A Garden’s Purpose: Cultivating Our Connection with the Natural World
By Félix De Rosen
→ Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
The garden provides a powerful, generous way of looking at the world. Through stories and essays, this gracious volume invites readers on a journey to understand gardens as places where we build mutually beneficial relationships with the living world around us. Each chapter in this book is dedicated to a specific idea or element of the garden, from places where gardens grow (i.e., a driveway in San Francisco, a bathtub as a planter) to garden management (why some lawns need watering every few days, and some gardens can go almost a full year without irrigation) to color and texture (i.e., how fine-textured plants like grasses can be used to unify a space), and everything in between.