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American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining Our Home Gardens Hardcover – October 25, 2022

by Nick McCullough (Author), Allison McCullough (Author), Teresa Woodard (Author)

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“I love this book. Here are home gardens of designers from every part of our great country that are inspiring proof of a passionate vitality and freshness in American gardening today.” — Page Dickey, author of Uprooted

In recent years, bold designers have begun championing an American design aesthetic that embraces regional cultures, plants, and growing conditions. In American Roots, Nick McCullough, Allison McCullough, and Teresa Woodard highlight designers and creatives with exceptional home gardens, focused on those who push the boundaries, trial extraordinary plants, embrace a regional ethos, and express their talents in highly personal ways. Covering all the regions of the country, the profiles dive into design influences, share the back stories of the gardens and their creators, and include design tips and plant suggestions.

American Roots is a beautiful invitation to reconsider how we define the American garden, filled with guidance and encouragement for anyone looking to dig more deeply into their own home garden.

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“This transcontinental tour of modern home gardens showcases a healthy dose of gardener and garden diversity across the spectrum of the American landscape. It offers lessons and inspiration and ingeniously seasons them with playfulness, passion, and purpose.” —Jennifer Jewell, author of Under Western Skies and The Earth in Her Hands, host of Cultivating Place

“As an editor of a national magazine, I know how difficult it is to find gardens beautiful enough to inspire people across the country. This book does just that—letting us have a peek over the fence to discover new plants, design ideas, and the gardeners themselves.” —Stephen Orr, editor in chief, Better Homes Gardens

“Includes design tips and ideas to inspire home gardeners everywhere.” —Library Journal

“A garden is a personal thing, and it is about time we have a book that will inspire American gardeners to be personal about their design and plants. American Roots is well worth a place either on the coffee table or in the library of every gardener.” —Sidney Frazier, vice president of horticulture, Middleton Place

“I love this book. Here are home gardens of designers from every part of our great country that are inspiring proof of a passionate vitality and freshness in American gardening today.” —Page Dickey, author of Uprooted, co-founder of The Garden Conservancy Open Days

“American Roots serves as not just a celebration of US gardening styles but also of an overarching gardening community, of which its readers are a warmly welcomed part.” —Horticulture

“American Roots warms readers’ hearts by showing both the diversity and unity within the community of American gardeners.” —Su Casa Magazine

“Featuring modern and classic gardens, coast-to-coast, there is green inspiration on every page.” —Good Grit

“Focusing on regional native plants and on creating outdoor spaces that are a reflection of place, these innovative gardeners are helping to shift the way every element of a garden is chosen.” —Orange County Register

"The collaborators travelled the length and breadth of the USA discovering remarkable gardens….I urge you to read and enjoy.” —Gardens Illustrated

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Nick McCullough is a certified designer by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and served on its board. He holds degrees in horticulture and art history from The Ohio State University and studied landscape design in Northwest England. A self- described "plant nerd," Nick is passionate about perennials and has a masterful understanding of how plants thrive in regional climates. Allison McCullough is the head of marketing for McCullough's Landscape & Nursery, Allison ensures the brand delivers thoughtful communications and special touches that only come from a family-owned business. Teresa Woodard brings a background in magazine writing and gardening experience. During her 14-year writing career, she has written and produced garden content for regional and national publications, including Better Homes & Gardens, Tribune Publishing, and Country Gardens and currently serves as Contributing Garden Editor at Midwest Living magazine. She has won Gold and Silver Awards by the Association of Garden Communicators.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Timber Press (October 25, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1643261169
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643261164
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.84 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 0.9 x 10.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #172,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #40 in Garden Pictorials
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Nick McCullough is an award-winning garden designer whose striking designs rely on a balance of natural paving and innovative perennial plantings. His firm is based in New Albany, Ohio where he and his team creates & maintain timeless bold gardens in and around the Midwest. Through his love for travel Nick has become an experience landscape photographer who loves to shares stories through the lens of his camera. Nick also lectures and gives workshops on garden design across the US and abroad.
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Teresa Woodard brings a background in magazine writing and gardening experience. During her 14-year writing career, she has written and produced garden content for regional and national publications including Better Homes & Gardens and Country Gardens and currently serves as contributing garden editor at Midwest Living magazine. She has won Gold and Silver Media Awards from GardenComm. Outside of work, she gardens at her home near Columbus, Ohio and volunteers at an urban garden teaching youth about growing food and advises America in Bloom communities across the country.
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Jennifer J. Meredith

Inspiring and Helpful!

