Beyond the Garden: Designing Home Landscapes with Natural Systems

Beautiful gardens and applicable sustainable design inspirations for the home gardener and professional landscape designer alike.

This collection focuses on the many elements and actions that can make a garden sustainable. It includes projects at a range of scales in urban, suburban, semi-rural, and rural locales across the United States. A variety of climates and site conditions offer lessons for the experienced professional as well as the home gardener. Among the techniques featured in the book's twenty projects are channeling stormwater in the high desert of New Mexico, planning for resilience in the Florida Keys, selecting water-wise and no-mow ground cover in California, and addressing groundwater recharge in Massachusetts.