Garden Design category: 1176 books
by Jan Johnsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
“Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape—boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.”...
Ichnographia Rustica
Stephen Switzer and the designed landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
One of the most significant occurrences in the history of design was the creation of the English Landscape Garden. Accounts of its genesis…the surprising structural change from the formal to a seeming informal are numerous. But none has ever been quite convincing and none satisfactorily placed the...
The Complete Kitchen Garden
An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs & 100 Seasonal Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A design and recipe resource with “all the tools to plan a productive garden before seeds ever meet the ground” (The Wall Street Journal).
Based on seasonal cycles, each chapter of this indispensible book provides a new way to look at the planning stages of starting a garden—with themes...
by James Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should...
Essay on Gardens
A Chapter in the French Picturesque
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape,...
by Joe Eck
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Elements of Garden Design does what few gardening books do--it addresses the process of conceiving a whole garden, as opposed to a single element like color or a particular class of plant. Joe Eck explores the idea of a garden, and offers a practical approach to translating concepts such as "intention"...
The Food Forest Handbook
Design and Manage a Home-Scale Perennial Polyculture Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
A food forest is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials. Rooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a variety of plants such as fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial herbs and vegetables. Food forests can help increase...
by Zahid Sardar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden...
Visionary Landscapes
Japanese Garden Design in North America, The Work of Five Contemporary Masters
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Japanese gardens are found throughout the world today—their unique forms now considered a universal art form. This stunning Japanese gardening book examines the work of five leading landscape architects in North America who are exploring the extraordinary power of Japanese-style garden design to...
by Bunny Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
First published in 1998, On Garden Style established Bunny Williams as a reputable expert on gardens. In Bunny Williams on Garden Style, Williams visits impeccably designed gardens around the world, shedding light on the key components that make a garden so appealing and idyllic. For Williams, gardens...
by Agnes Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The gardens around our homes reflect our souls to the world around us. Indeed, garden, through the beauty, quietness of the plants and flowers. Each layering of plants, and any addition of gardening elements add a new texture and picture to the garden. For me gardening has contributed to my personal...
Tomorrow's Garden
Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
With a keen eye for aesthetics matched by a strong concern for the environment, garden expert Stephen Orr has developed a sense of what a modern garden should be: small, visually pleasing, and responsible. In Tomorrow's Garden, he presents gardens in 14 American cities that have been scaled back and...
The Less Is More Garden
Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
“Big ideas for your small garden.” —Garden Design
When it comes to gardens, bigger isn’t always better, and *The Less Is More Garden *shows you how to take advantage of every square foot of space. Designer Susan Morrison offers savvy tips to match your landscape to your lifestyle,...
Palm Beach Panache
Infusing Island Style with Serendipitous and Re-Imagined Finds
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
In this beautifully photographed view into how Palm Beachers really live, ‘Remodelista’ and self-described layman Cultural Anthropologist, Carolina Fernandez brings her business acumen and artistic sensibilities to unearth its art and design scene, and to help others feel its rapidly rising heartbeat....