Southampton - Whether starting from scratch or fine-tuning an existing design, anyone looking for garden ideas will find "The Garden Source: Inspirational Design Ideas for Gardens and Landscapes" an invaluable resource. With hundreds of full-color images cleverly arranged to offer thousands of possible design solutions and inspirations for any type of garden, the book includes gardens from all over the world and features projects by the best contemporary designers at work today, including Topher Delaney, , Piet Oudolf, Rick Darke, Sean Hogan, and many others.

"The Garden Source Inspirational Design Ideas for Gardens and Landscapes" by Andrea Jones, with Foreword by James Van Sweden is availble in Paperback/320 pages at $39.95.

The book is divided into four sections: Connect looks at design features that act either as connecting or dividing elements in garden spaces; Divide considers elements that can be used to create rooms within gardens; Space explores different spatial types; and Styles covers every type of garden style throughout history, from cottage gardens to today's minimalist designs. Alongside never-before-seen private gardens, 'The Garden Source' also includes celebrated public spaces such as Manhattan's High Line - a disused elevated freight track redesigned into innovative, naturalistic plantings - whose ideas can be adapted for the home garden. Rounded out with a series of useful directories on designers, sources, and public gardens, this is the book for garden design ideas.

About The Authors
Andrea Jones is one of the world's leading garden photographers. Her work has appeared in Garden Design, Sunset, National Geographic, and Country Living. James van Sweden co-founded Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc., specializing in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.