The Complete Garden

A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

About the Book

1921Published
Albert D. TaylorAuthor
156Chapters
337Pages on this site

Albert D. Taylor was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and taught landscape architecture at Ohio State. The Complete Garden, written with Gordon D. Cooper, is a designer's book: it treats planting as composition.

Its most useful pages are its lists — plants grouped by use, by situation, by season and by region, keyed to the text so a reader can work from a problem to a plant.

This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR, reconciled page by page, with the original plates.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1921 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

Rights & ReuseThe complete text of The Complete Garden (1921) is in the public domain in the United States — like all works published before 1928 — and is free to read, download, quote, teach from, and reuse. This digital edition (its transcription, restored images, and site design) is © 2026 PhotoOpAI, and any editorial commentary we add is clearly marked as ours; the underlying public-domain text carries no such restriction.