Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management. This text pushes the frontiers of standard water management in new directions, challenging readers into abandoning the comfortable safety of conducting business-as-usual within narrow disciplinary confines, and instead directing views outward to the exciting and incompletely mapped regions of true interdisciplinary water sensitive planning and design. With contributions from renowned practitioners, Part I provides seventeen chapters addressing the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and Part II presents another seventeen chapters focusing on issues relating to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. In addition, Professor France has provided a “Response” to accompany each chapter, which succinctly underscores the salient features in more detail and emphasizes cross-linking to other chapters in the book. The “Overview” provides a brief road-map to navigate through the section. Finally, the discussion summaries at the end of each section elaborate on past problems, current challenges, and future directions. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design puts forward the very best of modern water sensitive planning and design and should be required reading for everyone involved in this dynamic and crucial field.
Designing Your Outdoor Home
Plan a beautiful, functional landscape for the entire family to use and enjoy. This book features a fresh, simple, down-to-earth approach to landscape design.
There are professional landscape design principles and methods, complete planning and budgeting information and a detailed guide to landscape materials and plants. Beyond the wealth of information, you’ll find hundreds of helpful photos that will help you in your efforts to plan the perfect landscape.
Designing Your Outdoor Home: Landscape Planning Made Easy (Black & Decker Outdoor Home)
Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden
In Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden, Norman Winter shows how to create dazzling landscapes based on colors, how to select for harmony, and how to create stunning contrasts. He takes the gardener through combinations of flowers, foliage, grasses, and herbs. He also guides acolytes to companion plantings for special theme gardens, such as cottage, tropical, butterfly and hummingbird, herb and edible, container, and even the new patriotic Victory Garden.
Featuring over 200 color photographs, Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden is filled with cutting-edge ideas for the savvy gardener working with superior varieties found at today’s progressive garden centers. Winter, a revered garden guru, discovers the choicest selections for the savvy home landscaper. Some of these exotic and unusual flowers come from places such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, and the Mediterranean, but others are native plants.
Gardeners want to select varieties that not only provide the best value but also offer sizzle and performance within the style and conditions of a particular location. In his book, Winter explains how to transform a landscape into a the garden by combining plants with attention-getting beauty in mind.
