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Design Ideas for Home Landscaping (295 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.01 2008 on 10:04:20 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Design Ideas for Home Landscaping offers inspiring ideas for achieving a stunning effect with your landscape. Using the information on plant design, expert gardening and planting advice, and the most resilient vegetation for your region, you can maintain a beautiful outdoor haven with this accessible guide for the professional landscape designer and the do-it-yourself homeowner alike. With over 350 magnificent color photographs and illustrations, Design Ideas for Home Landscaping is an essential ...

Design Ideas for Decks & Patios (340 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.03 2008 on 13:29:57 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Design Ideas for Decks and Patios presents ideas, styles, and the latest trends designed to cater to the outdoor-living needs and desires of todays homeowners.Living it up stylishly in todays casual open-air rooms calls for serious design consideration.In this photo-driven book, readers will find lots of examples of floating and single- and multi-level decks and attached structures (gazebos, pergolas, built-ins, stairs and railing) and soft-set as well as mortar-based patios. ...

Walks, Walls & Patios: Plan, Design & Build (774 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:01:57 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Designing the outside of the home adds to curb -side appeal, creates ambience, and increases the value of the home. Walks, Walls & Patios provides the homeowner with all the information needed to integrate popular hardscape designs into the overall home landscape. ...

From Concept to Form in Landscape Design (864 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.10 2007 on 10:13:38 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

One of the most difficult tasks for a designer is to translate concepts into specific and detailed organizations of space. From Concept to Form in Landscape Design, Second Edition provides vital, functional techniques that make the transformation easier and more effective. This perceptive resource examines both traditional and nontraditional methods of landscape design, providing the conceptual and philosophical foundations for ideas. ...

Pools DesignSource (407 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.07 2007 on 11:55:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

This volume in the DesingSource series illustrates a number of inspiring pools created by architects, designers, and pool owners from around the world. ...

New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build (2036 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.09 2006 on 11:35:01 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The perfect companion to the Better Homes and Gardens New Complete Guide to Gardening. Illustrated easy-to-follow instructions for planning, designing, and building typical landscape projects. ...

Deck & Patio Design Guide (379 readers)

Contributed by amazon 22.03 2008 on 17:42:11 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Whether its poolside fun or outdoor entertaining, Deck and Patio Design Guide by Meredith Books, can help you create an outdoor venue that works for your lifestyle. Including over 200 photos filled with great ideas, this book will provide information on material choices, stylish furnishings and more. Plus, youll even learn some tips on the process of hiring contractors, gathering bids and developing a budget. ...

Climbers and Wall Plants (543 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.05 2007 on 10:51:32 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Horticulture Gardeners Guides | Part of the successful Horticulture Gardeners Guide series, Climbers covers all aspects of the cultivation, training and care of climbing plants of many kinds including clematis, various ivies, and more. This handy guide includes ideas for mixing and matching plants to provide year round color and interest. Organized by season, situation, soil type and color, the book makes it easy to find information in a variety of ways. Special panels throughout the book focus ...

Dream Gardens (535 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.07 2007 on 10:13:37 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

100 Inspirational Gardens | The perfect companion to Merrells bestselling Dream Homes, Dream Gardens is a beautifully designed sourcebook of 100 modern and contemporary gardens of all styles in all parts of the world. It presents an exciting array of stunning locations and garden-design ideas, from small, sophisticated, minimalist city gardens to large, richly planted gardens in breathtaking rural locations. ...

Master Landscape Pro™ (530 readers)

Contributed by punch 13.10 2007 on 10:54:25 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's text

Punch! Master Landscape Pro and Home Design software suite includes a more robust interface for editing, specifying precise dimensions, displaying options, and more. New enhancements for 3D photo-realistic lighting, organization of custom objects, custom plants, and other program features add more flexibility and enjoyment to the garden and landscape design experience. ...

Master Landscape and Home Design™ (411 readers)

Contributed by punch 12.10 2007 on 21:53:29 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's text

Punch! Master Landscape and Home Design™ software package delivers 9 powerful garden and landscape design software tools, patent-pending PhotoView™ and our sortable PlantFinder™ database with over 2,000 landscape plants - easily locate what you want, using PlatFinder™ - in one easy-to-use interface! ...

Garden Design (556 readers)

Contributed by amazon 06.08 2007 on 10:19:39 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A practical guide to constructing and transforming your garden, with ideas and advice on flooring, surfaces, construction, furniture, ornamental features and decorative features shown in over 700 beautiful color photographs. ...

Hidcote: The Garden and Lawrence Johnston (288 readers)

Contributed by amazon 25.11 2007 on 11:56:07 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Often described as the most beautiful garden in England, Hidcote is a jewel in Englands horticultural history. The gardens creator, Lawrence Johnston, was inspired by many of the Arts and Crafts design ideas at the turn of the 20th century. From 1907 this intriguing American-born plant hunter transformed 10 acres of Gloucestershire hillside into one of the worlds most influential gardens, a complex mixture of hedged rooms and vistas, lavish planting, and simpler, informal areas. ...

Outside the Not So Big House (426 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:13:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Creating the Landscape of Home | In this groundbreaking book, noted landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy and bestselling author Sarah Susanka reveal how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony. After all, who doesnt yearn for a landscape that is as well designed as the interior of their home? In Outside the Not So Big House , Julie and Sarah teach you everything you need to know about the design concepts essential to extending your home beyond its four walls. ...

Stone Landscaping (375 readers)

Contributed by amazon 17.03 2008 on 11:05:13 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Add beauty to your landscape with one of natures most enduring elements - stone. Whether its a cobblestone patio or a fieldstone path, Ideas and How-To: Stone Landscaping by Meredith Books will show you how to create popular stone objects that accentuate your home. With detailed illustrations and savvy design tips, this book will give you all the information you need to complete your stone projects. ...

Outdoor Living Spaces (420 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.07 2007 on 08:47:22 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Courtyards, Patios and Decks | From large-scale courtyards to smaller outdoor areas, this new volume is packed w/innovative design ideas. Recognizing the growing trend towards healthy, outdoor living, this book features a beautiful array of the latest courtyard spaces by world-renowned architects. ...

Down to Earth With Helen Dillon (485 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.12 2007 on 12:02:13 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

In this book Helen Dillon encapsulates, in her inimitable witty and accessible style, her lifetime of gardening know-how, deep love of plants and assured sense of design. Here is illumination for every gardener—from the beginner wondering why nothing will grow in the garden of the new house to the sophisticate aiming at exquisitely subtle effects. Thoughtful ideas on garden style are underpinned by practical advice on looking after plants and careful instructions on the basics of digging, planti ...

Landscaping With Ornamental Grasses Sunset book (890 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.03 2007 on 20:49:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Sunset is the first to offer Landscaping with Ornamental Grasses, a complete design and reference book that explores the history of grasses in their natural settings, and describes how to integrate them in a variety of climatic situations shady woodland to desert, Asian-style gardens to naturalistic landscapes, family-friendly yards to small patios. ...

The Italian Garden (434 readers)

Contributed by amazon 16.09 2007 on 05:11:50 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Art, Design and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture) | Italian Renaissance gardens were the admiration of Europe and North America. They revived the classical art of garden making, as well as drawing on medieval literary traditions; but they also developed their own forms and styles, even when they began to borrow back ideas of landscape gardening from England in the late eighteenth century. But until the late nineteenth century Italy was a collection of different states, e ...

The Well-Designed Mixed Garden (802 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.04 2007 on 10:35:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs | 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 Tracy DiSabato-Aust provides not only inspiration but also scrupulously organiz ...