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2023

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While many books are beautiful coffee table displays that inspire, this one actually has actionable information for how to take that inspiration and make it into your own landscape. The photos are stunning, but reading each of the designers tips for how to make my own home more beautiful was the most satisfying.

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Nice book but...where's the West?

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2022

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A good look at gardens across the US, but as is par for the course with east coast/midwest writers, the West gets short shrift. The Midwest shows 6 gardens in 86 pages, the East Coast has 5 gardens in 79 pages, and the South features 5 gardens in 60 pages. But the West (which includes only gardens from Washington, Oregon, and California) has 4 gardens in 55 pages. Come on, authors, the West is huge and has a stunning diversity of ecosystems and plant species! (The California Floristic Province alone has about 8000 plants species, with 61% of vascular plant species found nowhere else in the world.) Other than this egregious shortcoming, they did a nice job on the photography and information presented. With a caveat that the West is poorly represented, I'd still recommend it to my gardening friends.

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J.S.

Beautiful photos! Well written!

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2022

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Not only is this book beautiful it's well written! You can tell this is from gardeners the details are there. You get a sense of the gardens and the details too. It's grouped into regions but you can learn something from each. I have beautiful gardening coffee table books that I always wish gave me more and were photographed with gardeners in mind and this is that!

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Chrissy Collins

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Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2022

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Now that our gardens are tucked away for winter we can rest and cuddle up with the best gardening book of the year. I am savoring each page and feeling at home with every one of the featured gardeners ( including my YouTube favorite Erin, of the Impatient Gardener) and relaxing in knowing that these are American (not English) gardens so imperfect like mine (I had to chuckle at the unplanned on page 52) Treat yourself to this delight...you have worked hard over the past seven plus mos in your garden as have I.

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George D. Christie

Show piece gardens as accurate representations of outdated gardening concepts.

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022

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Based on the "look inside" pages this is another book of beautiful gardens artfully designed to have minimal actual contact with the world around them. I didn't check every caption, but non-native plants and high-maintenance situations is the overwhelming theme of the book. Very 20th century. These are not the gardens we should be aspiring to.

UPDATE (1/7/2023): So a couple days ago I received a copy of this book in the mail. When I opened the package I thought, oh this is the book I don't much like, why am I getting it? It turns out one of the authors sent me a copy hoping that, after seeing the entire array of gardens, I would revise my review.

I've gone through every page of the entire book three times now and admit I may have been a bit harsh. There are nuggets of inspiration for forward-thinking guardians of nature. And I realize now the editorial process involved may have, intentionally or otherwise, damped some of the designers' tilt towards native plants and earth-wise planting. For example, Jeanette Bell has done award-winning work to teach urban farming in underserved neighborhoods but her favorite plants are nine species of roses. What a missed opportunity to champion urban farming!

I also was interested to see Benjamin Vogt's garden included and would suggest his "A New Garden Ethic" is a worthy read. Ironically, it formed part of my evolution away from the majority of the types of gardens displayed in this book.

I have to be honest, fifteen years ago I bought books like this and planted plants like these. My favorite Japanese forest grass was Beni Kaze and I planted it under a Tamukeyama Japanese maple over a low, emergent boulder in my Foster, Rhode Island yard. It was lovely. And when there was ample open space and native wildlife, we could afford such foreign whimsy.

Today, throughout much of America, only one bird flies in an area that four used to call home. Insect numbers are crashing, plant species are losing ground, literally. I currently work as the rare species data clerk for the Rhode Island Natural History Survey. Rhode Island boasts nearly forty species of wild orchid...on paper. Roughly half, however, haven't been recorded in 20 or more years.

And I think many of the designers in this book actually are starting to come to grips with the new reality, though most of the designs touted (and the editorial decisions as to what to highlight) remain firmly entrenched in the American design format of localized imitation of the formal and informal gardens of European nobility.

I've added a star for two reasons. First, there IS an under-current of forward-thinking earth-guardianship planting that runs through the book. Second, it was a gutsy move to send me a copy of a book I clearly didn't like. I still find find it twenty years out of date, but I don't hate it--the copy I was given will be donated to the local library.

