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 | Piet Oudolfs gardens excite the senses and stir emotion with an approach to gardening that emphasizes form, texture, light, movement, and color. Designing with Plants is both inspirational and instructive-an informative and visually breathtaking study that shows readers how to create the same effects in their gardens. This paperback reprint includes four main parts. Planting Palettes shows the range of plant choice available in form, texture, and color. Designing Schemes shows how to combine the ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
 Price: 250.00 $ |  | Piet Oudolfs gardens excite the senses and stir the emotions. Representing a giant step forward from the conventional colour-themed border, this new approach to gardening gives just as much emphasis to form, texture, light and movement as it does to colour. Individual plants are used as harmonious elements in luxuriant and atmospheric plantings. Written in collaboration with Noel Kingsbury, Designing with Plants is an informative and visually breathtaking study of Piet Oudolfs planting theory an ...
Amazon / Octopus Publishing Group / Book
Price: 194.79 $ |  | Kindred Spirits is the beautiful record of this botanical correspondence, and the friendship that developed between the two. They came from very different backgrounds but were drawn together by their love of plants and nature. ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 135.38 $ |  | With the growing recognition that a wisely and sensitively planted garden has a lot to offer to wildlife and the food web, more and more people are looking for ways to make their gardens environmentally friendly. However, gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. In Natural Gardening in Small Spaces , renowned plantsman Noël Kingsbury refutes that presumption, showing how even in a small garden you can crea ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 121.02 $ |  | A leading figure in the New Perennial planting movement, garden designer Piet Oudolf emphasizes plant structure as the most important aspect of a successful garden. Form and texture are valued as much as color, and perennials--prized for their beauty throughout a natural life cycle--are used almost exclusively. Oudolf challenges conventional approaches to gardening that rely on short-lived bursts of color and constant maintenance and shows the delights of working with versatile, expressive peren ...
Amazon / The Monacelli Press / Book
Price: 39.99 $ |  | In a world dominated more and more by urban development, nature is increasingly seen as an inspiration for gardeners. Sustainability and biodiversity, currently high on the worlds agenda, are important aspects of natural-style gardening. In this beautiful new book, gardening expert Noel Kingsbury considers a variety of approaches to making gardens that celebrate nature. He discusses what is meant by the natural look, gives guidance on how to achieve it, and outlines the ideas and problems involv ...
Amazon / Merrell / Book
Price: 31.90 $ |  | Home gardeners with a keen interest in design, as well as professional landscape designers, will find invaluable advice in this new approach. The book focuses on the general principles behind creating successful and beautiful plant combinations in both time and space — working with perennials in the context of trees, shrubs, and the surrounding landscape. The authors suggest looking across, into, and through the landscape. They ask the reader to consider the rhythms and connections in their desi ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 29.95 $ |  | This book advocates a new way of using perennials that works with – rather than against - nature. Noël Kingsbury explores planting schemes designed to suit the existing condition of your garden. If your soil is poor and fast draining, choose tough hardy cultivars that will thrive in these conditions. Try an informal planting style that echoes nature: a structure thats loose rather than tight, where perennials are blended together rather than grouped in a rigid manner. These environmentally frien ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 29.93 $ |  | Gathering the design principles and tricks of the worlds greatest garden makers, this illustrated guide provides expert advice in all aspects of the design process. By examining the way designers work, this book helps the reader decide on a garden layout and style, relate the garden to the landscape, choose materials for surfaces and boundaries, incorporate living spaces and decorative features, and map out planting schemes. With these tricks of the trade—from experts such as John Brookes, Isabe ...
Amazon / Blume / Book
Price: 27.52 $ |  | With the growing recognition that a wisely and sensitively planted garden has a lot to offer to wildlife and the food web, more and more people are looking for ways to make their gardens environmentally friendly. However, gardeners have tended to assume that they need a lot of space to create habitats for wildlife and to evoke wild and natural places. In Natural Gardening in Small Spaces, renowned plantsman Noël Kingsbury refutes that presumption, showing how even in a small garden you can creat ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
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