Her past is riddled with secrets. His future is shrouded in uncertainty. Can love blossom when the past and present collide? Landscape designer Serenity Gagliardi is a successful businesswoman. Along with four friends, she rejuvenates neglected properties and takes them from forgotten to fabulous. But her heart hides a secret that she’s buried in the pursuit of a full and happy life. After her first and only love reappears, old yearnings flame—igniting the fear she may lose the one thing she prizes above all else… Pro soccer player Travis Southwick has lived a charmed life in the spotlight, until an injury forces him to leave the game he loves. Facing an uncertain future, he returns home to care for his recently widowed mother. Thrust into the path of his childhood sweetheart, the only woman he ever loved, Travis finds his desire for her burns as hot as ever. But Serenity was the one who abandoned their plans for a life together. Serenity’s secret once revealed, forces Travis to face new challenges and build new dreams. Is there a chance they can open their hearts to love a second time? Beyond the fear and doubt stems hope that the truth is a seed, one that can grow into love, coming at last to full bloom… Serenity’s Garden is the second book in the captivating Building on Love contemporary romance series. Buy Serenity’s Garden today and watch love unfold!

Learn the principles and practices of Feng Shui with this beautifully illustrated garden design book. Feng Shui Garden Design teaches how to apply Feng Shui to the garden you have to protect your home from poisonous energy, enhance your love life, improve your finances and help ease family tensions. In addition to helping you create a living space for meditation and stress release, the principles illustrated in Feng Shui Garden Design enhance the flow of energy in your home and your life. Whether you have a balcony garden, mini garden, large yard or park, Feng Shui teaches how to harmonize yin and yang and the five elements—earth, metal, water, wood, fire—to achieve peace, balance and prosperity. Learn how to: Integrate garden design and Feng Shui Analyze the flow of energy, or qi, in your garden Use plants and garden features to enhance positive energy Apply Feng Shui cures to your garden Creatively use Feng Shui in a small garden Feng Shui Garden Design is an inspirational, beautifully illustrated book that will help encourage financial success, harmony in your relationships, and luck in your ventures, studies and plans. Tap into the cycle of energy flows of the seasons and have fun creating a garden that will give pleasure to you, your family and friends.

“Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape—boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.” - Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen’s new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to “co-creating with nature” will have you saying, “I can do that!’ This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using ‘real world’ solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as ‘Soften a Corner”, “Paint it Black”, and “Hide and Reveal”.

‘The most romantic, creative person in garden design I know.’ Piet Oudolf ‘Jinny's genius is to marry a beautiful vision to an extraordinary empathy with the landscape into which that vision will fit, resulting in a pastoral harmony second to none’ Victoria, Lady Getty Prolific designer Jinny Blom embraces a wide variety of styles, from large garden spaces to formal walled gardensand contemporary installations. What defines her work is her skill with plants and her ability to create a garden that responds to the history of the site and the wider landscape. The gardens Jinny creates are as different as their owners and their locations. In this book, Jinny shares her insight into the creative process she has developed while designing more than 250 gardens around the world. The Thoughtful Gardener contains modern takes on traditional forms, and is split into six sections: seeing, understanding, structuring, harmonising, rooting, and liberating. All of Jinny's gardens share a commitment to beautiful craftsmanship and considered planting. Structure and detail are important, and receive close attention. The styles vary considerably – logical, calm, beautiful, romantic, naturalistic, formal, sometimes spare – but the principles remain firm. Jinny designs for the long term, with consideration for the environment; these gardens are built to last. Reflecting Jinny‘s highly individual character, there is plenty of wit and quirkiness alongside the expert knowledge, and it will appeal to the widest audience of garden lovers. Thoughtful and beautiful, yet practical and informative, this book marries artistry with functionality.

First published in French as Alternatives au gazon in 2011.

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bernard Maybeck is accented with a freehand composition of urns, cement pipes and rusty objects, as well as over a thousand species of plants. A grove of olive trees underplanted with rosemary and lavender fields gives personality to two acres surrounding a house designed by modernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.