Designing Gardens On Slopes

Author : Elizabeth Davies,Ruth Chivers
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781837645404

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Designing Gardens on Slopes by Elizabeth Davies,Ruth Chivers Pdf

Designing real gardens on slopes for real people forms the central core of this book. It demonstrates that making plans for gardens on slopes of all types really works. Not only that, they are a necessary part of the process of turning challenging sites into attractive gardens. This is a really useful book that shows how good design helps to avoid costly common mistakes. It is a simple and informative guide detailing from survey to construction and planting. Not many gardens are completely flat. Just one step in a garden makes a big difference, adding more interest to the site. But slopes do present more of a challenge when designing gardens and definitely add to the expense of a building project. A select portfolio of beautifully designed gardens shows projects from start to finish. These are not simply attractive garden plans - they actually work! Not only does this book inspire, it will show how to master hilly sites. There are currently no books that deal specifically with this common problem: in fact, in many books, designing gardens on slopes is barely mentioned. Students of garden design, qualified garden and landscape designers, landscape builders and architects, and owners of sloping gardens will therefore find this book particularly useful.

Author : Susan Lang,Sunset Books
Publisher : Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gardening
ISBN : WISC:89084861673

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Hillside Landscaping by Susan Lang,Sunset Books Pdf

This all-inclusive volume explores landscaping solutions and provides easy-to-follow guidelines for designing plant beds and terraces, private steps and paths, serene seating areas, and soothing waterfalls on slopes of varying degrees. A guide to planting covers plant selection and installation, and includes advice on erosion control, and plants for walls and crevices. 200 photos. 80 illustrations.

Author : William Lake Douglas
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Gardening
ISBN : WISC:89031294721

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Hillside Gardening by William Lake Douglas Pdf

Author : Douglas, William Lake,Forsell, Mary
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall Canada
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0133889351

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Hillside Gardening : Evaluating the Site, Designing Views, Planting Slopes by Douglas, William Lake,Forsell, Mary Pdf

Author : Barbara W. Ellis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781612122168

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Covering Ground by Barbara W. Ellis Pdf

Ground covers are a pretty and practical way to bring diversity, elegance, and durability to open sweeps of lawn. Give your landscape a vibrant new palette that is both sustainable and low-maintenance through plantings of herbs, shrubs, mosses, and more. Barbara W. Ellis provides a variety of full-color lawn designs and professional planting advice to get you started. You’ll be amazed as your ordinary lawn transforms into a striking display of color and texture.

Author : Vanessa Gardner Nagel
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604692563

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Understanding Garden Design by Vanessa Gardner Nagel Pdf

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 you accommodate a client’s requests while maintaining the integrity of the project? The answers to these questions, and many more, can all be found in Understanding Garden Design. Most books on garden design focus on only one or a few aspects of garden design—choosing plants or creating a hardscape, for example. This comprehensive, accessible book lays out the entire process from start to finish in clear, precise language that avoids the pitfalls of “designspeak.” In fact, garden owners and clients of garden designers who want to understand more about the designer’s craft will be able to profit from the book’s lessons. Among the many topics covered are how to document a site, how to determine what a client needs and wants from the garden, how to take architectural features into consideration, how to think about circulation and lay out paths, how to use basic design principles, how to work with plants, and how to create a final design. Practical aspects are clearly laid out, including working with contractors and staying on top of the various phases of construction. This thorough handbook is profusely illustrated with helpful photographs and diagrams. A particularly interesting tool is the hypothetical garden plan that appears in each chapter to show how to apply the topics at hand. A practical, logical approach to the planning, design, and installation of a garden, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students, landscape professionals, and garden designers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781578051540

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Edible Landscaping by Anonim Pdf

Grow clean, delicious produce at home, saving money and natural resources at the same time. Since Rosalind Creasy popularized the concept of landscaping with edibles a quarter-century ago, interest in eating healthy, fresh, locally grown foods has swept across the nation. And food plants have been freed from the backyard, gracing the finest landscapes--even the White House grounds! Creasy's expertise on edibles and how to incorporate them in beautifully designed outdoor environments was first showcased in the original edition of Edible Landscaping, hailed by gardeners everywhere as a groundbreaking classic. Now this highly anticipated new edition presents the latest design and how-to information in a glorious full-color format, featuring more than 300 inspiring photographs. Drawing on the author's decades of research and experience, the book presents everything you need to know to create an inviting home landscape that will yield mouthwatering vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries. The comprehensive "Encyclopedia of Edibles"--a book in itself--provides horticultural information, culinary uses, sources, and recommended varieties; and appendices cover the basics of planting and maintenance, and of controlling pests and diseases using organic and environmentally friendly practices.

