Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 160 pages
- Published by: Taunton January 15, 2001
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1561584746
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1561584741
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Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
From Booklist
The contributors to
Exploring Garden Style discuss how establishing a theme can open the way to developing a successful garden design. This handbook includes site plans and celebrates an array of traditional and naturalistic garden designs. Specialized styles such as water, knot, and tropical gardens are featured in the book's final section. Overflowing with useful information, the content spans the making of garden rooms, enriching the soil, eliminating lawns, and landscaping with native plants. Alpines, edibles, ornamental herbs, sumptuous roses, and prairie plants, in turn, inspire horticultural bliss for a bevy of garden writers who eloquently share their know-how.
Alice JoyceCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Product Description
Gardening enthusiasts will be inspired by this series of garden design books from more than 50 of America's best gardeners, landscape architects, horticulturists, and nursery owners. They'll discover a wealth of information on everything from planting perennial borders and garden rooms to landscape layout and gardening in harmony with nature.
Exploring Garden Style features ideas for designing and planting gorgeous gardens, advice on designing a greenhouse, and tips for gardening in harmony with nature.
Reader ReviewsIn this book twenty garden designers share ideas and techniques for creating a beautiful garden in a unique style. The book is divided into three parts - Traditional Gardens, Naturalistic Gardens and Specialty gardens. Each part is composed of short, beautifully-illustrated articles written in a very personal style by a gardener, landscape designer or horticulturist. It is the personal nature of each article that contributes most to the appeal of this book. Take the opening of Nani Waddoups article titled "Tropical Garden, Temperate Zone". She writes "The newer parts of our garden look a little out of place..." How can you resist an opening like that? Her article describing her garden - listed in the Smithsonian Registry of Gardens - shows how her Hawaiian background prompted her and helped her to develop a lush pseudo-tropical garden in the Pacific Northwest. My favourite section is that on Naturalistic Gardens. Five writers form points as far apart as Connecticut and Texas share with the reader ways in which they used the local climate, geology, soil and plants to create a garden that has given each of them great pleasure and satisfaction. Top marks to the Taunton Press for introducing these garden writers first to Fine Gardening magazine and now in book form for those of us who like to sit down and read the whole collection. The editors have put together a book that offers gardeners a diversity of fresh ideas in a most attractive format.
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