| 1. |  | Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit
from Timber Press
Price: $23.07
Customer Review:
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. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The death and life of great American cities
from Random House
Customer Review:
I bought this book as a required reading for school. It was very easy to read and covered many interesting topics. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in learning more about the urban environment. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Listening to Stone
from Artisan
Price: $16.29
Customer Review:
Stone is timeless.
Rocks placed by human hands.
Inspiration to make a pile of rocks and stones.
This is a book on making your mark with stone and appreciating how others have done this for ages.
Very inspiring. I paid a visit to my local stone supplier shortly after reading... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
from Wiley
Price: $32.97
Customer Review:
This is a practical straight forward guide to Architecture for the non-architect. Also of use to those interested in building design and architectual history. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles
from Rizzoli
Price: $40.95
Customer Review:
Marie-Antoinette is something of an enigma, some feel she is the misunderstood tragic heroine of the Ancient Regime and some feel she is that Austria wh*re, who may or my not have said, let them eat cake, and spent France into Revolution, I feel she is probably all of this and more. One thing is for... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Manual of Woody Landscape Plants : Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses
from Stipes Publishing
Price: $54.73
Customer Review:
Michael Dirr is the guy you go to to identify and even diagnose woody plants. No color plates but fine line drawings. Anecdotal in nature sometimes, and with sharp delineation of properties of each tree or shrub. He has this book also broken up in two different versions, (plants of the northern and... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
from Taunton
Price: $23.07
Customer Review:
My husband and I purchased this book to get ideas for a new home. We want to "bring the outdoors in," and this book is full of ideas to do just that. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Stonescaping Idea Book (Taunton's Idea Book Series)
from Taunton
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
I loaned this book to my friend [we're both rockaholics]and she's having a hard time giving it back [maybe I should buy one for her]. I have acquired several books on stonescaping, building with rock, etc., this is one of the good ones, wonderful pictures too. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | In the Company of Stone
from Artisan
Price: $15.30
Customer Review:
The beautiful color photographs of the artfully designed and master-crafted stonework are nicely done! It seems apparent to me that the stone mason has a definite love for his chosen profession and for any project precisely crafted. This book is not a "how-to-do-stonework-101." It is the meshing... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start
from Rodale Books
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
If you've ever drooled over perfectly arranged landscapes designed with fabulous color combinations, texture, and an array of plants all sizes and shapes who's colors are pleasing to the eye, this book is your tool. There are many garden companies that offer pre-designed gardens, but they're... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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