Breaking Ground - Gardening Book

By Page Dickey, Erica Lennard
Softcover, 10-1/4 x 7-5/8, 208 pages, with color photos and drawings

ISBN 1-56158-556-4

Now, for the first time in paperback, award-winning garden writer Page Dickey and acclaimed photographer Erica Lennard take an in-depth look at the work of ten master garden designers living and working in America and Europe today.

Filled with glorious full-color photographs, sketches, and garden plans, BREAKING GROUND provides innovative design solutions for a range of gardens to help inspire adaptions for the home gardener. From the bold Southern California designs of Nancy Power to the urban geometries of Madison Cox to the updated French formal style of Louis Benech to the romantic country gardens of Nancy McCabe, Breaking Ground profiles the artists who are redefining garden design categories.

About the Author
Page Dickey is a garden writer, lecturer, and designer. A book about her own garden--Duck Hill Journal: A Year in a Country Garden--was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1991. She has written on garden design for House & Garden, House Beautiful, and Elle Decor. She lectures regularly on garden design and teaches classes at the New York Botanical Garden and the Horticultural Society of New York. Her garden was featured in HG in 1993.