Creating Small Formal Gardens
Author: Roy C. Strong
Publisher:
Published: 1989-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781850292319
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Creating Formal Gardens
Author: Roy Strong
Publisher:
Published: 1992-01-18
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780517079669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English Formal Garden
Author: Günter Mader
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in Germany in 1992, thi s study of the formal style of English garden layout (which is based on 17th century designs) is richly illustrated and includes a gazetteer of the 100 most beautiful gardens in En gland '
The Humane Gardener
Author: Nancy Lawson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1616896175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Kitchen Garden Revival
Author: Nicole Johnsey Burke
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0760366861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting—with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance What crops are best for your kitchen garden A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro Season-by-season growing guides It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.
Creating Small Gardens (850298262)
Author: Roy C. Strong
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 1989-08
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781850291855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoy Strong demonstrates the scope for creating small gardens by presenting over 20 widely differing gardens in detail. Each garden is illustrated with colour photographs and explanatory planting plans which can be used either as blueprints or as sources of inspiration.
Art of the Formal Garden
Author: Arend Jan van der Horst
Publisher: Phoenix Illustrated
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781841880358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday's "formal garden" features an exciting combination of elegant and romantic elements. These 12 richly illustrated arrangements, created by a leading designer, feature "imaginative symmetry"--the free planting of plants within a symmetrical framework. The result: a dynamic blend of rustic and urban, open and hidden styles. Adapt the author's plans and planting schemes, choosing from many styles of hedges, herbaceous borders, terraces, water features, kitchen gardens, pergolas, to create a classic garden all your own.
Uprooted
Author: Page Dickey
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1643260510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.” —The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in northwestern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and woodland around a former Methodist church. In Uprooted, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again. In these pages, follow her journey: searching for a new home, discovering the ins and outs of the landscape surrounding her new garden, establishing the garden, and learning how to be a different kind of gardener. The surprise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape. Written with humor and elegance, Uprooted is an endearing story about transitions—and the satisfaction and joy that new horizons can bring.
Creating Small Gardens
Author: Roy C. Strong
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780753700600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 20 different gardens featured in this book range from the ornamental to the productive. Each one is illustrated with colour photographs while planting plans identify the plants used, and set our their position in the garden.
Creative Garden Design: Patterns
Author: Jack Wallington
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0593327934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreative Garden Design: Patterns is a unique and practical reference for creating mood, proportion and scale in the garden. Its more than 500 photographs reveal the hidden patterns in plants, gardens and the wider landscape to inspire plans for gardens of all sizes and illustrate how to appreciate the styles of design in larger gardens andparks. Explore the influences of pattern in design and thepeople who made them and gain a greater understanding of the roles of color, texture, shape and perspective in the garden. Each chapter explores a different theme of garden pattern, including: • Plants with Pattern: Leaf Shape and Texture • Patterns within Layouts: Symmetrical and Formal • Patterns with Plants: Borders and Bedding • Patterns in Landscape: Paving and Walls • Water Patterns: Pools and Streams Additional features include profiles of patterns ingarden design history from abstract to Islamic gardens. A complete visual delight, Creative Garden Design:Patterns is a classic work that deserves pride of place on every garden designer’s bookshelf.
