American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining Our Home Gardens

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American Roots is a lushly photographed, truly inspiring celebration of the wide-ranging styles that define the modern American garden, as revealed through the home gardens of twenty of the most important designers and creatives working today. For decades, many American gardens fell short on originality. People were content with cookie-cutter landscapes - the iconic lawn or the perennial-lined front walk and picket fence - or they mimicked foreign styles like English cottage gardens and Japanese Zen landscapes. This has changed in recent years, as bold designers are championing an American design aesthetic that embraces regional culture, plants, and growing conditions. American Roots celebrates this diversity by highlighting a thoughtfully curated list of designers and creatives with exceptional home gardens, focused on those who push boundaries, trial extraordinary plants, embrace a regional ethos, and express their talents in highly personal ways. Covering all the regions of the country, the profiles dive into design influences, share the back stories of the gardens and their designers, and offer information-packed sidebars with design tips and plant palettes. American Roots is an invitation to reconsider how we define the American garden and offers guidance and encouragement to anyone looking to dig more deeply into their own home garden. AUTHOR: Nick McCullough is a certified designer by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and served on its board. He holds degrees in horticulture and art history from The Ohio State University and studied landscape design in Northwest England. A self- described "plant nerd," Nick is passionate about perennials and has a masterful understanding of how plants thrive in regional climates. Allison McCullough is the head of marketing for McCullough's Landscape & Nursery, Allison ensures the brand delivers thoughtful communications and special touches that only come from a family-owned business. Teresa Woodward brings a background in magazine writing and gardening experience. During her 14-year writing career, she has written and produced garden content for regional and national publications, including Better Homes & Gardens, Tribune Publishing, and Country Gardens and currently serves as Contributing Garden Editor at Midwest Living magazine. She has won Gold and Silver Awards by the Association of Garden Communicators. 600 photographs

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"This transcontinental tour of modern home gardens showcases a healthy dose of gardener and garden diversity across the spectrum of the American landscape. It offers lessons and inspiration and ingeniously seasons them with playfulness, passion, and purpose." --Jennifer Jewell, author of Under Western Skies and The Earth in Her Hands, host of Cultivating Place

"As an editor of a national magazine, I know how difficult it is to find gardens beautiful enough to inspire people across the country. This book does just that--letting us have a peek over the fence to discover new plants, design ideas, and the gardeners themselves." --Stephen Orr, editor in chief, Better Homes Gardens

"Includes design tips and ideas to inspire home gardeners everywhere." --Library Journal

"A garden is a personal thing, and it is about time we have a book that will inspire American gardeners to be personal about their design and plants. American Roots is well worth a place either on the coffee table or in the library of every gardener." --Sidney Frazier, vice president of horticulture, Middleton Place

"I love this book. Here are home gardens of designers from every part of our great country that are inspiring proof of a passionate vitality and freshness in American gardening today." --Page Dickey, author of Uprooted, co-founder of The Garden Conservancy Open Days

"American Roots serves as not just a celebration of US gardening styles but also of an overarching gardening community, of which its readers are a warmly welcomed part." --Horticulture

Author Bio

Nick McCullough is a certified designer by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and served on its board. He holds degrees in horticulture and art history from The Ohio State University and studied landscape design in Northwest England. A self- described "plant nerd," Nick is passionate about perennials and has a masterful understanding of how plants thrive in regional climates. Allison McCullough is the head of marketing for McCullough's Landscape & Nursery, Allison ensures the brand delivers thoughtful communications and special touches that only come from a family-owned business. Teresa Woodward brings a background in magazine writing and gardening experience. During her 14-year writing career, she has written and produced garden content for regional and national publications, including Better Homes & Gardens, Tribune Publishing, and Country Gardens and currently serves as Contributing Garden Editor at Midwest Living magazine. She has won Gold and Silver Awards by the Association of Garden Communicators.