Author : John Stowar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hillside gardening
ISBN : 0730104567

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Steep and Sloping Gardens by John Stowar Pdf

Illustrated handbook for gardeners and home owners which provides information about design, landscape materials and plant selection for gardens on steep or sloping sites. Structural advice is also given on how to direct runoff, construct steps, decks, terraces, driveways and children's play areas. Includes an index. The author is a landscape designer.

Author : Benjamin Vogt
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781771422451

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A New Garden Ethic by Benjamin Vogt Pdf

In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.

Author : Diana Anthony
Publisher : Warwick House Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Edible landscaping
ISBN : 1894020553

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The Ornamental Vegetable Garden by Diana Anthony Pdf

Louis the XIV commissioned a landscape gardener to design the Potager de Roi at Versailles. Many of the fruit and vegetable pruning systems developed by this gardener are still in use today. This beautiful book illustrates the design and planting of the ornamental vegetable garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine to create edible gardens.

Author : Carol Smith
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780719840692

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Gardener's Guide to Gardening on a Gradient by Carol Smith Pdf

Gardening on a Gradient: Designing and Establishing Sloping Gardens is a complete guide to tackling one of a garden designer's biggest challenges. Whatever the size or the gradient, creating a garden on a sloping site presents lots of conflicting possibilities and potentially expensive choices. Whether home gardener or professional designer, this accessible book will guide you through the challenge, from the initial garden site assessment and survey, right through the design process to the final stages of planting. Step-by-step instructions and explanative diagrams offer readers practical solutions and tried-and-tested methods, as well as inspiration and some novel ideas drawn from sloping gardens around the UK.

Author : Ruth Rogers Clausen,Gregory D Tepper
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781643260549

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Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast by Ruth Rogers Clausen,Gregory D Tepper Pdf

"For Northeastern gardeners—all of whom battle the serious problem that is deer browsing—this is definitely one for the library.” —GardenRant The benefits of native plants are plentiful—less upkeep, more pollinators, and a better environment. In Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast, Ruth Rogers Clausen and Gregory D. Tepper provide a list of native plants that have one more benefit—they are proven to help prevent your garden from becoming a deer buffet. From annuals and perennials to grasses and shrubs, every suggested plant includes a deer-resistance rating, growing advice, companion species, and the beneficial wildlife the plant does attract. Let these beautiful natives help your landscape flourish! For gardeners in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC.

Author : Editors of Sunset Magazine
Publisher : Oxmoor House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0376037784

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Hillside Landscaping by Editors of Sunset Magazine Pdf

When it comes to slippery slopes, one thing you dont need is a steep learning curve. Thats why Sunset is releasing a new edition of its popular Hillside Landscaping book. Hundreds of photographs illustrate just how beautiful hillside gardens can be, accented with elements such as streams, terraces, and boulders. Step-by-step instructions guide you through basic construction techniques for walls, paths, steps, waterfalls, and more. The garden chapter includes top plants and how-tos for rock gardens and water gardens. Whether your slope is slight or imposing, youll find both inspiration and specifics here.

Author : James Van Sweden,Thomas Christopher
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781400063895

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The Artful Garden by James Van Sweden,Thomas Christopher Pdf

Shares lavishly illustrated, practical guidelines on how to draw on fine art examples for gardening inspiration, in a reference based on interviews with master artists that explores the connection between a garden path and elements in paintings, music and works of literature.

Author : Nick Bailey,Nota Bene Horticulture Ltd
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780857836243

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365 Days of Colour In Your Garden by Nick Bailey,Nota Bene Horticulture Ltd Pdf

A beautifully photographed guide for gardeners keen to attain the elusive colour-packed 'year-round garden'. Covering ideas on how to use, combine, design with and prolong colour, the book focuses on achievable ways of growing plants of every tone through 12 months of the year. It provides gardeners with an inspiring and surprising palette of plants to furnish their plots with sumptuous colour with detailed lists for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Bursting with practical advice on establishment and maintenance, the book also embraces plants for pots, cutting, difficult spaces and tiny gardens, and features long-season gardens from around the world.