Now, What do I like? First, Doug Tallamy's "Brining Nature Home," is an essential read. In it he details the evidence in favor of using more native plants in your gardens. I suspect a decent percentage of the designers here have a copy of it on their own shelves, and some have taken its message to heart. It came out in 2007 and is the principle reason why I find "American Roots" to be so dated.

Second, while some of the designers mentioned local environmental conditions in "American Roots," there was no overall discussion of what to do about it. So, I strongly recommend "Climate-wise Landscaping" by Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt. They offer a range of practical solutions to typical environmental problems faced by modern property owners.

Third, our gardens do not exist in a vacuum and it isn't just native plant populations that are crashing. Insect, spider and other small animal species are in significant trouble. I wager if you google "bumble bee species in my state" anywhere in the USA you will discover a third or more of the native bumble bee species are gone or in serious decline. I (with an MS in Entomology) have found Heather Holm's "Pollinators of Native Plants" to be perhaps the best recent (2014) guide to understanding the life-or-death role your plant decisions play in enhancing local pollinator populations.

Fourth, if your really interested in a real American garden design aesthetic, I recommend Rick Darke's "The American Woodland Garden" (2002). A deep exploration of the garden and gardener's deep connection to the surrounding environment, this book has much to offer those who seek to live in a more-nature world.

Then, there are the calls to arms. We come back to Doug Tallamy with "Bringing Nature Home" (2019) which expands on his work on the pressing need for planting native plants and champions "A new approach to conservation that starts in your yard" (title page). Again, fifty years ago we could excuse our desire for Japanese maples, Korean dogwoods, and Mediterranean lavenders either due to ignorance of their impact on the local fauna or because preserving native species was the job of the Nature Conservancy or Audubon Society. We really can't pretend such is the case anymore.

And "We are the Ark" by Mary Reynolds (2022) is a freshly published call to action to a de-design ethos of property ownership. As she says, "Looking at gardens as artistic endeavours or feasts for our senses is outmoded." She calls our two-hundred-year obsession with bending nature to our "outdoor room" goals the great forgetting, where we gained additional living space for ourselves, while forgetting the bounty of nature destroyed by our unnatural plantings. As she writes, "The history of landscape design is a record of the multiple cultural guillotines that severed us from nature. From purposeful guardians of the earth without boundaries or ownership, humans became plant artists, garden designers, landscape architects (full disclosure, I have a Bachelors in Landscape Architecture), earth sculptors, and statement makers, working and designing with living sentient beings as our canvas and materials of choice." Yup.

Of course, habitat destruction, poaching, pollution, agricultural pesticide use, and an overwhelming dependency on fossil fuels all contribute to the collapse of the environment, but our impact on changing any of those is tiny. On our own property, however, our impact can be much greater. My yard would never qualify for "American Roots," but in the six years we've lived here I've planted over 60 species of native plants. Not all have done great. But many have. To be honest, having learned what I have from the books listed above (any many others), I no longer see my garden as a garden. Right now, on a back bench and in one of our raised beds, I am over-wintering nearly three-hundred pots of native seeds, the vast majority of which I will give away. My land is a nursery and a seed bank. Using seed as locally sourced as possible, my goal is to send waves of native seeds and plants out into the world around me. Does it work? This past summer I initiated a personal study of Syrphid flies (hover or flower flies). Over the course of the season, my 1/4 acre lot produced as much diversity as a multiple acre wildflower plots at URI. There weren't as many of course, and it took longer to find them, but the diversity was a functional tie.

Every single plant makes a difference.

Meaning I have travelled a very long way away from most of the gardens in "American Roots."

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What a wonderful book!

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2023

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Beautifully written with outstanding pictures, this book will help any neighborhood gardener with lots of ideas and how-tos. Love this book!

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2022

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Some of the gardens and stories and pictures align well and captivate you. With others, it’s more difficult to connect the stories, pictures and gardens per the stated theme.

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Julie

Wow! This book is well worth the price

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2022

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Wow! I will definitely sit and enjoy this book page by page! I love it so much I will be purchasing several for Christmas gifts and secret Santa gift for gardening club. It is very obvious the time and effort put into this book. Inspirational pictures AND instructions on how to create the space in the beautiful pictures. 10/10 recommend

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Great garden photos

Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2023

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The short descriptions of each garden and gardener(s) were easy to read and certainly inspiring. Each garden featured included favourite plants and great garden photos that were inspiring.

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