NIGEL DUNNETT ON PLANTING: How to Design High-Impact, Low-Input Gardens

This is a beautifully written piece of lifestyle visionary.

Very useful, plenty of important information, good design principles. A table of flowering succession time would have complemented happily.

Excelente libro! Si eres paisajista, arquitecto o simplemente te gusta la jardinería debes tener este libro en tu biblioteca personal :) La mejor calidad y contenido.

Really enjoyed this lovely book. I am extremely happy to read how Nigel Dunnett views nature, composition, urban planting, and relieved that he does not sacrifice color to form as often seems to happen in contemporary natural gardens. This is a beautifully written book, walking a line of prose so nicely spoken that in places it feels like poetry. But it is quite practical and not afraid to get down into details with boots on the ground examples. The stages of nature nature system that borrows Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and modifies it to suggest a model for planting design is so naturally sensible. Dunnett offers a venn diagram for contemporary naturalism: impressionistic, technocratic, and modernistic with a center sweet spot, this begins a solid essay on the directions of recent garden design growing out of several contemporary directions, and concludes with "The Way Forward" which pivots into an important, sometimes missing component in naturalistic planting "Reading Nature." Lots to see and learn here, even more to think on.

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