Professional Planting Design: An Architectural and Horticultural Approach for Creating Mixed Bed PlantingsISBN: 978-0-471-76139-6
Paperback
304 pages
March 2007
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"The great mysteries of successful planting design are unraveled by
landscape architect Scott Scarfone in Professional Planting Design.
Scarfone sets out the guidelines to allow anyone from an avid
amateur gardener to a professional landscape designer or architect
to create a living work of art with plants." (The American
Gardner, May/June 2008)
"Using mainly black and white drawings and photographs to illustrate principles, he prods the reader to think first of architectural concepts, forms and textures before considering color compositions. High marks go to the author for his presentation on the application of theory." (Chicago Botanic Garden Current Books and Book Reviews Web page; summer 2007)
"It is a ‘go-to’ reference for a variety of design topics from useful definitions of design fundamentals to more complex considerations of massing plants, structuring space, and deconstructing design compositions to understand how they function." (Landscape Architecture: The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects, February 2008, Vol. 98, No. 2)