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 | Unsuspected by passers-by, the rooftops of Paris are rich in gardens that float between the elegant streets and the sky. From up here fortunate Parisiennes cultivate elegant gardens and enjoy spectacular views of landmarks of their city-some can even dive into a pool. Paris Roof Terraces opens the reader to an unexpected facet of Paris living. The owners of these green havens-like top designer Andrée Putman and Siki, the celebrity jeweler-reveal their rooftop garden design secrets and experience ...
Amazon / Flammarion / Book
 Price: 304.96 $ |  | Bonsai pays tribute to the artistry and design behind these fascinating miniature trees. The text compares the ancient art of bonsai to the traditional arts and focuses on the specific design elements of the bonsai--the roots, trunk, branches, foliage, and container--and discusses how bonsai artists manipulate these elements for a specific effect. Unlike the traditional arts, bonsai requires working with material that is alive and ever-changing, presenting unique challenges and rewards. Featured ...
Amazon / Rizzoli / Book
Price: 118.76 $ |  | This third volume in a popular series highlights the special beauty and enduring appeal of Arts and Crafts bungalow gardens. Matching Paul Duchscherers authoritative text with striking photographs by Douglas Keister--the team that made The Bungalow and Inside the Bungalow so successful-- Outside the Bungalow will captivate the ever-growing number of Arts and Crafts aficionados. In it the garden, with its nature-friendly charm and character, takes the spotlight as an integral part of bungalow liv ...
Amazon / Penguin Studio / Book
Price: 74.42 $ |  | The Arts and Crafts movement laid the foundations for gardening as we know it. This book examines the architectural features and planting trends that defined the style in Britain, America, Europe and Scandinavia and considers the legacy of Arts and Crafts gardening as a profound and sensual philosophy, still relevant to gardeners today. The idea of the garden as an outdoor living room, a seamless extension of the planning and decoration of the house, was an ARts and Crafts invention. Sheltering ...
Amazon / Victoria & Albert Museum / Book
Price: 44.50 $ |  | Moments in Eden features 85 breathtakingly beautiful photographs of gardens and garden scenes from all over the world. Many are famous, such as Versailles, Sissinghurst, Keukenhof, Giverny, and Winterthur. Others are as nameless as a facade of window boxes in Switzerland or a wisteria vine clinging to the worn stones of a Cotswold cottage. All are superb examples of the art of Americas leading landscape photographer. Richard Browns photographs have been compared with those of Eliot Porter. As Th ...
Amazon / Mariner Books / Book
Price: 35.55 $ |  | The Mediterranean climate, with its mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, gave rise to a gardening style that is very much in vogue today. Not only do Mediterranean-style gardens offer gorgeous, fragrant, soothing sanctuaries that are wonderfully easy to maintain, but water-saving planting is environmentally sound and enormously appealing whatever ones region or climatic zone. This lush, seductive volume showcases the distinctive beauty of some 25 gardens in France, Italy, Spain, and Califor ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
Price: 30.27 $ |  | It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornamentals that were introduced first in Chinese gardens. And the development of the modern repeat-flowering roses would not have occurred had the so-called monthly roses not been brought to Europe from China. In spite of the romance and excitement generated by the discoveries of the famous plant hunters in the wilds of China, the Chinese plants ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 26.45 $ |  | Use wisteria as a container specimen, even a bonsai, to control run away growth. It is also beautiful trained over an arbor, or espaliered against a building. The white variety, alba, is especially effective when in bloom, planted next to a pond where its beauty can be doubled by reflection. With constant pruning, wisteria can be trained to a small tree or bonsai-like specimen plant. Wisteria is rampant; it can grow in full sun or heavy shade, in which case it will grow until it reaches a satisf ...
Amazon / Tropical Oasis / Lawn & Patio
Price: 25.95 $ |  | Enjoy it for its sheer beauty or use it for inspiration while creating your own small landscape garden. Japanese gardening is the art of arranging plants, rocks, lanterns, and basins in an open or, as here, an enclosed space. According to the aesthetic principles long prevailing in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, even two rocks arranged in a tiny, enclosed space can be considered a garden. This type of garden is called a tsuboniwa, and Kyoto has long being considered its birthplace and home ...
Amazon / Kodansha USA / Book
Price: 25.31 $ | | | The Mediterranean climate, with its mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, gave rise to a fashionable gardening style. Not only do Mediterranean-style gardens offer gorgeous, fragrant, soothing sanctuaries that are wonderfully easy to maintain, but water-saving planting is environmentally sound and enormously appealing whatever ones region or climatic zone. This volume showcases some 25 gardens in France, Italy, Spain and California that employ drought-tolerant plants such as agaves and other ...
Amazon / Harry N. Abrams / Book
Price: 23.80 $ |  | Nothing about pruning is obvious; in fact, most of it is downright counterintuitive, says expert Cass Turnbull. This second edition of her definitive illustrated guide adds 40 percent new material, with more coverage of different kinds of trees, shrubs, and ground covers and how to prune them for health and aesthetics. The book is organized around the most common types of plants found in Northwest gardens: evergreen and deciduous shrubs; bamboos and tea roses; rhododendrons, camellia and other t ...
Amazon / Sasquatch Books / eBooks
Price: 19.95 $ |  | The Northwest Pruning Guide provides step-by-step instructions for pruning trees, shrubs, and other plants to help them flourish in any garden or lawn. It profiles the most common types of plants found in Northwest gardens, including evergreen and deciduous shrubs, bamboos and tea roses, camellia, hedge plants, wisteria, and trees. Each entry also covers common gardening mistakes, traditional methods, proper positions, tips on the best times to prune, and more. ...
Amazon / Sasquatch Books / Book
Price: 15.74 $ |  | Never Stops Blooming. Double-powder blue flowers arise in late spring, early summer and again in late summer. It is a popular Japanese Wisteria with fragrant, powder-blue flowers in racemes up to 6 1/2 inches long. It blooms heavily and frequently, producing a second, smaller display in late summer. These potted plants are cutting-grown from flowering wood to ensure bloom at an early age. A rapid, vigorous grower to 30 feet, perfect for creating a spectacular show on a pergola or against a wall. ...
Amazon / Hirts: Vines & Groundcovers / Lawn & Patio
Price: 9.99 $ |  | Petrea volublis is commonly called Sandpaper Vine due to the rough texture of the leaves and/or Florida Wisteria or Tropical Wisteria as it is one of the only vines to have the beautiful draping clusters that are similiar to northern Wisterias. It is a vigorous grower and prolific bloomer. Sandpaper Vine is covering with draping racemes in shades of lavender & purple spring & fall. ...
Amazon / Emerald Goddess Gardens / Lawn & Patio
Price: 9.99 $ |
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