THE MODERN PROFESSIONAL PLANTING DESIGNER

FISHER TOMLIN A.

ISBN 10: 0847846776 / ISBN 13: 9780847846771

Published by RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL, 2025

About this Item

Today s garden?designers and avid home gardeners have new concerns about ensuring their gardens are above all resilient: They must reduce urban temperatures, protect and improve wildlife habitat, and be able to thrive without traditional chemical maintenance. This volume shows us how to do all that and more step by step, covering every aspect of designing a garden, including finding relevant local environmental data, defining the actual planting challenge, telling a narrative with plants, sketching plans, designing planting compositions full of structure and texture, generating plant palettes and seasonal color schemes, and evaluating sustainability. International case studies of the best new gardens by today s top designers highlight each of these topics and delve further into the design process. Illustrated with hundreds of full-color photos, Fisher Tomlin guides readers on how to create gardens that are truly appropriate for the needs of specific landscapes and therefore likely to succeed, as well as lovely. This book is intended for professionals and students in landscape design programs, and will also appeal to a crossover lay audience of avid home gardeners. Pagg. 240, rilegato.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE MODERN PROFESSIONAL PLANTING DESIGNER
• Publisher: RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847846776
• ISBN 13: 9780847846771
• Binding: LEGATURA EDITORIALE
• Condition: NUOVO

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Synopsis

Planted landscapes are critical to mediating climate change extremes and pollution, as well as to supporting biodiversity in our cities and neighborhoods. This is the first book to reveal how to achieve professional-level design while blending sustainability and beauty in gardens of every scale.

In a time of renewed interest in the role of plants in our lives, garden designers are increasingly turning to modern planting design techniques to introduce biodiversity and resiliency into our landscapes and to enhance human well-being by creating spaces that emphasise connection, innovation, and complexity.

This is the first book to give context to the main techniques used in contemporary garden design today, and reveals how to achieve professional-level solutions in gardens of large and small by exploring and explaining a variety of tips and tools and providing a guiding framework to support the development of any style garden in a step-by-step format. Hundreds of images and case studies by some of today’s best international planting designers bring the opportunities to life on the page.

Fisher Tomlin, an award-winning planting designer and educator, created this book as an ideal accompaniment to academic courses in garden design and landscape architecture and as a key reference for horticulturists and plant enthusiasts of every level.

About the Author

Andrew Fisher Tomlin is the director and cofounder of London College of Garden Design as well as the founding director of celebrated design firm Fisher Tomlin & Bowyer, a preeminent design firm with over thirty years’ experience and dozens of awards, including the prestigious RHS Elizabeth Medal of Honour. He is a former chair and fellow of the Society of Garden Designers as well as a judge and contributor to a number of international shows, design curator of festivals in Sydney and Istanbul, and trustee for a number of horticulture-related charities.