Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East

Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East book cover

Carolyn Summers. Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Topic(s): Designing Native Landscapes, Recommendations: Landscape Practices

A useful resource if you are designing native plant gardens, with good discussions about defining “native,” understanding horticultural cultivars and hybrids, and finding native alternatives to common non-native species. The suggestions about how to incorporate natives into traditional, formal landscapes are particularly helpful.