James van Sweden has been a leader in landscape architecture for more than 35 years.

In partnership with Wolfgang Oehme, their firm — Oehme van Sweden & Associates — designed hundreds of public and private gardens, revolutionizing their look with the New American Garden style. In a series of interviews, van Sweden, a prodigious lecturer and author of numerous books on the elements and design of gardens, shares his philosophy about an enduring design legacy.

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