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We consider Nature to be the ultimate designer and will feature it’s fantastic creations as well.
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Non-professional visitors/gardeners can use our website to be informed, entertained and inspired to create beautiful landscapes with or without professional assistance.
Gateways To Your Garden is a garden design book and quick landscape reference source, as well as a font of inspiration to anyone wanting to design the garden of their dreams.
This is not a “How To” publication as much as a “What To” book. The reader, whether they are a landscape design professional or a property owner wishing to create their own gardens are advised to use the ideas and suggestions within to start the design process and then go on to finish it with appropriate detailed studies of their ultimate selections.
This beautiful book is full of spectacular pictures, brief and interesting design suggestions for your garden and most importantly, explanations for all those landscape design principals and terms you were never sure of.
If you could have only one garden design book, this is the essential one, but we hope you won’t stop at just our book.
There are uncountable excellent ones available.
Dan Ford and his partner Paul Paulus founded a Landscape Architectural and contracting firm in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, in the Bahamas. In 1969 they sold the company in the Bahamas and took up residency in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and formed a new company, The Rain Forest, Inc. to create landscape designs and installations for upscale residential gardens.
In 1970 they were invited by the developers of John’s Island in Vero Beach, Florida to join them in their creation of what would become one of the most prestigious golf course/residential communities in the state.
Dan’s designs have been featured in Southern Living, Southern Accents and Florida Architecture among many other design publications.
He became convinced that there is a great need for a book that would guide a homeowner through the process of working with a landscape design professional and alternately assist professionals in working with clients. That led to the creation of Gateways To Your Garden. He offers this garden design book as a means to interest, inform and inspire.