Dry Gardens: High Style for Low Water Gardens

(Hardback)

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Featuring 25 indoor and outdoor gardens and landscapes each detailed project offers a different approach to incorporating the desert flora. With designs by Daniel Nolan as well as other leading garden designers such as Judy Kameon, Terremoto Studio, Mark Word, and Steve Martino, Modern Dry Garden offers techniques and designs to inspire readers to transform any available space into their own modern dry garden. Rich with bold architecture of spiny cacti, brilliant and muted sage, rosy succulents, bright, dusty sands, and red rocks, Modern Dry Garden will prove that inspiration has no geographic boundaries, and will be loved by lovers of gardens and interior design from around the world.

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"This book on xeriscaping gardening that requires no water from irrigation documents the best of a new and inevitably necessary adaptation in landscaping. Landscape designer David Nolan compiles some of the most striking examples of minimal, cactus-and-agave-filled gardens that require little to no watering." -New York Magazine


"The gardens are gorgeous and aspirational. Nolan seeks not to educate or proselytize about low-water gardening. With minimal text that sets the scene, he lets the photos do the talking. If you want to learn how the gardens save water through plant choice, grading, or other practicalities, this is not the book for you. Its garden porn, pure and simple. Fans of modern design will especially love it." Digging

"Who knew dry could look so lush San Francisco landscape designer Daniel Nolan presents 25 examples of drought-tolerant gardens of his and others designs with richly saturated photos by Caitlin Atkinson." Society of Architectural Historians

The textures, architectural shapes, and lushness of the dry gardens captured by Daniel Nolan are overwhelming. His book has inspired me to create my own dry garden in LA. I am always trying to find ways to conserve water and never thought a garden could be so beautifulwith so little water.
Jacqueline Schulze Weitzen, director, communications, GOOP

Author Bio

Daniel Nolan has been designing gardens for a decade. At Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles Daniel began mixing the Mediterranean plant palette he fell in love with in California with the refined aesthetic he grew up with in the Brandywine Valley, outside Philadelphia. A dream job as a merchandiser for the famous Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco in 2009 expanded his knowledge of plant material and soon he was in demand by store clients to help them transform their interior and exterior plantscapes. Since Daniel has designed projects ranging from living walls for homes and restaurants to transformations of residential gardens and public spaces across the Bay Area. His projects have expanded to properties designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Clos Pegase winery designed Micheal Graves and he is sought after by many of San Francisco's creative and tech leaders. His work has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Elle Dcor, Cond Nast Traveler, Monocle, The San Francisco Chronicle and Sunset Magazine.

Caitlin Atkinson's photographs of gardens, still life and interiors are infused with an appreciation of the natural world. Her work has appeared in national magazines: Elle Decor, Garden Design, Dwell, Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Harpers Bazaar and Sunset Magazine. She wrote and photographed Plant Craft: 30 Projects that Add Natural Style to your Home. Atkinson photographed the upcoming release Designing with Palms and Air Plants: The Curious World of Tillandsias. She has contributed photographs to numerous books. See more of her work at: Website: www.caitlinatkinson.net & Instagram: @mscaitlinatkinson