Garden Design category: 1176 books
by John Dixon Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Most books on the history of gardens describe the way that gardens have been created; by contrast, The Afterlife of Gardens examines the way that gardens have been experienced. Using examples from many sites around the world, John Dixon Hunt examines responses to gardens, from Renaissance sites to...
Garden Renovation
Transform Your Yard Into the Garden of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
“Provides inspiration for turning a tired garden into an enlivening treat.” —The English Garden
Your garden, just like your house, sometimes needs a makeover. The change can be as minor as replacing a shrub or as major as pulling everything up and starting from scratch. No matter the...
by Judith B. Tankard
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
“The ever-alluring Arts and Crafts garden…is profoundly relevant to our 21st-century needs.” —Sam Watters, author of Gardens for a Beautiful America
In Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development...
The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden
326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform Your Yard One Project at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
“Learn how to spend fewer hours and less money on revamping the garden.” —The English Garden
The prospect of revamping your yard can be daunting. Where do you start? How do all the areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? In The Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Garden, Sally Roth simplifies...
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
“This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice.” —Real Simple
Whether you are a new gardener or a green thumb, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is here to help you successfully plan, plant, and tend your garden. This hardworking guide includes thorough details on the essential...
Revive your Garden
How to bring your outdoor space back to life
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
'In his excellent and information-packed new book, Revive Your Garden, Bailey shares his tips for container plants - perfect for time-poor, distracted Londoners who still want an Instagram-worthy terrace.' Evening Standard
'It's an ideal book for anyone faced with the prospect of restoring...
The Twilight Garden
A guide to Enjoying Your Garden in the Evening Hours
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Some say that the twilight hours are the best time to enjoy a garden; a time when the spirit of the place really comes alive. It is also the time when many people pass front gardens on their return home, have a few spare minutes for garden maintenance, or want to enjoy the garden for entertaining....
by Roy Diblik
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
“A veritable goldmine for gardeners.” —Plant Talk
We’ve all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they?
The...
by Alma Queen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This book gives you everything you need to design and create your very own Zen Garden. It covers both indoor and outdoor Zen Gardens, traditional and modern plantings, topiaries, as well explaining the historical influences of Feng Shui, Chi, and Buddhist influences on the Zen Garden.
Filled...
by Walter Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on gardening, with instructions on every aspect from starting out to maintaining a picturesque flower garden. Written in simple language and profusely illustrated, this volume is perfect for budding gardeners and would make for a fantastic addition...
by Dueep J. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Table of Contents
A Beginner’s Guide to Rock Gardens
Introduction
Wrong Way Of Placing Rocks
The Right Way to Place Rock Stones
Good Rock Work-
Flat Ground
Wall
Stones on Slopes
Choosing the Best Soil
Building Your Rock Garden
Planting Your Rock Plants
Maintenance
Conifers
Bulbs
List of Rock...
Rosemary Verey
The Life & Lessons of a Legendary Gardener
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved international renown. She was the acknowledged apostle of the "English style," on display at her home at Barnsley House, the "must have" adviser to the rich and famous,...
by Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."
With...
by Hui Zou
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian...