Your Rad Garden: Freedom, Purpose, and Meaning in Your Backyard

Create a rad garden that reflects your personal lifestyle! This book is for independent thinkers who love beauty and nature and want to enhance their outdoor living experience. “Your Rad Garden” offers themes like garden “editing,” our tolerance for messiness, creating “rooms” in your garden, how to enhance microclimate, and more. It will make you smarter about your residential or other small-scale landscape by explaining the principles behind design thinking as well as the challenges created by current development practices. You’ll discover that architectural function, beauty, and sustainability can all be achieved together. “Your Rad Garden” will help you to trust your instincts and build your confidence. The author is a landscape architect who has over 30 years of design experience gained in New York, New England, and Italy. She has taught landscape design at a number of universities, served on community boards, and spoken at design conferences. She currently owns Pebble-stream, a boutique landscape architectural consultancy in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of New York. “Your Rad Garden” is the perfect companion to your landscape design sourcebooks with their “dream garden” images. It is for everyone who wants to tackle garden design, whether on their own or by teaming with a professional. It is a “why,” more than a “how to” book. This short read will open your mind to a deeper vision of landscapes designed for living with nature. Here’s to creating a rad garden teeming with life!