Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love

"Julie Moir Messervy's latest book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love, stands out as distinctly in the crowded world of garden books, as a whimsical and finely groomed topiary in the middle of a vast suburban lawn. Julie distills her knowledge into concepts and aesthetics so readable and doable that even the beginning gardener will feel comfortable creating a personal and welcoming landscape. This user-friendly, and earth-easy volume will be my design companion for years to come." --Sharon Lovejoy is the author of Trowel & Error, A Blessing of Toads, Roots Shoots Buckets & Boots, and Sunflower Houses

The outside of your home deserves your attention too. After all, it is part of the house. Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love by Julie Moir Messervy (The Taunton Press; $30; hardcover) offers a six-step process that can help you make the outside of your living space an extension of the inside. --Orlando Sentinel, February 14, 2009