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San Francisco-based landscape designer Daniel Nolan has made relaxed and inviting outdoor spaces full of lush planting and minimal hardscaping his signature. His beautiful coffee table book, Dry Gardens: High Style for Low Water Gardens, is published by Rizzoli.

I think it’s the palette, the shapes of the plants and that there is always seating involved, but the first thing I think when I look at your work is that these

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