Landscaping With Nature: Using Nature's Designs to Plan Your Yard

by Jeff Cox

A garden transformation workbook, this text teaches readers a new way to garden--by working with nature to design a landscape. Detailed instructions for using nature's patterns or color schemes in a garden design, gardening for wildlife, landscaping with stones and/or water, and using native plants are combined with basic instruction. 80 color photos. 75 illustrations.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Plants, Nature

344 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

Reviews

[Lily C · Rating 3 out of 5]

The copy of this I read was published in 1991, it showed its age in the use of sketches to illustrate points and the choice of plants for instance the Giant Hogweed for a pool setting - this plant is now considered a bio-hazard that must be dealt with with extreme caution. I like the photo section in the middle showing nature then the garden scenes inspired by it. The idea of looking and analyzing a scene in the "wild" and translating into a garden setting without recreating it, capturing a mood appealed. Again a book set more in the USA climates than Canada. So some of the practical aspects of creating these scenes were not completely relevant.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once more Cox has written a good book that ranges from the specific to the general concept of garden design.

[Rose]

712.6 Cox

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very "text book" like style.