Books
Creating Home Outside: Disc One - Design Seminar Video
By Julie Moir Messervy
JMMDS, 2010
Creating Home Outside: Disc One guides you through the first steps of Julie's proven design process. Order your copy and be on your way to a Home Outside of your own! Best viewed with the book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love.
The Toronto Music Garden: Inspired by Bach
By Julie Moir Messervy
JMMDS, 2009
The Toronto Music Garden: Inspired by Bach is an in-depth guide to the conception and creation of this award-winning three-acre public garden, designed by Julie Moir Messervy in collaboration with eminent cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The book is being released in celebration of the Music Garden’s tenth anniversary.
Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love
By Julie Moir Messervy
The Taunton Press, 2009
Home Outside is a user-friendly guide to composing a unique and personal landscape. Clear and concise writing, together with beautiful photographs, before and after images, diagrams, green tips and case studies, all illustrate that good landscape design is approachable, affordable and attainable. View the Press Kit
The Inward Garden: Creating A Place of Beauty and Meaning
By Julie Moir Messervy - Photographs by Sam Abell
Bunker Hill Publishing, 2007
When The Inward Garden first was published in 1995, Julie Moir Messervy introduced a new movement in landscape design: a process that was as much a personal journey as it was a singularly rewarding method for creating a garden of one's own. With this re-launch of her award-winning, classic book, her words continue to resonate, awakening in us the power of nature and the magic of special places in our busy lives.
Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
By Julie Moir Messervy and Sarah Susanka - Photographs by Grey Crawford
Taunton Press, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, noted landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy and bestselling author Sarah Susanka reveal how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony. In Outside the Not So Big House, Julie and Sarah teach you everything you need to know about the design concepts essential to extending your home beyond its four walls.
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The Magic Land: Designing Your Own Enchanted Garden
By Julie Moir Messervy
Macmillan Publishing, 1998
This is a little idea book for your imagination: full of concepts, images, and principles that can help you take what is now a yard and make it into a garden — a land full of meaning and magic.
Contemplative Gardens
By Julie Moir Messervy - Photographs by Sam Abell
Howell Press, 1990
In Contemplative Gardens, landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy and National Geographic photographer Sam Abell explore how people of many times, nations, and cultures have created gardens that reflect the deep human need for places of physical and spiritual refreshment.
Tenshin-En: The Garden of the Heart of Heaven
By Julie Moir Messervy
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), July 1999
Infinite Spaces: The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden
By Joe Earle - Introduction by Julie Moir Messervy
Tuttle Publishing, 2000
Infinite Spaces pairs extracts from the Sakuteiki with inspiring images that beautifully illustrate the principles of this ancient work. Sadao Hibi’s superb photographs capture some of Japan’s best-known gardens—from austere compositions in stone and gravel to richly planted landscapes.
Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook
By Jennifer R. Bartley - Introduction by Julie Moir Messervy
Timber Press, 2006
The classic kitchen garden, or potager, has long been a part of European culture and consciousness. In this handsome volume, Jennifer Bartley shows how the traditional features of a potager can be adapted to American needs and conditions.
Gardens by Design: Expert Advice From the World's Leading Garden Designers
By Noel Kingsbury - Julie Moir Messervy, Featured Designer
Timber Press, 2005
Gathering together the design principles and tricks of the trade of the world's greatest garden makers, Gardens by Design provides expert help in all aspects of the design process.
The Lure of the Japanese Garden
By Alison Main & Newell Platten - Introduction by Julie Moir Messervy
WW Norton & Company, Inc., 2002
The Lure of the Japanese Garden takes you on a tour of 120 gardens across Japan, covering a broader geographical spread than any other current book in English. Along the way, Alison Main and Newell Platten describe not only the gardens’ physical aspects but also the historic, symbolic, religious and meditative meanings, purposes and allusions embodied in them.
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