GARDEN WONDERLAND

A visual feast of garden design inspiration that embraces diversity and teaches you how to create a lush, colorful, edible, and meaningful garden wonderland of your own.

Award-winning garden designer Leslie Bennett creates gardens filled with stunning layers of color and texture. But even more than that, they "feed the eye and nourish the soul" E( lle Decor).

Featuring practical how-to information alongside examples from nineteen gardens, Bennett shows how to incorporate personal and edible elements into the landscape to honor a variety of cultures, while including families of all shapes and sizes, to create space that nurtures self, community, and more. For example, the team designed a garden for the cofounder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation to showcase art from emerging Black artists, while for a vegan chef's garden, they incorporated unusual vegetables that can't be found in grocery stores. A garden for a daughter of diplomats reflects the many places she's lived around the world; for a family that wants to beautify their neighborhood, they designed a vibrant community-oriented front yard.

With chapters on floral, edible, gathering, healing, and cultural wonderlands, Bennett provides advice for tailoring a garden to your own needs, whether it's a place to host elegant garden parties, for children to play, to grow your own food and creativity, or a sanctuary to rest and relax. In Garden Wonderland, Bennett helps you unlock the potential of your garden to become a space of inspiring natural beauty, abundance, connection, and belonging.

Leslie Bennett is the owner of Pine House Edible Gardens, a landscape design/build firm based in Oakland, California, and coauthor of The Beautiful Edible Garden. She is the winner of the American Horticultural Society's award for Landscape Design and her work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart Living, Garden Design, Sunset, American Gardener, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Gardenista. Bennett is the founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens, a project that creates spaces of refuge and beauty in collaboration with Black women and communities.

Julie Chai is a garden writer and editor, and is the former senior garden editor of Sunset Magazine and the editor of Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias, New York Times bestselling Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers, and Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden, and Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias. Her work has been featured by media including Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes & Gardens, HGTV, the San Francisco Chronicle, Gardenista, and Sunset Magazine where she was the senior garden editor. She lives and gardens in Los Altos, California, with her husband and son.