Professional garden designer Gordon Hayward provides the tools to help homeowners tackle new garden designs and fix old ones with the confidence and know-how to succeed. He demonstrates the guiding principles behind his own designs: taking clues from the style, materials and proportions of existing features, particularly the house, but also ...
Like a good path, this book leads you along an approachable and stimulating route to designing and structuring your own landscape, no matter where your garden or on what scale.
Gardens are filled with structures: gazebos and pergolas, pools and children's playspaces, sheds, fences and arbors. These pose a unique challenge to planning a landscape that successfully navigates and envelopes the structures. Landscape design expert, Gordon Hayward, presents situations in which garden structures have successfully been ...
Filled with instructive (and beautiful) photographs and detailed drawings, this handy volume provides instruction for using stone in the garden, including choosing stone, where to put a wall, and the art of placing a simple boulder.
In "Art and the Gardener", Gordon Hayward's tenth book on garden design, he makes a radical departure from his earlier approaches in order to explore elements of visual language across two artistic disciplines - fine painting and garden design - in hopes that the remarkable crosscurrents will help reveal how to design or simply appreciate your ...
For twenty-five years, the Haywards, expert horticultural consultants and authors of many books and articles, have been tending their garden in Vermont. Here, using it as an example, they show gardeners how to keep any garden looking its best, through the seasons and through the years. Beautiful photographs by Richard Brown illustrate how and what ...
Renowned garden designer Gordon Hayward's newest book focuses on one major principle: creating front yard gardens that will inspire and invite, transforming neighbourhoods and encouraging people to create compelling spaces in which to relax, visit with neighbours, and enjoy a natural space. Hayward offers a step-by-step approach that starts by ...
Garden and landscape designer Gordon Hayward and his wife, Mary, take the measure of their own garden-in process for more than twenty years-and tell readers how to make their gardens welcoming and personal, truly a reflection of their needs and dreams. As the Haywards point out, "successful gardens grow naturally out of their owners; great garden ...
This exciting new book introduces young readers to chemistry and science activities through a wide variety of interesting, safe, educational and fun experiments using readily available household products.
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