The book describes new thinking about landscape, and applies new techniques to the task of transforming outdated and disused post-extraction landscapes through design.
Designing the reclaimed landscape
This title addresses new thinking about landscape, which applies new techniques to the task of transforming outdated and disused post-extraction landscapes through design.
Plant-Driven Design shows designers how to work more confidently with plants, and gives gardeners more confidence to design.
For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants play subordinate roles. With passion and eloquence, Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden argue that only when plants are given…
Plant-Driven Design shows designers how to work more confidently with plants, and gives gardeners more confidence to design.
"Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, and pa…
"Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife habitat, and pa…