Planting the landscape

the long version

From idea through implementation, Planting the Landscape shows you how to read the landscape. Planting design poses exciting but complex challenges for the landscape architect, demanding creativity, practical know-how, and the ability to integrate the natural with the planned-all through the living medium of plants that grow and change over time. This is a guide to both the art and the science of planting design-with step-by-step coverage of every stage of the design process, from initial idea through implementation. Combining history, design principles, and horticultural practice in a single volume, it provides the reader with a solid grasp of the history and evolution of specific design forms; environmental considerations and plant affinities; design concepts, principles, and analysis; how to create a design vocabulary and develop a plant palette; how to compose a planting design and the essentials of planting and maintenance. Planting the Landscape is an excellent design companion for landscape architecture professionals and students.