Garden Design

Tending Your Garden: A Year-Round Guide to Garden Maintenance

Planting Design Illustrated (537 readers)

Contributed by amazon 05.07 2007 on 14:49:25 Topic: Other / Books

This is one of the most comprehensive books on Planting Design. It fills in the blank in this field and introduces poetry, painting and symbolism into Planting Design. It covers in detail the two major systems in Planting Design: Formal Planting Design and Naturalistic Planting Design. It has numerous line drawings and photos to illustrate the Planting Design concepts and principles. Through in-depth discussions of historical precedents and practical case studies, it uncovers the fundamental des ...

Japanese Garden Design (932 readers)

Contributed by amazon 18.10 2007 on 10:25:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

The creation of a Japanese garden combines respect for nature with adherence to simple principles of aesthetics and structure. In Japanese Garden Design , landscape architect Marc Peter Keane presents the history and development of the classical metaphors that underlie all Japanese gardens. ...

Designing with Succulents (787 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:29:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

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 ...

Master Landscape Pro™ (525 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. ...

Making the Modern Garden (1274 readers)

Contributed by amazon 12.12 2007 on 09:55:07 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

A superlative analysis of contemporary gardens as well as fascinating collection of landscapes around the world, Making the Modern Garden is a definitive study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the process of garden design in a presentation of modern landscapes at all sizes and locations. Among the designers in the book are Fernando Caruncho, Peter Walker, Kat ...

A Pattern Garden (1435 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:56:48 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Essential Elements of Garden Making. A Pattern Garden gives us the tools for creating our own highly satisfying garden spaces. Easton identifies 14 garden patterns that she sees as fundamental to successful design and that will turn any landscape into a memorable and rewarding retreat. This book will help you identify what pleases you, and why, and provide inspiration and direction in the planting and layout of your own garden. Discussions of essential patterns, such as the creation of paths ...

Infinite Spaces (575 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.08 2007 on 08:29:45 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden | Japanese gardens have long been admired for their capacity to improve on nature through impeccable design, detail and composition, properties that elevate them from mere gardens to sacred spaces. Infinite Spaces is a remarkable reflection of the Japanese garden, drawing on extracts from the Sakuteiki ...

Master Landscape and Home Design™ (403 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! ...

Custom LandDesigner 3D Design (1369 readers)

Contributed by amazon 14.04 2007 on 12:28:37 Topic: Other / Software, DVD Match on Article's text

Custom LandDesigner is a collection of five products to help you visualize and create your ideal landscape and garden: LandDesigner 3D, Photo Garden Designer, Garden Encyclopedia, Landscape Design Guide, and Designer Garden Library. ...

Professional Planting Design (754 readers)

Contributed by amazon 31.03 2007 on 20:07:23 Topic: Other / Books Match on 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 ...

The Well-Designed Garden (393 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.07 2007 on 10:32:48 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

With advice developed during his 40-year career as a master gardener, detailed, vivid photography, and annotated instructional sketches, John Brookes demonstrates how you can transform any garden into a Well-Designed Garden. AUTHOR BIO: One of the most widely regarded and consistently innovative voices in garden design, John Brookes has been writing best-selling garden books since 1969. Most recently, he is the author of Small Gardens . ...

The Well-Designed Mixed Garden (798 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 ...

Planting Design (550 readers)

Contributed by amazon 09.04 2007 on 19:55:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text

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. ...

Dream Gardens (527 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. ...

Perennial Garden Design (700 readers)

Contributed by amazon 03.04 2007 on 10:45:26 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Perennials can form a key part of a gardens structure and are dynamic and colorful plants whose forms and textures can be used to alter moods and influence the way we respond to and use a garden. The first section of this book shows how to create garden schemes with perennials, and the second section looks at the best perennials for year-round planting and color effect. A third section considers how to use perennials in different styles of garden. The book is completed by a list of perennials fo ...

Pots in the Garden (723 readers)

Contributed by amazon 01.04 2007 on 10:53:04 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Expert Design and Planting. No longer a technique just for apartment dwellers or novice gardeners, the use of ornamental containers on decks, patios, terraces, and in the garden itself can save time, space, and money, while offering experienced home gardeners unique creative challenges, site flexibility, and experimental fun. ...

Down to Earth With Helen Dillon (480 readers)

Contributed by amazon 04.12 2007 on 12:02:13 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

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 ...

Green Roof (470 readers)

Contributed by amazon 30.07 2007 on 11:57:41 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Green roofs are the great green hope of many environmentalists, politicians, and architects interested in more efficient and environmentally aware buildings. From a design standpoint, however, there is less consensus. While some see the roof garden as a visual statement using plants, geometric lines, and sculptural elements, others believe concerns for sustainability should outweigh visual appeal. A green roof that combines aesthetics and mechanics has become the goal of many a landscape archite ...

The Collector's Garden (671 readers)

Contributed by amazon 10.04 2007 on 10:16:27 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title

Now in paperback, this classic book invites gardeners into some of Americas most fascinating private gardens. Through over 400 color photographs of 28 gardens across the country, Ken Druse shows how gardeners can collect plants for their pleasure, without sacrificing their devotion to the natural garden or abandoning good design. Listings of plant sources, societies, and organizations have been updated for this edition. ...

New Garden Design Inspiring Private Paradises (55 readers)

Contributed by amazon 17.07 2008 on 11:23:30 Topic: Other / Books Match on Title and Article's text

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens , New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Ber ...