What designer is not a fan of Steve Martino? And this book tells you everything you want to know about the ways to achieve harmony between residence and garden and the landscape beyond. In Desert Gardens of Steve Martino
(Monacelli Press, 2018), author Caren Yglesias and photographer Steve Gunther outline Martino's signature designs with brief garden descriptions and beautiful images that show detail after detail, from the vividly colored stucco walls that frame distant views to native plants and elements like an illuminated yellow fiberglass roof, a fence made from rebar, and stunning water features and pools. ... Fabulous present for any designer or dedicated gardener you know.
I bet you've never seen the Westside Community Garden, NYC's smallest public garden on 56th St. betweeen 9th & 10th, or the rooftop farm at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
New York is awash in gardens, and while this lovely book, City Green: Public Gardens of New York
(Monacelli Press, 2018) by Jane Garmey, includes some well-known gardens like the High Line and Wave Hill, there are many others you'll want to visit. If... and some you've never heard of before. If you frequently or just occasionally go to NYC, you'll definitely want to have a copy of this book.
You may think you can't grow palms, but yes, there are some that survive winter temperatures down to zero degrees centigrade, more that survive down to 10 or 15 degrees, and well, the planet is warming.
So take a good look at Designing with Palms
(Timber Press, 2018) by Jason Dewees, palm expert, designer, and horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco. You won't find a better book on the subject.
You'll be ready to travel when you pick up Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens
(Timber Press, 2018) by British plant expert Christopher Woods, former director and chief designer at Chanticleer Garden in Pennsylvania. You'll know some of these gardens, but there are many fairly new ones that will definitely catch your designer's eye.
I love the way this book is organized: a theme tour of important and iconic gardens throughout the world. In The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens
, (Timber Press, 2018) author Linda Chisholm, who teaches the history of landscape design at the NY Botanical Garden, takes the reader on a tour of gardens from medieval gardens in Europe to the modern gardens of today that emphasize sustainability and native plants. A great book for anyone studying landscape design.
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