The Nonstop Color Garden: Design Flowering Landscapes and Gardens for Year-Round Enjoyment

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Ask any gardener and they will tell you, color is the most important (and most fun!) part of garden design. In The Nonstop Color Garden, author Nellie Neal shows how to use color as an exciting element in your garden during all four seasons--and it's not just flowers! Year-round color is possible by including trees, shrubs, and ground-covers that produce colorful berries and bark, as well as flowers during spring and summer. Even the shapes of plants can enhance your garden by providing all-season architectural interest--Nellie makes it easy to explore it all.The Nonstop Color Garden is perfect for the more experienced gardener, but even an engaged novice will find much to learn about the best plants for nonstop color, garden structure, and garden design. Nellie presents several strategies for crafting a thematically cohesive yet unstylized landscape that includes plant selection and placement. Use the balanced juxtaposition of opposites in texture, size, shape and color. Create unifying pairings of similar foliage types. Work with existing land forms and indigenous vegetation. Everyone who takes pride and pleasure in their garden will not want to miss this informative, fun, colorful book!

Landscapes of Change: Innovative Designs for Reinvented Sites

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Climate change, natural resource use, population shifts, and many other factors have all changed the demands we place on landscape designs. Projects now have to help connect neighborhoods, absorb stormwater, cool urban centers, and provide wildlife habitats.Landscapes of Change examines how these challenges drive the design process, inspire new design strategies, and result in innovative works that are redefining the field of landscape architecture. In twenty-five case studies from around the world, Roxi Thoren explores how the site can serve as the design generator, describing each project through the physical, material, ecological, and cultural processes that have shaped the site historically and continue to shape these ground-breaking projects.

Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location

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Including more than 2,000 recommendations from gardening experts, "Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location" includes planting suggestions for over 30 types of sites, from notoriously dry ground by a hedge or fence to cracks in walls or paving, explains how to assess site and soil, and presents a stunning range of plant partners and planting schemes.
Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution, whose Smithsonian's Gardens creates and manages the Smithsonian's outdoor gardens, interiorscapes, and horticulture-related collections and exhibits, "Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location" is the perfect book for gardeners looking to make the most out of their plot.

Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired by Literature

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For those who have ever lost themselves in the stylish worlds of novels like Sense and Sensibility, The Age of Innocence, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and countless others, this design book embraces the fantasy of time and place, showing you how to bring some of those elements into your own home.

Decorating for Real Life: The Shabby Nest's Guide to Beautiful, Family-Friendly Spaces

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Don't spend a fortune on home furnishings. Popular home-style blogger, Wendy Hyde shows you how to combine store-bought pieces with DIY projects and a healthy dose of whimsy to create budget-friendly spaces that show off your style and personality.

Modern Country: Inspiring Interiors for Contemporary Country Living

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'Modern Country' explores some of the most exciting and interesting examples of the contemporary in French interior design, exploring homes in the mountains, by the sea, and in deepest parts of the countryside.

Sarah Style

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HGTV star Richardson shows a broad range in this idea book for the armchair designer. The portfolio of style options includes a New York co-op, a millennial's take on metrosexual, and an Arts and Crafts redux. For each major category of room in a house entry, living room, dining room, family room, bedroom, kitchen, kids' bedroom, bathroom, and office Richardson picks a handful of varied dwellings to feature. Several pages and a dozen or so photographs are devoted to each example, and each photo is accompanied by an extended caption. The crowded but organized photographic spreads eschew any scrapbook frou-frou, getting right to the point while also being chock-full of ideas. Richardson recommends "Get Over the Glider" and adeptly places a stylish high-backed orange upholstered office rocker in a gray, black, white, and blue nursery. Room layout is another one of Richardson's strengths. She writes: "the long, narrow proportions of a Victorian town house are often best addressed with two distinct seating groupings." Fortunately, the selected photographs capture just the right views to prove her thesis. While the caption's headlines can border on ingratiating (for example, "Get Leggy" and "Give It the Slip") the concepts are all there, on beautiful full-color display. "(Nov.)" Copyright 2014 Publishers Weekly