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"Having a maximalist garden is a bold aesthetic choice--yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant expression of more. Garden to the Max celebrates gardens across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers...Featured gardeners include an amateur ornithologist seeking to attract more birds, an event planner's tropical paradise, a pair of city dwellers reducing their carbon footprint, an urban garden pioneer promoting pollinator gardens, and a life-long biophilic propagating endangered plants to nurture insects." --
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Teresa Woodard brings a background in magazine writing and gardening experience. During her 14-year writing career, she has written and produced garden content for regional and national publications, including Better Homes & Gardens and Country Gardens, and currently serves as contributing garden editor at Midwest Living magazine. She has won Gold and Silver Media Awards from GardenComm. Outside of work, she gardens at her home near Columbus, Ohio, and volunteers at an urban garden teaching youth about growing food.Chicago based photographer Bob Stefko's career spans nearly 20 years as an editorial and commercial shooter. During that time he has photographed a diverse range of subjects including Fortune 100 CEOs, Olympic athletes, Presidential Gardens and some of the worlds most remote landscapes. His work regularly appears in
Better Homes and Gardens,
Forbes,
Wine Spectator and
Midwest Living magazine to name just a few. Bob has completed two books on travel and food for Globe Pequot and Meredith Corporation. His travel images from around the globe are represented and sold worldwide by Getty Images. His work has been featured in Photo District News many times including most recently in their Nature's Best issue. When not snapping pictures you can usually find Bob living his secret life as a general contractor, urban gardener, wannabe chef or tinkering in his basement shop.
Zusammenfassung
The first book to introduce "maximalism" as a garden design trend, with 20 profiles of gardens where more is more-biodiversity, riotous color, daring combinations, and plants, plants, plants!
