Effective communication between the public garden administrator and the garden designer is an essential part of the design process. In working with the designer, the garden administrator must review proposed solutions and ultimately accept, reject or modify them. Part of that review requires an understanding of some of the basic design principals. Written by Rodney D. Robinson, 1990
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