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Contributed by amazon 06.07. 2011 19:06:06 Topic: Other / Books Match on TitleThe Private Spaces of the Worlds Leading Designers The gardens designers have created for their clients may be familiar to garden enthusiasts , but what happens in the designers own backyards? This fascinating book takes a look at the gardens of some top designers, investigating how they differ from their commissioned work, the design process, and how they reflect their owners design philosophy. ...
Contributed by amazon 06.07. 2007 09:39:42 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textFrom the Archives of Country Life | The gardens of the great Edwardian landscape designer, captured in all their glory in 200 color and duotone images from the archives of Country Life . Harold Peto (1854–1933) was one of the most celebrated landscape designers of the Edwardian era. A leading exponent of the ultra-romantic Italianate style so fashionable in the first two decades of the 20th century, he was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. ...
Contributed by amazon 01.04. 2007 10:29:02 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textSucculent 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 ...
Contributed by amazon 04.08. 2008 12:02:58 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textTHE COMPOSED GARDEN is the culminating work of one of Californias most brilliant garden designers , Harland Hand. Lushly illustrated with photographs of Hands gardens, this meticulously written guide describes his distinctive design principles, as well as practical strategies for using plants, hardscaping, repetitive and irregular elements, and texture and color in the garden. Brainy, ambitious, and uncompromising, THE COMPOSED GARDEN presents a unified and detailed theory of landscaping that em ...
Contributed by amazon 29.03. 2007 11:23:39 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textOrnamental grasses are among the most versatile and sophisticated of garden plants. Planted as single specimens in beds or on the terrace in a container, grasses are striking focal points. ...
Contributed by amazon 12.12. 2007 09:55:07 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textA 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 ...
Contributed by amazon 18.07. 2007 10:13:37 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text100 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. ...
Contributed by amazon 20.09. 2007 08:09:24 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThis book explores the history of the Hampton Court Palace landscape. Among the many themes it addresses are the role and impact of patrons, designers and estate workers; planting and horticultural techniques; statuary, fountains and other garden ornaments; and maintenance and conservation. ...
Contributed by amazon 09.04. 2007 19:31:09 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textMaples are an asset to any garden for their year-round ornamental qualities — but which to choose? With an unprecedented depth of photographic detail, Antoine le Hardÿ de Beaulieu has compiled the definitive guide to the beauty of maples. Supplementing the concise and practical descriptions are 1200 gorgeous photos showing different aspects of each plant. Landscape architects, garden designers, plant enthusiasts, and home gardeners will find this photobook a delightful and invaluable tool for ma ...
Contributed by amazon 20.04. 2008 21:44:34 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textCreating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden | With their superbly shaped trees and shrubs, subtly colored foliage, and emphasis on nature in its pure state, Japanese Zen gardens are spaces of beauty and tranquility. Serene Gardens is an exquisitely illustrated introduction to the style and its traditions—and the only book that explains how to use western plants and materials to achieve the minimalist look beloved by Japanese garden designers. Gardeners will find plant lists; climat ...
Contributed by amazon 10.04. 2007 10:30:43 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textFilled 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. ...
Contributed by amazon 14.01. 2008 12:35:39 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textGeert Pattyn, one of the most renowned floral designers in Belgium, has a very natural and personal style. In this brand-new monograph, Pattyn is introduced in his natural surroundings. His own home and garden are his source of inspiration and provide a canvas for decorating. Surprising, alluring and amazing, Bart Van Leuvens photography beautifully captures Pattyns stunning creations. ...
Contributed by amazon 12.04. 2007 10:26:46 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textGardeners, plant collectors, horticulturists, and landscape designers will find a valuable resource in this carefully selected plant directory of best performing winter-flowering shrubs. Readers will find daphnes, viburnums, witch hazels, and camellias to suit every taste and garden situation, as well as information about how to help their choice winter-flowering shrubs flourish from November to March. ...
Contributed by amazon 15.10. 2007 21:11:36 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThe must-have ingredient of any garden, herbs have long been the stalwarts of the cottage garden, imparting fragrance and health as well as flavor to beds and borders. However, todays garden designers have realized that herbs can also help to shape or be a key visual element in a garden. The Romantic Herb Garden shows how you can design with herbs, using these plants in an innovative and bold way as either a backdrop to or even the star of any garden scheme. ...
Contributed by amazon 20.04. 2008 21:41:11 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textLabyrinths & Mazes in the 21st Century | Wind your way through a maze or a labyrinth: two symbolic journeys, both rooted in myth and mystery. But while labyrinths are flat, circulate pathways designed for the acquisition of inner peace, mazes feature patterns of barriers that challenge, confuse, and deceive the walker. ...
Contributed by amazon 02.07. 2007 22:10:43 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textAward-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. ...
Contributed by amazon 11.10. 2007 09:11:53 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textPathways around your home can be the most striking outdoor element, providing a visual and physical guide through your surroundings. Instead of settling for boring straight-line sidewalks, why not create your own geography with paths that add art to necessity! Let this lush visual resource for gardeners and garden designers inspire you with its 125 different paths that feature styles from very casual to natural trails to elegantly formal walkways. ...
Contributed by amazon 16.09. 2008 09:31:33 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text105 Stunning Gardens Using Six Plants or Fewer | For every gardener who has hesitated over plant pairings or wondered if an array of favorite plants will work well together in the garden, Designer Plant Combinations inspires and delights with professionally designed combinations using just two to six plants. Here are the secrets to combining French lavender with California fuchsia ; prairie coneflower with hummingbird mint ; and tall purple moor grass with dwarf Korean lilac in a small garden be ...
Contributed by amazon 05.07. 2007 14:49:25 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textThis 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 ...
Contributed by amazon 16.09. 2008 09:18:47 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textIn Art and the Gardener, Gordon Haywards tenth book on garden design , he makes a radical departure from his earlier approaches in order to explore elements of visual language across two artistic disciplines-fine painting and garden design-in hopes that the remarkable crosscurrents will help reveal how to design or simply appreciate your garden with greater acuity. ...
Contributed by amazon 13.04. 2007 08:55:49 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textHardy and Tropical Plants for the Garden | Hibiscuses have entered an era of increasing popularity as garden designers and home gardeners rediscover the fine attributes of these wonderful plants. Here is the only book that covers the species and cultivars of the genus Hibiscus completely and in detail. Barbara Perry Lawton surveys both kinds of hibiscus: the tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate plants whose pure, clean colors are such grand assets to modern gardens and homes, as well as the ...
Contributed by amazon 01.02. 2010 09:23:55 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textNow available for the first time in paperback, the magnificent Oxford Companion to the Garden illuminates the history and design of gardens all over the world, from the earliest recorded known examples to the present day, encompassing everything from small private gardens , to the secret gardens of Arab princes, to the vast public park at Versailles . ...
Contributed by amazon 09.04. 2007 19:55:21 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textHome 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. ...
Contributed by amazon 29.03. 2007 11:50:36 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's text18 Miniature Garden Projects - Western home and garden design has been increasingly influenced in recent years by ancient Eastern traditions. Feng shui masters are now routinely consulted by architects and interior designers, and bonsai gardening continues to fascinate and inspire. ...
Contributed by amazon 09.11. 2007 09:50:52 Topic: Other / Books Match on Article's textMexican Design Books | Explore the architectural elements and water havens that will inspire your own courtyard paradise. ...
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