The Authentic Garden // by Richard Hartlage
& Sandy Fischer

In contemporary American garden design, plants are making a comeback. As movements of architectural, naturalistic, meadow, matrix, graphic & ecological planting design have been adopted by the High Line in New York and Citygarden in St. Louis, they have rekindled interest in using plants that suit a given site's ecology - and letting plants, rather than hardscape elements, lead design. The sixty gardens featured in this book are all united by an immediately perceptible, intelligent selection of plants that create an enthralling, memorable, and fitting sense of place: this is what makes a garden truly authentic.

Featuring the Works of :

ALLWORTH DESIGN // ANDREA COCHRAN // JACK DELASHMET // DOYLE HERMAN // GUSTAFSON GUTHRIE NICHOL // HOERR SCHAUDT // RON LUTSKO // STEVE MARTINO // NELSON BYRD WOLTZ // NIEVERA WILLIAMS // OEHME VAN SWEDEN // OLIN // RAYMOND JUNGLES // CHRISTINE TEN EYCK // BERNARD TRAINOR // MICHAEL VERGASON

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Bold Visions for the Garden: Basics, Magic & Inspiration

by Richard Hartlage

"As one of the most assured garden designers on the contemporary scene, Hartlage follows in the tradition of influential figures in the "Hort" world who have penned their guiding principles. Like Gertrude Jekyll and Thomas Church before him, Hartlage contributes to an ongoing dialogue among garden makers. Entrusting a vision where artistry together with a sense of adventure result in uniquely personal garden spaces. Hartlage assumes the role of guide to budding green thumbs and mentor to ambitious horticulturists who could benefit from a jump start. A range of possibilities must be reckoned with before setting out to create a garden. But boundless prospects can be overwhelming, so Hartlage breaks it down. How is the garden to be used? Moreover, what myriad ways can setting and architecture, scale and plantings, color, light, and special features contributed to the achievement of an individualized sanctuary? To his credit, Hartlage sets forth a refreshingly catholic stance rather than mandating a specific style. An invigorating effort, brimming with the author's striking photographs."

- Alice Joyce, American Library Assocation

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Coleus: Rainbow Foliage for Containers & Gardens

Photography by Richard Hartlage, text by Ray Rogers

"Coleus are no longer your grandmother's parlor plants. Favorites during the Victorian era, these plants have made a dramatic comeback with a dazzling variety of leaf color, shape, and pattern. No other plant is so easy to grow and propagate. Their sumptuous colors and tough constitution make coleus ideal both as attention-getting focal points and as complements to other foliage or flowering plants. In this lavishly illustrated volume, with photography by Richard Hartlage, expert plantsman Ray Rogers offers equal parts of design inspiration and practical advice. The heart of this book is an encyclopedia that describes and evaluates more than 225 varieties."

- Amazon

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Pots in the Garden: Expert Design &
Planting TechniquesPhotography by Richard Hartlage, text by Ray Rogers

No longer a technique just for apartment dwellers or novice gardeners, the use of ornamental containers on decks, patios, terraces, and in the garden itself can save time, space, and money, while offering experienced home gardeners unique creative challenges, site flexibility, and experimental fun. Author and award-winning horticulturist Ray Rogers takes you on an engaging exploration into basic design principles as well as how to create focal points, use water, exploit the potential of empty containers, and more. Stunning photographs by Richard Hartlage provide guidance and inspiration, as well as visually explaining each principle. Gardeners at every level of experience will find inspiration and instruction in this comprehensive book.

- Amazon

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Plant Life: Growing a Garden in the Pacific Northwest

Photography by Richard Hartlage, text by Valerie Easton

You won't find potted petunias or rigid rows of hot-pink impatiens in this gorgeous new book. Instead, Plant Life features 80 luscious photographs by Richard Hartlage of Valerie Easton's own garden. Drawn from her popular column of the same name in the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine, Plant Life invites the world into Easton's garden, offering readers a personal perspective from a master gardener. Organized around the twelve months, Plant Life covers a wide array of topics including climbing plants, leaves that aren't green, containers, garden paths, pests, and much more. Each chapter contains several essays -- some instructive, others philosophical -- relevant to the time of year, and features a "Now in Bloom" section focusing on plants at their prime and illustrated with full-color photographs.

- Amazon

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A Pattern Garden: The Essential Elements of Garden Making

Photography by Richard Hartlage, text by Valerie Easton

A Pattern Garden gives us the tools for creating our own highly satisfying garden spaces. Author, Valerie Easton, identifies 14 garden patterns that she sees as fundamental to successful design and that will turn any landscape into a memorable and rewarding retreat. This book will help you identify what pleases you, and why, and provide inspiration and direction in the planting and layout of your own garden. Discussions of essential patterns, such as the creation of paths or the incorporation of water into the garden, are complemented by concrete advice about plant selection and lush photography by Richard Hartlage.

- Amazon

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Birds, Bees, Flowers & Trees Pots // Seibert & Rice

Richard Hartlage brought together all of his passions in this series for The American Collection from Seibert and Rice. As a lover of joyful design, Hartlage incorporated the beautiful things that inspired him in the garden. Traditional lines give the containers strong, functional forms. The Birds, Bees, Flowers and Trees create a modern and playful motif. Cheerfully warbling barn swallows swoop around the Bird Pot, and a stately California quail perches on the wood grain patterned rim. Honeybees buzz around the Bee Pot grounded by honeycomb. Trilliums delicately encircle the Hanging Flower Pot. The Tree Pot is ringed by a chain of native dogwood flowers and white oak acorns line the base where a sweet songbird, the titmouse, rests.

- Seibert and Rice

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