Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit

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.

• Waterwise Plants for Sustainable Gardens: 200 Drought-Tolerant Choices for all Climates
• Pretty Tough Plants: 135 Resilient, Water-Smart Choices for a Beautiful Garden
• The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty
• Passionate Gardening: Good Advice for Challenging Climates
• The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resilient Beauty
• Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design
• Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes
• Planting: A New Perspective
• Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces
• Sowing Beauty: Designing Flowering Meadows from Seed