Description: For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants play subordinate roles.With passion and eloquenc...
Author: Robinson, Nick Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1992, Nick Robinsons Planting Design Handbook has since become widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. This second edition still p...
Author: Robertson, Ian Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Six Thousand Years up the Garden Path, a seasoned horticulturalist takes others on a light-hearted and magical journey through the history of gardens. Ian Robertson has spent a lifetime working i...
Author: Powell, Michael Publisher: Summersdale Humour Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is for inept armchair gardeners everywhere. Month by month, it gently guides the reader through the seasons, showing what are weeds and what are not (even if the weeds are pretty), how to di...
Description: The Essential Garden Design Workbook guides the reader through every stage of planning a garden - how to survey a site, how to choose landscaping materials, and how to develop planting schemes. This f...
Description: Designing a garden is a complex task. Where do you start? What kind of skills do you need? What are the logical steps in creating a design? How do you communicate your ideas to a client, and how do yo...
Author: Higgins, Adrian Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chanticleer, located in Wayne, Pennsylvania, is a garden landscape of constant renewal. In Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden, Adrian Higgins and photographer Rob Cardillo chronicle the plantings and scen...
Description: Vertical gardening is the latest, most talked about trend in gardening. Outdoor living walls planted with anything from succulents to vegetables, are springing up in urban and subu...
Author: Haltom, Susan / Brown, Jane Roy Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By the time she reached her late twenties, Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was launching a distinguished literary career. She was also becoming a capable gardener under the tutelage of her mother, Chestina W...
Author: Haltom, Susan / Brown, Jane Roy Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: By the time she reached her late twenties, Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was launching a distinguished literary career. She was also becoming a capable gardener under the tutelage of her mother, Chestina W...