The Essentials Of Garden Design

Author : Rosemary Alexander
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604691433
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Garden Design Workbook written by Rosemary Alexander and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Garden Design Workbook guides the reader through every stage of planning a garden — how to survey a site, how to choose landscaping materials, and how to develop planting schemes. This fully revised and updated second edition features new U.S. case studies and new photographs. Valuable tips on green gardening are new to this edition, and include how to harvest rainwater, how to design a green roof, tips on sustainable planting, and a guide to composting. Tailor-made for hands-on gardeners, the workbook approach is accessible, practical, and can be used to create a garden from scratch and to redesign an existing garden. Gardeners will find easy ways to measure large spaces, estimate the height of a tree, and find the right proportions for a deck. They'll also find tips on space, light, and color. Includes hundreds of easy-to-follow line drawings and diagrams.

Author : John Brookes
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Garden Design written by John Brookes and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step guide to creating garden designs that includes instructions for blueprints, using patterns, and measuring.

Author : Vanessa Gardner Nagel
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 0881929433
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Garden Design written by Vanessa Gardner Nagel and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do you accommodate a client’s requests while maintaining the integrity of the project? The answers to these questions, and many more, can all be found in Understanding Garden Design. Most books on garden design focus on only one or a few aspects of garden design—choosing plants or creating a hardscape, for example. This comprehensive, accessible book lays out the entire process from start to finish in clear, precise language that avoids the pitfalls of “designspeak.” In fact, garden owners and clients of garden designers who want to understand more about the designer’s craft will be able to profit from the book’s lessons. Among the many topics covered are how to document a site, how to determine what a client needs and wants from the garden, how to take architectural features into consideration, how to think about circulation and lay out paths, how to use basic design principles, how to work with plants, and how to create a final design. Practical aspects are clearly laid out, including working with contractors and staying on top of the various phases of construction. This thorough handbook is profusely illustrated with helpful photographs and diagrams. A particularly interesting tool is the hypothetical garden plan that appears in each chapter to show how to apply the topics at hand. A practical, logical approach to the planning, design, and installation of a garden, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students, landscape professionals, and garden designers.

Author : Staff Gardendesign
Publisher : Collins Design
ISBN 13 : 9780060392079
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden Design Book written by Staff Gardendesign and published by Collins Design. This book was released on 1997-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Garden Design magazine has been bringing its unique vision of the garden to a smart, savvy readership through its lush, arrestingly beautiful photography and thought-provoking, informative articles. Now Garden Design captures this wisdom and style in a book that delights the senses and enriches the mind. This book of visions for the new gardener. The man or woman who -- like most of us -- longs to create a special place within the world of nature. Step-by-step, from essential design elements to offbeat flourishes, from the all-important conception of an overarching design plan (the hallmark of a successful garden, be it minimal and Japanese in style or an exuberant English countryside profusion of color and shape) to the basics of planting and cultivating, from the habits and personalities of both rare and common plants to suggestions on the best ways to make the most of limited growing space (crucial to land-deprived city dwellers). Cheryl Merser and the editors of Garden Design magazine explain the new garden: What is it, exactly? And what makes it grow? From first seed to first frost -- season after season -- The Garden Design Book takes us through the sometimes complex, sometimes blessedly simple, but always rewarding experience that is gardening.

Author : Editors of Sunset Books
Publisher : Oxmoor House
ISBN 13 : 9780376031891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Garden Designs written by Editors of Sunset Books and published by Oxmoor House. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 120 garden plans designed to fit every imaginable landscape situation, this new volume guides readers through the issues that perplex everyone planning a garden.

Author : Robert Littlepage
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548052171
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Garden Design written by Robert Littlepage and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right from the start Rob Littlepage emphasizes that gardens are about far more than just plants and that the owner or designer has a wonderful palette of materials, structures, patterns and colours, all of which can be woven in such a way that they positively relate to the house and surrounding landscape. Gardens are about the creation of personal space, perhaps the largest space over which we will ever have direct responsibility and that in itself is both a fascinating challenge and a real responsibility. This whole question of simplicity and practicality is something that Rob eschews in both this book and his work, over complication is the death of any design, in any field; this is perhaps the most important lesson of all. David Stevens FSGD, FCI Hort Emeritus Professor of Garden Design, Middlesex University, England

Author : Heidi Howcroft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770858749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden Design written by Heidi Howcroft and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Mitchell Beazley an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Limited"--Title page verso.

Author : Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604692960
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing with Succulents written by Debra Lee Baldwin and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, Designing with Succulents gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 90 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Beginners and experienced designers, landscapers, and collectors alike will find what they need to visualize, create, and nurture the three-dimensional work of art that is the succulent garden.

Author : Deborah Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845330590
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Garden Planning & Construction written by Deborah Parker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the esteemed Royal Horticultural Society comes the definitive step-by-step guide to selecting and building a wide range of garden structures. It provides all the key information needed for planning the design and constructing a garden, including a look at the available materials and selecting the sizes, typical quantities, and optimal qualities needed. Best of all, the detailed instructions and illustrations make even quite complex projects straightforward and easy to accomplish. In addition, there’s invaluable coverage of design principles, garden styles, and water and ornamental features.

Author : Terence Conran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840911817
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Garden Book written by Terence Conran and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work is for anyone wanting to improve their garden. Design solutions are presented along with practical information enabling you to create a garden that looks and works as you want it to. The book is split into six sections on essential gardens, exterior design, living space, planting design, a directory and foundation techniques.