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A New Garden Ethic

Author : Benjamin Vogt
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771422459
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book A New Garden Ethic written by Benjamin Vogt and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.

John Brookes' Garden Design Book

Author : John Brookes
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780863186387
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book John Brookes' Garden Design Book written by John Brookes and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to creating a stylish garden. Takes a look at how the garden has developed through the ages and the influence reflected by social and fashion changes. This book also looks at the principles of garden design including drawing plans, and understanding scale and proportion. Advice is provided on how to focus on the visual potential of plants, and how to approach the subject of planting with a designer's eye. John Brookes is the author of The Garden Book, The Indoor Garden Book, The Country Garden and The New Small Garden.

The Book of Garden Design

Author : John Brookes
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 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.

A Practical Guide to Japanese Gardening

Author : Charles Chesshire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980491456
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book A Practical Guide to Japanese Gardening written by Charles Chesshire and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 700 photographs and illustrations include step-by-step features, colour plans and diagrams, and inspirational pictures of a stunning array of Japanese gardens throughout Europe, Japan and the US. Presents 15 projects for creating complete Japanese gardens, together with clear explanations, illustrations and photography - each complete garden consists of three special features. Special sections on the five Japanese garden styles (pond gardens, dry gardens, tea gardens, stroll gardens and courtyard gardens) explain the characteristics of each style with practical tips on how to achieve them. This is an invaluable, comprehensive guide to creating the Japanese gardening style in locations ranging from large gardens to small yards. A plant directory gives a detailed evaluation of the various types of plants with advice on flowering habits, key growth stages and hardiness.

Botany for Designers

Author : Kimberly Duffy Turner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393706249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Botany for Designers written by Kimberly Duffy Turner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Botany 101 for professionals who want a summary of planting design fundamentals. Plants are among the most important materials for effective landscape design. Yet the fundamentals of plant biology and growth; their morphology, color, and functional assets; and details such as planting, pruning techniques, and maintenance practices are surprisingly absent from our education and training, which tend to focus on other core principles like drainage, grading, and spatial relationships. What do you need to know about how plants grow and function? How can you determine appropriate plants for a particular site? How can you use their distinct design features effectively? What are the real design considerations to keep in mind? This book—a Botany 101 course for professionals and students alike—walks you through all the answers, equipping you with the ability to be not just an informed landscape designer but also an effective planting designer. Kimberly Duffy Turner, a landscape architect and horticulturalist, explains the essentials of planting design, exploring form and function and showing how various characteristics of plants and trees—shape, pigment, leaf veination, texture, fragrance, sound, height, and more—can be used to achieve effective site-appropriate designs. Specifying appropriate plant material and examining stock at the nursery—drawing up a planting schedule of the species or cultivar, sizes, and quantities—and evaluating modes of transplantation (when to ask for bare root, balled and burlapped, or containerized) are other key “on-the-job” concepts covered. A chapter on green design outlines some of the sustainable trends in botany: the role of LEED certification in landscape design; mitigating environmental problems with plants and open space; the emergence of green roofs and vertical gardens; biomimicry; and sensitive material selection, like composite wood products and plant-derived, soy-based paints. Both a handy appendix of common Latin and Greek terms used in horticulture and a comprehensive list of plant palettes are included. With more than 150 color photographs and schematic drawings illustrating key strategies, Botany for Designers is the professional’s go-to guide, showing you how an appreciation of plant fundamentals can lead to more inspired, well-designed landscapes.

Penelope Hobhouse's Garden Designs

Author : Penelope Hobhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711216914
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Penelope Hobhouse's Garden Designs written by Penelope Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of designs from Penelope Hobhouse for more than 20 gardens. Many of the designs are for urban sites - small town gardens in London and Surrey, a courtyard garden in Paris and a herb garden in New York. More ambitious schemes include an elegant formal garden for the Queen Mother.

Practical Guide to Garden Design

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780783541112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Practical Guide to Garden Design written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One volume of a series of comprehensive gardening books that cover garden design, choosing plants for the garden, planting and propagating, and planting diagrams.

Encyclopedia of Landscape Design

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465470786
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Landscape Design written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be inspired to imagine the garden of your dreams with this guide that will help you plan, build, and plant your perfect outdoor space. Whether you're aiming for a total redesign or targeting a specific area, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers fresh and achievable ideas for every gardener: grasp the fundamentals of landscape and garden design, find a style that's right for you, and create the structures and planting plans to bring your ideas to life. Produced by a team of award-winning horticultural experts, Encyclopedia of Landscape Design offers extensive design inspiration backed up with solid practical content, including step-by-step landscape structures and planting techniques.

From Art to Landscape

Author : W. Gary Smith
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 0881929735
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book From Art to Landscape written by W. Gary Smith and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden designers face some daunting questions: How do I begin the creative process? Where can I find design inspiration? How will I know if my design is successful? If you approach these questions like an artist, with an artist’s tools and ways of looking at the world, you will be able to design gardens that combine the unique character of a place with your innermost creative spirit. You’ll make inspiring gardens that have real meaning, for yourself as well as others. In this luminous volume, landscape architect and artist W. Gary Smith explores the various means that artists use—including drawing, painting, sculpture, meditation, poetry, and dance—to create personal connections with the landscape that enrich and inform garden design. Part 1 focuses on simple techniques that anyone can use to nurture creativity, unleash the imagination, and get ideas down on paper. Part 2 shows how these techniques have shaped actual design projects—with spectacular results. Throughout, the author’s friendly and encouraging voice removes the shroud of mystery surrounding the creative process and shows how even the least artistically inclined can tap into inner resources they never knew they had. Smith’s own exuberant sketches and bold paintings illuminate the path from art to landscape. Infectiously engaging and unfailingly inspiring, this eye-opening book deserves to be read and reread by anyone who aspires to master the rich and demanding art of garden design.

