Learn from the West's best garden designers how to combine easy-care shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, succulents, and groundcovers with spectacular results. Plus, the latest water-wise design strategies, from lawn replacements to low-water patio plantings.

"Green lawns are restful to the eye, provide an excellent backdrop to plants and trees and keep the weeds down, but in low-rainfall regions they often end up looking scrappy and brown. This book offers low-level planting designs that are ecofriendly and so beautiful they redefine the conventional distinction between lawn and plant borders. Inspired by the wild plant communities of Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S., these rigorously trialed plant...