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New Landscaping Ideas That Work

The most comprehensive source of inspired design ideas and practical solutions for all landscaping and outdoor living spaces. Pragmatic design advice as well as over 350 innovative ideas combine to give homeowners the only sourcebook they’ll need to make smart design, buying, and installation decisions.

By Julie Moir Messervy
Taunton Press; 2nd edition (January 2018)
Paperback, 224 pages, 350 full-color photographs

Landscaping Ideas That Work

By Julie Moir Messervy
Taunton Press—2014
Paperback, 218 pages, 350 full-color photographs

Home Outside

Creating the Landscape You Love

By Julie Moir Messervy
Photography by Randy O’Rourke
The Taunton Press—2009
– Named one of 2009’s Best Gardening Books by The Washington Post
– An Amazon.com’s Editors’ Pick as one of the Top 10 Home and Garden Books of 2009
– Winner of the 2010 Garden Writers Association Gold Award for Best Book Writing

The Toronto Music Garden

Inspired by Bach

By Julie Moir Messervy
Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio—2009

The Inward Garden

Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning

By Julie Moir Messervy
Photography by Sam Abell
Bunker Hill Publishing—2007
Little, Brown and Company—1995

Outside the Not So Big House

Creating the Landscape of Home

By Julie Moir Messervy & Sarah Susanka
Photography by Grey Crawford
The Taunton Press—2006

Tenshin-en

The Garden of the Heart of Heaven

By Julie Moir Messervy, Kinsaku Nakane
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—July 1999

The Magic Land

Designing Your Own Enchanted Garden

By Julie Moir Messervy
Illustrations by Barbara Berger
Macmillan Publishing—1998

Contemplative Gardens

By Julie Moir Messervy
Photographs by Sam Abell
Howell Press—1990
Named “one of the ten best garden books” of 1990 by The New York Times.