A Pattern Garden

The Essential Elements of Garden Making
by Valerie Easton

A Pattern Garden provides the tools for creating your own highly satisfying garden spaces. Valerie Easton, a notable Seattle gardener and garden writer, identifies 14 garden patterns that she sees as fundamental to successful design, among them the courtyard, the winding path, and the vista. These patterns turn a garden into a memorable and rewarding retreat.

Easton’s 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.

"A Pattern Garden reveals the hidden relationships between scale and structure that define truly great gardens.... Easton will open your eyes to a new way of seeing the design opportunities inherent in any garden site." —Scot Medbury, CEO, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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