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    Now Sold Out and Out of Print. A CD of the plant photographs in searchable database can be ordered here. The inspiration for the Summer-Dry book in the PhotoBotanic Learning Center, this beautiful 320-page book features more than 650 native Californian and Mediterranean plants photographed in garden settings. It showcases landscaping in summer-dry climates such as the West Coast of California and other Mediterranean regions of the world. If we are to promote sustainable garden practices in California and other summer-dry climates we need to change the aesthetic of what we expect to see in a garden photograph to give gardeners a new way of considering beauty in gardens.
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    Now Sold Out and Out of Print. Used copies may be available Amazon. Collector's book - $500, autographed copies by John Greenlee and Saxon Holt. The American Meadow Garden; Published by Timber Press with John Greenlee as my writer. OK, OK most folks think I was John’s photographer, but if you are reading this you KNOW photographers get equal billing. Whoever’s book it is, I think we made a good team.  The book won awards from The Garden Writers Association and The American Horticultural Society.  It begins with a survey of natural meadows around the United States, showing the magnificent variety of meadows and grass ecologies that form the basis of any garden meadow. The book then profiles garden meadows in regions across the country from Chicago, St Louis, Albuquerque and Los Angeles and includes an encyclopedia of grasses.  Read more on the Amazon order page.  
  • Good Garden Photography - Book 1 of the  4 part e-book series: The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop. Awarded the Gold as Best Book Overall by Garden Writers Association for overall excellence in writing, photography, and design for garden book published in 2014. Also available as lessons with comments to readers in The Garden Photography Workshop section of Living Books Individual lessons available as iBooks.  
  • Lesson 1

    Good Garden Photography series

    The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops


    "We begin Composition 101 with one basic rule: fill the frame. Remember this primary concept every time you take a picture."
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  • Lesson 2

    Good Garden Photography series

    The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops


    "Every technique assumes that you will use the whole frame as we learned in Lesson 1. Now, how do we arrange the elements into a balanced composition?" ibook google_play

    $1.99

  • Lesson 3

    Good Garden Photography series

    The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops


    "Learning how to read the quality of light is the single most important skill in good garden photography. Even a good composition will fail if the light is bad."
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  • Lesson 4

    Good Garden Photography series

    The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops


    "So far, in these lessons on garden photography, we have explored the rudiments of composition and light in making good garden photos. In this lesson, we step back and begin to analyze why we take pictures"
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    $1.99

  • Lesson 5

    Good Garden Photography series

    The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops


    "This lesson in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop covers a wide range of ideas to help you create your own style, to provoke and inspire your viewers."
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    $1.99

  • Lesson 6

    Good Garden Photography series

    The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops


    "A good garden photograph is more than a pleasing composition. It should communicate something of the photographer’s appreciation of the garden…"
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    $1.99

  • Grasses

    $19.95

    Grasses:  Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design

    "GRASSES - a beautiful and practical guide to raising ornamental grasses in one's garden. Filled cover to cover with excellent color photographs by life-long gardener and gardening photographer Saxon Holt of aesthetic and splendid grasses, the profusely illustrated text presents the reader with a wide choice of colored grasses to best accentuate the beauty of one's garden and how to best select choice plants for wet, dry, hot, or shady sites. Highly recommended for personal and professional gardening, horticultural and landscaping reference collections, even non-gardeners will appreciate the dazzling, coffee-table book quality photography of this singularly elegant yet practical guide." USA Shipping Only
  • Hardy Succulents - Tough Plants for every Climate

    From agaves to ice plants, and from sedums to sempervivums, hardy succulent plants bring beauty, versatility, and intrigue to perennial gardens in every hardiness zone. No longer relegated to desert climates, succulents offer extraordinary color, texture, durability, and ease of care. It's no wonder succulents are some of the hottest plants to capture the attention of enthusiastic growers in all zones. USA Shipping Only
  • Think Like A Camera - Book 2 of the 4 part PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop e-books. Individual lessons available as iBooks.  
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