book.
Full review is here.
Landscaping Ideas That Work - Taunton Press
Almost everything you need to know about how to design a garden from designer Julie Moir Messervy. One of her best.
Full review is here.
The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden - Timber Press
From plantsman and designer Roy Diblik, plans and plants that will work anywhere - sustainably.
Full review is here.
Gardens in Detail: 100 Contemporary Designs - Monacelli Press
This is a reference book you'll turn to again and again and again -- all the elements that ever make a garden come together -- explained in easy terms by British author & designer Emma Reuss.
Full review is here.
Sissinghurst - St. Martin's Press
Every designer, every serious gardener, probably needs to have a book on Sissinghurst - gardens designed by Vita Sackville West & Harold Nicolson. Author Sarah Raven is married to the couple's grandson, her family has lived there -- and this is the book on the garden that you want - a thoroughly delightful read.
Full review is here.
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