Author: Editors of Sunset Book
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Keywords: garden, thrive, plants, important, tasks, month, need, everything, top, guide, roses, trees, california
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0376035293
ISBN-13: 9780376035295
Geared toward a new generation of California gardeners, this user-friendly guide is one of the first in a ground-breaking new Sunset series. It covers all categories and regional varieties, focusing on readily available plants that deliver optimal results with easy-to-understand selection and growing instructions. Includes a Calendar of Top 10 Tasks for each season with tips on pruning trees, feeding citrus, planting bare-root roses, and more. Richly illustrated with hundreds of photos and backed up by specific how-to instructions and illustrations, it provides all the resources to create a th
Authors:Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Beth Hanso,
Publisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garde
Keywords: garden, botanic, brooklyn, gardening, series, region, guide, century, compost, spectacular, plants, easy, secret, soil
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1889538035
ISBN-13: 9781889538037
Author: Valerie Easto
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: garden, making, elements, essential, pattern
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-02-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0881927805
ISBN-13: 9780881927801
A Pattern Garden gives us the tools for creating our own highly satisfying garden spaces. Easton identifies 14 garden patterns that she sees as fundamental to successful design and that will turn any landscape into a memorable and rewarding retreat. This book will help you identify what pleases you, and why, and provide inspiration and direction in the planting and layout of your own garden. Discussions of essential patterns, such as the creation of paths or the incorporation of water into the garden, are complemented by concrete advice about plant selection.
Author: Gordon Hayward
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: garden, design, approach, foolproof, house
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0393057704
ISBN-13: 9780393057706
A breakthrough in inspiring yet practical do-it-yourself garden and landscape design, including dozens of detailed plans. Finally, homeowners can tackle new garden designs and fix old ones with the confidence and know-how to succeed. Professional garden designer Gordon Hayward provides the tools by demonstrating the guiding principles behind his own designs: take clues from the style, materials, and proportions of existing features, particularly your house, but also garages and outbuildings, property lines, streets, walls, and walkways. Look closely at these features, and they will suggest
Author: Val Bourne
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Keywords: garden, season, forgotten, create, winter, shines
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-10-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 184403481X
ISBN-13: 9781844034819
For many gardeners, winter is simply a season to endure while planning for the coming spring. The rich floral splendor theyve enjoyed has given way to dull browns and grays tipped by lonely snow-capped branches. But that doesnt have to be: there are so many easy and inexpensive ways to add real winter interest to any garden. Two hundred color photographs show the diverse possibilities, along with site-specific design plans. There are suggestions for selecting and caring for a broad assortment of flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees that boast dramatic winter flair, plus professional choices f
Author: Mirabel Osler
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: garden, detail, bench, library
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1992-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0671744038
ISBN-13: 9780671744038
This series from Pavilion highlights a unique approach to detailed garden design through an attractive combination of close-up photographs and informative text. Published as a set of pocket-sized books, this series is specially designed to lead the eye straight to the heart of the garden focussing on those individual details so important to the overall design of your garden. A well-placed seat can catch the eye and transform the look of the garden, but how seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered. Here are seats for languor, for conversation or momentary sloth, contemplat
Author: Rob Whelan
Publisher: Bay Books
Keywords: garden, stone, timber, brick, using, structures, build, concrete
Published: 1980
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0858353725
ISBN-13: 9780858353725
