"Outside the Not So Big House" offers a unified source of design advice about making the indoors and outdoors work together. Through the unique pairing of bestselling author and residential architect Sarah Susanka and landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy, two highly qualified experts teach us how to think in a new way ...
This companion book to the much-beloved "Western Garden Book" is packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, and addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges and solutions for the West.
The reader doesn't need to know a rose bush from a tulip bulb in order to create a pleasing and functional garden. This helpful volume provides basic information about landscape planning and design, as well as choosing materials, planting, maintaining, and even constructing pergolas, decks, fences, and walkways. It also includes information on ...
This textbook provides students with a comprehensive introduction to all types of contemporary residential and commercial landscaping and acquaints them with the skills needed to enter the rapidly growing landscaping business. Basic principles of design, installation and maintenance are developed with emphasis on the philosophy of landscape ...
For courses in Landscape Design. This text was written for students who are beginning their design careers, as well as those currently practicing residential design. This text provides students with the quality fundamentals of residential site design-exploring functional and artistic elements, with a focus on appreciation of quality and updated ...
The right kind of stone and how you incorporate it in your landscape and garden can make all the difference. Stone, a broad term that includes pavers, fieldstones, bricks, rocks and boulders, and stone veneer, can be used to create a distinct yet practical component to any yard. And with the variety of natural and manufactured stone products ...
Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions. ...
Gardening guru P. Allen Smith comes from a long line of English gardeners. In his first book, he sets out to help amateur gardeners make the outdoors an extension of indoors by creating homey, livable garden spaces. His 12 principles of design are illustrated with helpful photos and supplemented with a variety of how-to projects.
- Photo galleries feature updated approaches to enhance gardens with stone, from traditional to contemporary - Detailed step-by-step instructions for projects including paths, walls, and water features - Helpful lists identify appropriate plants for specific situations, such as when creating gravel or stepping-stone paths - "Trade Secrets" and ...
Whether youre starting from the ground up or rethinking your existing outdoor living areas, youll find plenty of inspiration in Big Book of Garden Designs. With over 120 garden plans designed to fit every imaginable landscape situation, this new volume guides you through the issues that perplex anyone planning a garden. Such as, which plants are ...
Every gardener loves perennials. Buy them and plant them, and most will flourish and even expand year after year. But in addition to reliability, perennials offer gardeners a wonderful opportunity to make a stunning visual statement in their home landscapes - if you know how to combine and arrange them. In THE PERENNIAL GARDENER'S DEISGN PRIMER, ...
When it first hit the shelves in 1998, it took the South by storm. The 2004 edition is bigger, brighter, and bolder than ever, with more luscious photography, updated plant listings, and a special focus on native and heritage plants.
"The Well-Designed Mixed Garden" is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants of all kinds (hence the 'mixed garden' of the title), it reflects decades of professional experience and artistic innovation. As with her bestselling book "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden", master designer and plantswoman ...
Illustrated with 200 superb color photographs, this volume provides inspiration and guidance to the subtropical gardener and creates a desperate desire to move southward for the rest of us. Chapters cover palms, architectural plants, bamboos, tree ferns, flowering trees, climbers, shrubs, foliage pl
This gardening guide looks at the possibilities of using grass for decorative effect, not just in lawns and meadows, but also in borders, as background shrubs to enhance other plants and as a means of creating dramatic contrasts. The versatility of grass as a foliage plant is increasingly being realized with the popularity of naturalistic planting ...
This all-inclusive volume explores landscaping solutions and provides easy-to-follow guidelines for designing plant beds and terraces, private steps and paths, serene seating areas, and soothing waterfalls on slopes of varying degrees. A guide to planting covers plant selection and installation, and includes advice on erosion control, and plants ...
This beautifully illustrated book provides an inspirational and practical introduction to the traditions of Japanese Zen gardens, using natural materials such as wood, bamboo, rocks and pebbles. Emphasizing the value of shape in trees and shrubs with the subtlety of colour through the varied greens of foliage and moss, "Serene Gardens" is the only ...
Stonework can be a very complex and daunting project to undertake, but this new title guides readers through the process with ease. Within its covers, the art of using stone in the garden for paths, patios, walls, water gardens and rock gardens is explained in easy-to-understand language. A design gallery features full-color photos of creative ...
"How to Build Ponds and Waterfalls and Much More"...was written with the consumer in mind: It's a show and tell presentation of everything needed to build spectacular water gardens. Jeffrey Reid proves that knowing the correct steps and using the right product for the job practically guarantees success. The methods shown in these chapters are ...
Made Wijaya, landscape designer to such high-profile gardens as those of rock icon David Bowie and the United States Ambassador in Jakarta, shares his brilliant garden designs and offers advice for both novice gardeners and professionals on creating similar results in their own backyards. Exploring Wijaya's many gardens, including water gardens, ...
This comprehensive, all-organic encyclopedia provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions and a wealth of information on gardening techniques for both ornamental and food gardeners--advanced and beginner alike. It is jam-packed with practical "how-to" information and step-by-step instructions. The essential reference for all gardeners.
This guide sets out Rosemary Verey's principles of gardening in an accessible way, by taking the reader on a personal tour of her own garden` at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire. A culmination of her 30 years of experience as a gardener and garden designer, it attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world every year. The book invites the ...
Loaded with sound, expert advice, Tim Matson's second book on ponds explains how to build a pond for very little money, then how to get the fullest enjoyment possible from your "cloud in the earth". Among the helpful topics covered are plants to attract wildlife, pumps, liners for goldfish, algae and crawfish, and much more. Matson's first book on ...
First published in 1982, Barbara Damrosch's THEME GARDENS has now been revised and updated. This beautifully photographed book includes fresh new ideas for garden design, along with practical advice on creating a Shakespeare garden, an herb garden, a butterfly garden, a Zen garden, and many more.
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