? Lifelong Landscape Design by Mary Palmer Dargan (Gibbs Smith Publishers, 207 pages) $35
A garden can be a reflection of the health and well-being of the people who nurture it.
Author Mary Palmer Dargan views garden design as an ongoing exploration and the opportunity to create a harmonious outdoor space that can reduce stress and uplift the body and soul.
Following the principles she lays out for a lifelong approach to landscape design, Dargan structures the chapters based upon her nine essential components of healthy living. She titles the chapters: The Web of Life, Social Places, Be Active, Passive Places, Freedom of Access Choice, Activate Your Senses to Reduce Stress, Gardening is Therapy, The Healthy House Living Communities, and The Master Plan. Within each chapter she offers suggestions for how to achieve that component, such as creating depressions in the earth to plant a rain garden for a more sustainable approach.
Beautiful colour photographs appear throughout the book showing stunning examples from Dargan’s own garden and projects she has worked on.
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