Bursting with beautiful and inspiring gardens, Linda O’Keeffe’s Inside Outside easily delivers on it’s promise on being a sourcebook. Highlighting the way the garden mirrors the design put into interior design, each garden featured speaks to a particular element within an overarching concept such as symmetry within space.

Depending on your own taste, each of the gardens will appeal more or less but each has it’s purpose and I found the accompanying text insightful and informative. Most of the designs are far too elaborate to be implemented in my own garden. This didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the book as the principles most certainly can be applied!

If you are looking to understand better the structure behind gorgeous gardens and be inspired by the innovations of other gardeners, this book is for you! It’s a five out of five on the en-JOY-meant scale!

Beautifully presented and photographed book of very large, very green garden, mainly in American and some in England. This is a great coffee table book to picked up and gain inspiration from for your garden - the gardens are amazing, as are the interiors of some of the houses as they flow into the outdoor space.
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What a stunning book. Full page photographs of dreamy, big-scale, aspirational gardens.
Just as interior designers plan the details, textures and contrasts of rooms, so garden designers do, too. This collection shows examples of styles which
I picked this up for a browse, and found myself absorbed in the introduction. Not just a love of gardens is described here, but a love of life - a love of resting, watching, socialising, eating, of privacy and of openness. A love of the scents, colours and changes that an 'outdoor room' brings.
I came for the photos, stayed for the text, and found inspiration that will make me refer to this again and again.

This landscaping picture book includes a lot of practical suggests as it explores structure and beauty through text and pictures.

There are enough photos to inspire you and enough white space for notes - I recommend circling what catches your eye and making it a workbook, beyond the coffee table.

Recommended.

A good book with many ideas of creating an outdoor space. I was looking for a more practical ideas though, instead of a more modern artistic style. Not really my type, but if it is yours you will like this book. Would recommend as a coffee table book.

I am an avid gardener and our family loves to spend time in various parts of our yard, so I was hoping to find some beautiful and creative inspiration for creating "garden rooms" on our property. While this book is packed with photos, it didn't really offer anything at all that I'd want to use in my own gardens.

It was only after I read the book that I saw that the author used to be the editor of Metropolitan Home magazine, which explains the look of the gardens featured here. I need a book more designed for a reader of Messy Small Town Home with Kids, Vegetable Gardens and a Dog Magazine. :)

This will be a good book for those who are looking to design garden areas in a traditional formal look, especially very wealthy people. The vast majority of the garden areas feature very structured, manicured plants -- think hedges trimmed in severe straight shapes, topiaries around pristine pools, lots of lawns with perfectly behaved bushes, stuff like that. There is very little color, no use of garden elements like fruits or vegetables, and nothing for artsy, creative, more organic types like myself. I also didn't see any garden designs that seemed to be designed to accommodate children or fun.

If you are looking for inspiration for your estate and you tend towards sleek, modern designs that a full time landscaper will probably need to maintain for you, this will serve as great inspiration.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.