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Title: The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs by Tracy Disabato-Aust, Martin Knapp, Stacey Renee Peters, C. Colston Burrell ISBN: 0-88192-559-4 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Garden Design for everyone, novice to expert
Comment: When I started gardening Tracy DiSabato-Aust's first book, the Well Tended Perennial Garden was one of the first I purchased. Today with mud-stained, well-creased pages, it is still one of my favorite and primary reference books. Her second book, written with the same practical and enthusiastic advice, is useful to all gardeners, from beginner to advanced. DiSabato-Aust clearly believes anyone, with any yard, can have a beautiful garden. This book is less reference than the first one, but valuable in its own right. As a scientist, I didn't exactly agree with her descriptions of color, but putting aside my background, I found the information on color design to explain why some parts of my garden just didn't look quite right. The first part is "theory", but amply illustrated and diagrammed. The second part, her example gardens, might not translate immediately into your (or my) yard, but they are useful teaching tools. Finally, the last third of the book is are great encyclopedic appendices about different kinds of plants, where to put them and how they fit into the overall design of the garden.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Designers Must!
Comment: Designing a garden can become frustrating, but The Well-Designed Mixed Garden leads you through the process. It takes time to design a garden, not to mention having knowledge of each plants characteristics. Tracy DiSabato-Aust has given all tools needed to design your garden. In this book, the color shcemes are shown not only in colored drawings, but also in actual photographs that give a real description and feeling in the planting groups. One cannot compare this book to the authors other book, The Well-Tended Perennial Book(5 stars), because the concept is totally different. This is a great reference book!

Rating: 5
Summary: A great work.
Comment: I am designing a garden for my campus and continue to work on my home landscape. The Well-Designed Mixed Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust answers my questions like it knows what I am thinking. I was wondering about garden scale in relation to buildings, among other things, and now have a good idea. I find a treasure trove of information for my consideration and use in this book (as well as in the Well-Tended Perennial Garden). The discussion of color is intense and wonderful. The reference areas and examples are invaluable. The writing style is friendly and unstuffy. The information is inspired and important. I am grateful for this book both for my job and my home landscape. It has been commuting with me every day for the past 2 weeks.

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