A landscape architect practicing in both Britain and New Zealand, Robinson incorporates changes in vegetation design practice and theory over the ten years since the first edition, and alters
the format to give greater emphasis to the visual nature of the subject. Planting design is fundamental to landscape design and landscape architecture, he says, and can and should determine
shape and form in both rural and urban places at great and small scales. He considers such aspects as plants as a medium for design, spatial characteristics of plants, composite landscape,
principles of visual composition, a method for planting design, and structural and ornamental planting. A battery of color photographs is included along with many monochrome photographs and
drawings. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
