DiSabato-Aust, Tracy. The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Timber. Feb. 2003. c.460p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 2002023191. ISBN 0-88192-559-4. $39.95. GARDENING

DiSabato-Aust is a professional landscape designer and author of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, the first gardening book to offer thorough advice on pruning and maintaining perennial gardens. She expands her focus here to the mixed border, which incorporates permanent woody plants as well as perennials, annuals, and other plants that die back to the ground every year. Other garden writers, in particular Ann Lovejoy, have written about the mixed border, but this new book stands out for its comprehensive approach to designing the border; examples of designs for both …