Plants in Design
A Guide to Designing with Southern Landscape Plants
Title Details
Pages: 592
Illustrations: 1760 color images
Trim size: 9.000in x 11.000in
Formats
Hardcover
Pub Date: 07/01/2021
ISBN: 9-780-8203-4173-6
List Price: $62.95
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Published with the generous support of Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
Plants in Design
A Guide to Designing with Southern Landscape Plants
A handy reference guide for creating hardy and beautiful southern landscapes
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Plants in Design emerged from Brad E. Davis’s and David Nichols’s love for plants and well-designed landscapes and a previous frustration with landscape design guidebooks. While most landscape and garden design resources focus either on design principles or on plant materials, the unique strategy of Plants in Design provides a palette of options organized by mature size and scale, covering many genres of plants from grasses to herbaceous perennials, woody shrubs and trees, and even annuals and interior plants—all of which are necessary for consideration when composing a well-designed landscape.
Plants in Design combines two fundamental components of landscape and garden design: (1) principles and uses of plant material (e.g., color, line, texture), and (2) resource information for analyzing and selecting a broad range of plant materials, from annuals and ground covers to shrubs and trees, for southern landscapes (USDA hardiness zones 6 to 9). Introductory chapters discuss plants and their uses in creating outdoor landscapes in settings ranging from small-scale applications (e.g., courtyards, walkways) to medium- and large-scale projects (e.g., streetscapes, parks).
Richly illustrated with approximately 1,750 color photographs, Plants in Design depicts plant shape, form, characteristics, and landscape use, both to aid identification and to envision how individual plants might appear in a composition. The authors promote the use of native species to benefit native wildlife and point out the dangers of many nonnative plants widely used in the past and now threatening natural ecosystems. Featuring five hundred southern landscape plants organized into fifteen categories, ranging from large trees to ferns and flowering annuals, plant accounts include scientific and common names, hardiness zones, flowers and fruit, growing conditions, and pests and diseases. The guide also includes drawings, a hardiness zone map, glossary, bibliography, index, and design-use tables for quick reference.
—Matthew R. Chappell, director of Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Suffolk, Virginia
—Jack Ahern, professor emeritus of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Winner
Excellence in Page Design, Southeastern Library Association
Winner
Communications Merit Award, Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects