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Belle Australian Landscape Designers | Garden Design Book

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Sale price$89.00

Gardens are the part of the home most people design last and think about most. This one goes straight at that, profiling twenty-six of Australia's leading landscape designers and the gardens they have made in a climate that gives nothing away easily.

Produced by Belle magazine with garden and interiors photographer Nicholas Watt and regular contributor Chris Pearson, Australian Landscape Designers runs to 348 pages at a generous 31 by 28cm. What makes it useful rather than merely handsome is the range. These are gardens built on difficult sites in harsh conditions, and the solutions are structural, planting-led and often surprisingly restrained. Because so much of the Australian palette overlaps with our own coastal and dry-summer conditions, it translates to New Zealand gardens better than most northern hemisphere titles.

Is it useful if I am not building a whole garden?

Yes. The value is in seeing how designers handle transitions, levels, screening and the relationship between a house and what surrounds it. Even a courtyard or a strip along a fence benefits from those principles. It pairs naturally with the residential architecture titles in the Books collection, since so many of the projects were designed alongside the houses they serve.

Who are the designers?

Twenty-six practices, spanning established names and newer studios, each given proper space rather than a single spread. If you are looking for someone to work with, or simply want to understand what separates a designed garden from a planted one, the breadth is the point.

It makes a substantial gift for a keen gardener, someone landscaping a new build, or the friend whose section is currently a blank slate and slightly overwhelming. Christmas, Father's Day and milestone birthdays all suit it. As a coffee table volume its scale alone makes it a statement piece.

Why You'll Love It

  • Twenty-six of Australia's leading landscape designers, each given real space
  • Photography by Nicholas Watt, with text by Chris Pearson for Belle
  • 348 pages at a generous 31 by 28cm format
  • Solutions for difficult sites and demanding climates
  • Principles that translate readily to New Zealand conditions

Where It Lives Best

This is a large and heavy book at over 2.6 kilograms, so it needs a solid surface and works best as the base of a stack rather than balanced on anything. The green-leaning cover sits beautifully against natural timber, stone and linen, and it looks particularly good in a room that opens onto the garden it is discussing. If you have an outdoor room or a covered deck, it earns a place on a side table there through summer.

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Belle Australian Landscape Designers | Garden Design Book Sale price$89.00

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