Discover the simple elegance and plentiful rewards of country-style gardening! This spectacular gardening guide explores 19 unique creations by gardeners in pastoral, city, and small-town settings across the country. Each country garden, whether large or small, has its own personality and story. And whatever your level of expertise, you’ll benefit from the owner’s experience. Every chapter features: – A beautifully and accurately illustrated garden – An encyclopedia with a color photograph of and salient information about each plant – Mail-order sources – Growing tips – And more! Each featured garden represents a wide range of areas and growing conditions so you can choose a plan suited to your region and taste, and a hardiness zone map makes plant selection convenient and simple. As beautiful as it is informative, Country Garden Planner is sure to make your love of nature flourish. Perfect for gardening enthusiasts everywhere!”Country gardens” are popular these days. They are distinguished not so much by their location or size as by their abundance, informality, and profusion of color. Country Garden Planner shows 19 beautiful incarnations of the country garden–water gardens, scented gardens, shade gardens, dried-flower gardens–with photographs, plant suggestions, and a roughed-in plan for each. There’s also a chapter on creating your own country garden, with advice on attracting birds and butterflies, container gardening, and using structures in the garden. The plant suggestions are satisfyingly old-fashioned, and include color, size, and zone information. Country Garden Planner isn’t an in-depth planning guide, but the pictures and text are pleasantly harmonious, providing gentle inspiration to would-be bucolic green thumbs.
Garden Transformations: Designer Secrets and Tricks of the Trade
All in color! Transform an ordinary outdoor space into the garden of your dreams! These tantalizing, quirky, and theatrical ideas from an award-winning garden designer quickly and inventively solve almost any problem. Have a boring shed that’s an eyesore–but useful for storage? Turn it into a gypsy caravan. With the latest and greatest garden colors, create decorative effects such as fake lead and verdigris, imitation stone work, mosaic, and trompe l’oeil. Make living sculptures, breathe new life into boundaries, gateways, and entrances, and achieve magic with special lighting and water features such as ponds, fountains, and waterfalls. In 240 color photographs and illustrations, every exceptional garden design springs to life on the page. Trim size: 9 1/2 x 11.
Garden Transformations: Designer Secrets and Tricks of the Trade
Landscapes and Architectures: Poems
The poet’s first published collection of his search for connections and meaningin today’s fast-paced, fragmentary world.
