Penelope Hobhouse's Natural Planting
In the last century, and particularly in the last few decades,  interest in regional gardening with native plants and hardy exotics has  greatly increased. Busy gardeners love the unfussy, low-maintenance  beauty it affords them, and many wonderful examples of natural planting  now exist--Chicago's Botanical Gardens, Winterthur in Delaware, and  hundreds of other beautiful public and private gardens. Penelope  Hobhouse examines the history and botanical details of the natural  tradition in a wide array of habitats and climatic zones in this  serious book, which includes photographs of gardens all over the world  by the fine garden photographer Jerry Harpur.