27 Books Every landscape Designer should Read

Ta-da! a blog post with a list. I believe this is my second post with a list . . . the 1st was about Viburnums. Anyway as requested here you go. Happy reading.

 This is my partial book list that I think every Professional Landscape designer should have/read:

• Gardens are for People, by Thomas Church
  
• Natural Pattern Forms, by Richard Dube'
• The Zen of Seeing, by Frederick Franck
• The Tao of Architecture, by Amos Ih Tiao Chang
• Space and Illusion, by Teiji Itoh
• Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens, by David Slawson
• Siftings, by Jans Jensen
• Isamu Noguchi "Space of Akari & Stone, Chronicle Books
• In the Company of Stone, by Dan Snow
• Drawing and Designing with Confidence, by Mike Lin
• The Inward Gardener, by Julie Messervy
• Designing with Plants, by Piet Oudolf
• The Landscape of Man, by Geoffery and Susan Jellicoe
• Creative Gardens, by James Rose
• Residential Landscape Architecture, by Booth and Hiss
• Architecture in the Garden, by James Van Sweden
• Gardens by Design, by Noel Kingsbury
• Planting the Natural Garden, by Piet Oudolf
• Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design, by hubbard and Kimball
• Noguchi "East and West, by Dore Ashton
• The Golden Bough, by Sir James George Frazier
• As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen
• Who moved my Cheese, by Spencer Johnson
• Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, by Mike Dirr
• The Native Plant Primer, by Carole Ottesen
• Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing, by Frederick Franck
• From Concept to From in Landscape Design, by Grant Reid

This is only part of what is in my library. I have suggested every one of these books because they have made a difference in my professional career. I know that I am missing a few from this list and when I figure out which ones, I will post those also.

Props to Victoria Scott at Mississipppi State for prompting me to write this list. I hope it will be as helpful to you and all other students who want to enter such a great field has they have (and will continue to be) for me.

Have something you think I should read, or a comment on the above list, let me know . . .