cover image On Time and on Budget

On Time and on Budget

John Rusk. Doubleday Books, $21 (298pp) ISBN 978-0-385-47501-3

Once you've redone the house itself, Quick & Easy Garden Design Projects can help you perk up the immediate surroundings. Pergolas, ponds, statuary, foliage and outdoor furnishings are among the elements of outdoor design given attention, along with container gardens and bedding plants, by Faith and Geoffrey Whiten in this solid, introductory volume. (BBC/Parkwest, $24.95 160p ISBN 0-563-36714-8; June)