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The Inward Garden (498 readers)

Contributed by amazon 03.07 2007 on 09:55:56 Topic: Other / Books

Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning | Julie Moir Messervy has written a classic garden book. Deeply literate and beautifully written, The Inward Garden gives the reader a process for designing ones dream garden. Based on garden archtypes: the sea, the cave, the harbor, the promitory, the island, the mountain, and the sky, this book provides a structure for imagining and designing the garden of ones desires. It is illustrated with outstanding garden photographs by the celebrated national geogr ...

Designing the New Kitchen Garden (714 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.04 2007 on 10:38:51 Topic: Other / Books

Most gardeners know how rewarding it is to harvest ripe, sun-warmed tomatoes or pungent herbs straight from the garden. But those pleasures can be multiplied a hundredfold by creating a garden that is not only productive, but also a beautiful, well-integrated part of the home landscape. ...

Designing and Renovating Larger Gardens (539 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.07 2007 on 22:10:43 Topic: Other / Books

Award-winning landscape designer Douglas Coltart offers practical instructions for designing and renovating spacious gardens, with an eye towards issues unique to those working with at least a third of an acre of land. This book will enable gardeners to make a range of positive changes, such as anchoring the garden into the surrounding landscape, making the most of arrival space, creating focal points, working with scale and proportion, and cultivating a sense of spatial unity. ...

Designing California Native Gardens (583 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.05 2007 on 10:10:38 Topic: Other / Books

The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens | Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of Californias native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities--bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, ripari ...

Plant Selector Program (1248 readers)

Contributed by amazon 27.02 2007 on 17:40:40 Topic: Other / Software, DVD

Your Personal Garden Designer! The Plant Selector Interactive software is a CD for self installation with Windows 95 or higher. It gives you all the information you need to landscape or garden like a professional. ...

Subtropical and Dry Climate Plants (901 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 19:03:54 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Definitive Practical Guide | Climate change, the need to conserve water, the desire for more exotic and dramatic plants-all of these are prompting gardeners to seek out interesting new plants that thrive in subtropical or dry climates and microclimates. This book offers expert guidance and sensible advice on a wide range of plants-native to California, Florida, Australasia, South America, South Africa, Turkey, and the Mediterranean region-that can be successfully cultivated in many regions o ...

How to Create a Wildlife Garden (274 readers)

Contributed by amazon 29.01 2008 on 13:19:54 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Complete instructions for designing and planting wildlife habitats, with over 40 practical projects, a directory of 70 wildlife species and 800 photographs | Most gardeners view themselves as nature lovers, with one of the most enjoyable aspects of creating and maintaining a garden lying in the feeling of closeness to nature. It often comes as a surprise to many, however, that their garden is an essential home. ...

Designing with Plants (550 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:37:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

When your new gardening bible comes with chapters entitled Birth, Life, and Death, you know youre in trouble. But be brave, turn to those chapters, and in some very practical little essays on planting, youll uncover the very down-to-earth principle from which Piet Oudolfs radical reinvention of gardening is based: plants die. In the traditional mixed border, shrubs, climbers, perennials, bulbs, and annuals defy mortality; when one plant passes its best, theres always another in the wings, waitin ...

Professional Planting Design (805 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:07:23 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Professional Planting Design covers the basics as well as the advanced concepts of planting design including: selecting plant characteristics, types of mixed bed plantings, structuring and composing mixed beds, creating mixed palettes for seasonal variation, designing in elevation and plan view, and choosing plants. Youll find coverage of design, landscape architecture, and horticulture interwoven throughout the guide, along with detailed steps f ...

Designing with Succulents (865 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:29:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Succulent plants offer dazzling possibilities for garden design and require only minimal maintenance to remain lush and alluring year round. Featuring the work of more than 50 professional garden designers and creative homeowners, this complete design compendium is as practical as it is inspirational. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, it gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 9 ...

Building & Maintaining Docks (482 readers)

Contributed by amazon 02.10 2007 on 09:35:55 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

How to Design, Build, Install & Care for Residential Docks | Millions of homes are situated along the shores of rivers, lakes and other bodies of water, and a large number of these have (or very much need) a dock. Some docks serve as boat landings, others as fishing piers, still others as platforms for recreational swimming and sunning, and some as places for relaxed entertaining decks over water. Building & Maintaining Docks is a guide book for planning, designing, building, and maintai ...

Success with Shade-Loving Plants (456 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.11 2007 on 10:41:26 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Celebrate the low-light areas of the garden; the trick is knowing which plants to choose, and then placing them properly for best success. Written by a renowned horticulturist and former gardener at London’s Buckingham Palace, this field guide continues the well-received Success with gardening series, and covers selecting, buying, and placing shade-tolerant plants. ...

Landscaping with Native Plants of Wisconsin (539 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:54:51 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Aimed at beginners and veteran gardeners alike, this book is designed to help Wisconsin gardeners find, plant, and maintain the best native species for their specific sites, however modest or lavish. Gardening with native plants is an ever-more popular practice—and for good reason. Naturally suited to a region’s climate and soil, native plants tend to thrive, and to reflect a true “fit” with the environment. ...

New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build (2084 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.09 2006 on 11:35:01 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

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. ...

Walks, Walls & Patios: Plan, Design & Build (852 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:01:57 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

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. ...

Consider the Leaf (643 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:30:43 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Filled with plant suggestions and hints for successfully incorporating foliage into your garden, this book explains basic leaf shapes and tonal palettes, and how to pleasingly balance them in your garden. ...

Dream Plants for the Natural Garden (746 readers)

Contributed by amazon 08.04 2007 on 09:46:41 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Timber Press has previously published two critically acclaimed and bestselling books by Piet Oudolf, the influential Dutch landscape designer: Gardening with Grasses (with Michael King) and Designing with Plants (with Noël Kingsbury). This new collaboration with fellow Dutch plantsman Henk Gerritsen deals with a selection of some 1200 plants most suitable for Oudolfs New Wave naturalism, which emphasizes the importance of plant structures in providing all-season interest. ...

John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects (314 readers)

Contributed by amazon 07.02 2008 on 12:36:30 Topic: Information / About us Match on Article's text

Designing, Planting, and Building the Yard of Your Dreams One Weekend at a Time | The second in a series of John Deere books published by Quayside, John Deere 52 Backyard Landscaping Projects is the perfect companion and follow-up to John Deere Landscaping and Lawn Care. Once homeowners have a handle on what they need to do to their yard and when the need to do it in order to keep their lawn and landscape green and healthy, they will want to learn how to improve upon it. ...

The Education Of A Gardener (697 readers)

Contributed by amazon 28.10 2007 on 08:03:43 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intelligence, and practical know-how. They are not only essential reading for today’s gardeners, but a master’s compelling reflection on the deep sources and informing principles of his art. ...

Environments for Outdoor Play (504 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.07 2007 on 10:57:00 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A Practical Guide to Making Space for Children | Exciting spaces to play are vital if we are to provide children with challenging, flexible, inclusive and stimulating opportunities to learn, develop and have fun together. ...