title: Exploring Garden Style: Creative Ideas from America's Best Gardeners (Fine Gardening Design Guides)
author: Editors and Contributors of Fine Gardening
description: The contributors to <i>Exploring Garden Style</i> discuss how establishing a theme can open the way to developing a successful garden design. This handbook includes site plans and celebrates an array of traditional and naturalistic garden designs. Specialized styles such as water, knot, and tropical gardens are featured in the book's final section. Overflowing with useful information, the content spans the making of garden rooms, enriching the soil, eliminating lawns, and landscaping with native plants. Alpines, edibles, ornamental herbs, sumptuous roses, and prairie plants, in turn, inspire horticultural bliss for a bevy of garden writers who eloquently share their know-how. <i>Alice Joyce</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  editor’s letter
  CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
  FERGUS GARRETT
  Plantsman and head 
  gardener at Great  
  Dixter in East Sussex.
  CAROL KLEIN
  Plantswoman and 
  presenter of BBC 
  Gardeners’ World.
  DAN PEARSON
  Garden designer, 
  plantsman and  
  columnist. 
  DANIEL J HINKLEY
  American plantsman,  
  planthunter, horticultural 
  writer and lecturer.
  ALYS FOWLER
  Kew-trained gardener,  
  author and television 
  presenter. 
  CLAIRE TAKACS. JASO