Paradise by design : native plants and the new American landscape /

Phillips, Kathryn.

Paradise by design : native plants and the new American landscape / Kathryn Phillips. - New York : North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 - 265 p. 24 cm.

Every day when she arrives at work, landscape architect Joni Janecki faces the daunting task of creating a piece of paradise for her clients. Journalist Kathryn Phillips follows Janecki as she struggles with anxious clients, pest plants, pesky budgets, and self-doubts. The result is an engrossing narrative which illuminates the complex forces that shape so much of the natural world we see every day. "www.shelfari.com"

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Landscape architects--Montecito.
Landscape architecture--United States.
Native plants for cultivation--California
Natural gardens--United States--California--United States.

SB 470.J35 / .P544 1998