Product Description: In Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden, the acclaimed author and garden designer Page Dickey writes of the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and myriad pleasures of the twenty-nine year process of creating her own remarkable garden, Duck Hill, in upstate New York...read more

An insider's tour of eighteen special gardens from across the United States pays tribute to the special delights of regional gardening in which the landscape design has taken into consideration the special characteristics, plants, and climate of its locale, ranging from a woodland garden in Maine, to a Wisconsin farmland garden, to a garden planted in gravel in Palo Alto, California.

Product Description: Not since Martha Schinz's masterful Visions of Paradise, published in 1984, has there been such an important survey of garden design and style as Breaking Ground. Whereas Visions of Paradise featured classic European garden design, Breaking Ground takes an in-depth look at the work of ten contemporary garden designers living and working in America and Europe today...read more

Product Description: Page Dickey takes us on an insider's tour of twenty of the most charming gardens in America and Europe with the ideal garden companion - cats. Author Roxana Robinson's Victorian garden in upstate New York, Martha Stewart's cottage garden of perennials in Westport, Connecticut, plus noted garden authority Penelope Hobhouse's private garden retreat in the English countryside, and other well-known gardens are explored not only as fine examples of garden design, but as sanctuaries of the cats who call them home (see attachment)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Dogs are the soft underbelly of every gardener," says English landscape designer Tim Reese. In fact, gardeners are often as crazy about their dogs as they are about their flowers, and would not dream of tending their beds or inspecting their acreage without the companionship of at least one four-legged friend...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explaining how to integrate a garden landscape with the home, this richly illustrated study highlights thirteen remarkable gardens, representing different climates and styles across America, that have become intimate extensions of the houses they surround and features 150 full-color photographs that capture the garden structures, paths, borders, hedges, terraces, and other elements that join the indoors and outdoors. Doubleday Select Main.

An intimate and poetic record of a year in the life of a garden offers essays on the creation of the various sections of the garden, the plants that make up the landscape, and the design and cultivation of the area. 10,000 first printing.