Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit | 
 enlarge | Authors: Scott Ogden, Lauren Springer Ogden
Publisher: Timber Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 7063
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 284
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 9.4 x 1
ISBN: 0881928771
Dewey Decimal Number: 712
EAN: 9780881928778
ASIN: 0881928771
Publication Date: October 14, 2008
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Product Description
This book is nothing short of revolutionary. 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 the respect they deserve does a garden become emotionally resonant. Plant-Driven Design shows designers how to work more confidently with plants, and gives gardeners more confidence to design. The Ogdens boldly challenge design orthodoxy and current trends by examining how to marry plantsmanship and design without sacrificing one to the other. Supported by extensive lists of plants adapted to specific purposes and sites, Plant-Driven Design explores how plants interact with place. In addition, the authors' experience gardening and designing in a wide variety of climates gives their perspective a unique depth. In ideas, scope, and detail, this book both embraces and transcends regionality. By reclaiming gardens as a home to plants, this groundbreaking work will restore life-affirming vitality to garden design and profoundly affect how we understand and experience gardens.
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This it THE design book to own! December 21, 2008
This is THE design book to currently own. It has wonderful pictures of real gardens. It is a wonderful book and well worth having in your personal library.
More from the Queen of Western gardening! December 21, 2008
Wow. I got this book a week ago and have been reading every night. It is going to take me a while to read it, let alone digest it!
Honestly, I think the premise of the book is a little contrived. Whether you first have a site and want a plant that conveys a certain atmosphere, or whether you first have a plant and then find the right spot for it - it doesn't make a difference. For both approaches, you have to know a lot about plants, their provenance, and their culture to have a stunning result. But, if Lauren Springer Ogden and Scott Ogden needed a catchy phrase to build their new book around, so be it.
I hadn't read Scott Ogden's other books, but I will definitely read his other titles now.
The book is full of fantastic plant lists, outstanding photographs, and and and. I wonder whether steppe gardens are going to become all the rage now? I hope not. I hope what all gardeners will take home from reading this book is to follow their own design instincts and build the garden of their dreams.
Sumptuous book breaks new ground in garden design December 9, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not just Another Pretty Garden Book, although it is chockablock full of stunning images. Unlike cookie cutter coffee table books with the same plants and same rehashed notions, the Ogdens have filled the text with clear, compelling exposition that really elucidates the ways in to take advantage of the inherent ecological needs of plants to achieve stunning aesthetic ends. This book is utterly new and novel. Everyone talks about design, but the Ogdens deliver the goods: their stellar photography captures the most beautiful North American gardens and crystallizes their salient aspects (microclimate, hardscape, texture and light) showing you how you can recreate many of these artistic habitats in an urban or suburban setting. They have distilled two lifetimes of cutting edge gardening into their copious plant lists and designs--the best new plants used in fresh ways. These speak to all parts of our continent. I am especially excited by the sections on transforming dull lawn space into multidimensional, self sustaining meadows filled with year around color, attracting wildlife and safe for humans! Encyclopaedic in scope, intimate in feel, this is a handbook for creating sustainable, gorgeous, truly American gardens. Every serious gardener, designer or landscape architect in America should own and cherish this book.
Connecting plants and people through art, science and philosphy December 4, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Gardening books tend to be easily classified - detailed reference books, encyclopedic treatises on individual plants, design how-to, or regionally-specific. Plant Driven Design transcends time, geographic boundaries and spirit. It is a book that evokes thoughtful consideration and compassion for our own backyards and a greater connection with the world at the same time.
Readers will not want to sit and read this all at one time - it's a book to return to again and again. The abundance of beautiful photographs and detailed, honest prose provide repose for stressed minds, offer inspiration for new garden concepts, encourage exploration of the natural world, and grant freedom to experience plants as the basis for all garden processes.
On the other hand, Plant Driven Design offers some of the most diverse and creative plant lists ever incorporated into a single gardening book, with hundreds of suggestions of a vast array of species and cultivars for a myriad of sites and conditions. I was especially intrigued with lists of Junipers to Love, Bulbs for Steppe Plantings, Designing with Light, and Matching Climates and Plants.
Gardeners of all flavors will appreciate the depth and breadth that these intelligent and creative gardeners bring forth - science, art, philosophy, travel, romance and nature woven purposefully throughout the pages. This is a book that will change the way you experience gardens forever.
Favorite quote:
In the chapter, Putting Plants First: "The earthly Edens we create are indeed poetic realms in which we are able to forget our modern-day divorce from the natural world. This renewal of our relationship with nature is the very essence of garden experience."
Plant-driven Gardening December 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book should be required reading for Landscape Architects and anyone else who wants to create beautiful gardens...As usual these two very knowledgeable plants-people have called our attention to putting the right plants in the right places so that one enhances the other. This will certainly become one of the great garden books of this century. With a list of features and plant lists right next to the contents they have made it easy to find specific types of plants...plants with big leaves, columner plants, hardy cycads and much more. Lauren's photos(mostly)and Scot's (occassionaly) light up the book perfectly. Give yourself and your favorite gardeners this book.
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