Peter Brown’s photographs of the open spaces at America’s heart reveal a complex landscape both beautiful and powerful, meditative and dynamic, vast yet intimate. When Peter Brown began to photograph the Great Plains, he started a journey that would take him over a dozen years and many thousands of miles to complete. Brown’s photographs make a careful study of the land and sky of the Plains, and of the people who inhabit its towns and cities, showing us the endless variations of color, light, mood, and character that can be found there. In Brown’s portraits we see the Plains in all its seasons, an ever-changing landscape of extremes, where weather is a genuine presence and human existence is at once fragile and resilient. These provocative images reveal both the stunning drama and subtle charms of the land and the people of this vast swath of America which includes the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and New Mexico. “It is this America, in all its otherness, that Peter Brown has presented to us, with its complexity and simplicity, its banality and beauty, its ordinary grace.” –Kathleen Norris, from the Introduction
How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based landscaping business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your own business. Author Owen Dell shares his experiences and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based landscaping business. He will show you how to purchase the right tools, estimate start-up costs, price services, and stay profitable once in business. From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, his step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand. Learn all about getting clients and referrals, outshining the competition, bidding competitively organizing your business, getting paid and much more.
Grasses and Bamboos
Among the most important plants used in contemporary landscape design, ornamental grasses and bamboos can transform an ordinary outdoor space into a gracious garden in a variety of ways, all beautifully illustrated in this innovative book.
Easy to grow and maintain, the grasses and bamboos featured are shown as part of imaginative design schemes. Planted as single specimens, they make striking focal points; in mixed borders, smaller forms bring rhythm; in water gardens, they add height; in shady areas, gentle movement. The book includes a directory of the best one hundred grasses and bamboos and all the essential guidance needed to care for, propagate, and maintain these interesting plants.
