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Title: Good and bad water gardens
Review: As with most books published by Timber Press the overall content and layout are above average. I like the way photos are in sync with the text, and the reader carried through the design process in an economical discussion of salient points. The major downfall in the book, and it is major, appears in the authors credits for the landscape designs highlighted for discussion. In every instance the authors own designs are found in the category of the right way to design, as might be expected. But in a petty or mindlessly inadventurous way, he sees fit to credit all the examples he uses as bad design, not his, with the actual designers name. No matter how good a book, I would not purchase a work that degrades another's reputation.
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