TY - BOOK AU - Phillips, Kathryn. TI - Paradise by design: native plants and the new American landscape SN - 865475199 AV - SB 470.J35 .P544 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Landscape architects KW - Montecito KW - Landscape architecture KW - United States KW - Native plants for cultivation KW - California KW - Natural gardens N2 - 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" ER -