The Complete Practical Guide to Patio,Terrace, Backyard and Courtyard Gardening

Author : Joan Clifton
Publisher : Lorenz Books
ISBN 13 : 9780754818878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Practical Guide to Patio,Terrace, Backyard and Courtyard Gardening written by Joan Clifton and published by Lorenz Books. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 800 colour images, including garden plans and diagrams, step-by-step techniques, and inspirational pictures of terraces, patios and courtyard gardens from around the world.

Garden Revolution

Author : Larry Weaner
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604696168
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Garden Revolution written by Larry Weaner and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AHS Book Award winner This lushly-photographed reference is an important moment in horticulture that will be embraced by anyone looking for a better, smarter way to garden. Larry Weaner is an icon in the world of ecological landscape design, and now his revolutionary approach is available to all gardeners. Garden Revolution shows how an ecological approach to planting can lead to beautiful gardens that buck much of conventional gardening’s counter-productive, time-consuming practices. Instead of picking the wrong plant and then constantly tilling, weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing, Weaner advocates for choosing plants that are adapted to the soil and climate of a specific site and letting them naturally evolve over time. Allowing the plants to find their own niches, to spread their seed around until they find the microclimate and spot that suits them best, creates a landscape that is vibrant, dynamic, and gorgeous year after year.

Landscape Design Answer Book

Author : Jane Bath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Design Answer Book written by Jane Bath and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing specifically for new homeowners and those planning renovations, Bath pulls from her twenty-five-plus years of experience helping thousands of clients. Even though Bath faces a wide range of landscape design situations in her work, the solutions to these important landscape problems remain constant. That's why The Landscape Design Answer Book is unique. Bath reduces the subject of landscape design to about three hundred specific design problems (or goals) a homeowner may face--and provides solutions that can be universally applied.

Gaia's Garden

Author : Toby Hemenway
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603580298
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Gaia's Garden written by Toby Hemenway and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively revised and expanded edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban gardeners. The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.

Cultivating Garden Style

Author : Rochelle Greayer
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604694777
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Garden Style written by Rochelle Greayer and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Get ready, the garden you’ve always longed for is at your fingertips. With images and ideas, Cultivating Garden Style releases your inner designer and helps you create a landscape that is yours and yours alone!” —Ivette Soler, author of The Edible Front Yard In Cultivating Garden Style, Rochelle Greayer shares ways to create outdoor areas that are charming, comfortable, appealing, and reflect individuality. It features twenty-three unique garden styles accompanied by advice on how to recreate the look. Simple step-by-step projects, like how to make a macramé plant hanger, help the reader personalize the space. Helpful tips and tricks, including how to pick the right tree and pick the right combination of plants and containers, offer essential lessons in gardening and design. More than 1,500 dazzling color photographs give the book a visual punch.

The Indoor Garden Book

Author : John Brookes
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9781564585271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Indoor Garden Book written by John Brookes and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on decorating with plants, tells how to match plants with containers, and covers cut- and dried-flower arrangements, plant care, and room-by-room deoorating advice.

The Waterwise Australian Native Garden

Author : Angus Stewart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760873020
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Waterwise Australian Native Garden written by Angus Stewart and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 HMAA Laurel Award for best book First published as The Australian Native Garden There's never been a more crucial time to droughtproof your garden and to consider Australian native plants as a key component in your outdoor space. This award-winning practical volume, from two of the country's foremost horticultural experts, offers everything you need to know about designing and growing a garden that promotes careful water use and features Australian native plants in the home garden. Including information on the fundamentals of Australian soils, cultivation techniques, drainage, pruning, fertilising and maintenance, as well as creating a fire-resistant garden, establishing habitats attractive to native fauna and growing your own bush foods. The Waterwise Australian Native Garden is a highly illustrated, comprehensive showcase of the best plants to choose and the best gardens from which to draw inspiration. It's a must-have for garden lovers all over this wide, brown land. 'If you're looking to improve or create a native garden, this is the book for you' - Australian Geographic 'This is a book to treasure, and one that will be a companion for a lifetime' - Adelaide Advertiser 'An authoritative reference for home gardeners everywhere' - Country Home Ideas

Garden Design Made Easy

Author : Tim Newbury
Publisher : Ward Lock Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780706378320
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Garden Design Made Easy written by Tim Newbury and published by Ward Lock Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides readers with the necessary information to change the look of their gardens with minimum effort and maximum effect. The book takes the reader through the whole design process in a simple way, avoiding confusing jargon and complex diagrams. It opens with details of how to make lists of what you want and what you need, followed by advice on assessing your site and drawing up a budget. Next, the book shows how to create a design by introducing the garden features of your own choice, adding the details and, finally, how to plant your garden. There is also the problem solver for those difficult sites.