One can literally count the number of modern residential garden design books on one hand. Next month per the publisher's site (or September per Amazon) there’ll be another, from Alejandro Bahamón no less. Small Private Gardens will feature “fresh and new ideas from the brightest and most influential garden designers. Increasing density in our cities has made it very difficult to find space for gardens. This compilation gathers the best examples of the way garden designers use strategic solutions to optimize space.”. Hardcover, 136 pages, 200 color photographs, text in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian, $15.72 at Amazon.

+ Small Private Gardens at Amazon