Stonescaping: A Guide to Using Stone in Your Garden

by Jan Kowalczewski Whitner

Teaches readers how to incorporate stone into many garden features including paths, steps, walls, ponds, and rock gardens. Features 20 basic designs.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 1992

Reviews

[Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth reading for the design philosophies laid out in each chapter, though it’s easy to skim the detailed instructions given for the various projects. Some things can be learned via reading, but when it comes to doing the construction, well, there’s no educational replacement for actually handling stone and making mistakes.

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent "how-to" book.

Includes interesting history of Asian and Western traditions.

Features a good chapter on creating hypertufa troughs.

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book. I enjoyed the brief history of Chinese and Japanese Gardens.

[Candy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I needed to rebuild my dry river after moving rain barrels, and wondered it this book would help with that.