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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Garden design & planning
Jim Hole looks at locations and areas inside of your home and helps
you with the selection of great plants for a variety of indoor
locations and situations
Piet Oudolf, one of world's most visionary and influential
landscape gardeners, is at the forefront of the New Perennial
planting movement. This glorious full-colour volume features
twenty-three of Oudolf's most beautiful public and private gardens.
Noel Kingsbury's accessible text places Oudolf's work in context,
and explains how each garden and the plants selected for it fit the
specific environment, while Oudolf's detailed plans provide
inspiration and insight for all those interested in small personal
gardens and the design of large-scale public landscapes alike.
This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.
The 18th-century phenomenon of the English Landscape Garden was so
widespread that even today, when so much has been built over or
otherwise changed, one is never far from an example throughout
England. Although seemingly natural, the English Landscape Garden
was generally the result of considerable contrivance, effort and
design skill, the result of `the art that conceals art'. It might
involve digging lakes, raising or levelling hills, and planting
trees, sometimes in vast numbers. Nature was arranged and shown to
best advantage. The English landscape garden took many forms, and
the variety of manifestations was and remains remarkable. A great
number survive, if sometimes in modified form, and can be visited
and appreciated. The book is structured so as to give the
background to, and motivation for, creating the landscape garden;
to summarise the chronology of its development; to chart the most
significant writers and theorists; and to consider the range of the
many forms it took. The story of the landscape garden is complex,
multi-layered and constantly changing in emphasis for such an
apparently simple and straightforward construct. This book will
help to uncover some of the richness that lies behind a meaningful
part of the environment. The book can be regarded as a companion to
the volume already published by Historic England, The English
Landscape Garden in Europe.
Text in English and German. The architect and photographer Rolf
Reiner Maria Borchard, who is professor of design principles at the
Muthesius-Hochschule in Kiel, has chosen seven of the most
beautiful gardens and photographed them during several trips,
always in spring, in other words at a time when the garden
architecture has not yet been overwhelmed by the vegetation, and so
can make the best possible impact in the image. His trained eye for
the way architecture is embedded in the landscape means that he has
found striking and convincing images, steeped in the harmony of the
gardens.
"Gardens of the Gods" reveals the symbolic language of garden
design, exploring the gardens of China, with their moon gates and
immortal rocks, the Zen gardens of Japan, the paradise gardens of
Islam, those of Renaissance Italy with their richly mythological
imagery, the landscaped parks of England, the gardens of New
Harmony in the US and some striking, modern examples of symbolic
gardens, including the Tarot Garden of the sculptress Niki de Saint
Phalle in Italy. This illustrated book also includes a chapter with
suggestions for creating a "garden of meaning" and a selected
catalogue of plants with symbolic or mythological associations.
Based on ten years of research, travel and curiostiy, this text is
also the result of a personal quest - to reveal the mystical codes
written in the astonishing worlds of gardens worldwide.
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Bonsai brings serenity to the home with beautiful miniature
trees in idyllic container landscapes. Now DK brings this ancient
practice into the 21st century, explaining how to grow and care for
bonsai trees with a clear step-by-step approach.
Offering easy-to-follow advice and simple photography, "Bonsai"
demystifies the art of bonsai with sequences covering the
traditional styles of Chokkan, Moyogi, Shakan, and Kengai, as well
as deadwood bonsai styles such as Ishizuki, Yose Uye, and
Sharimiki.
For bonsai enthusiasts in search of fresh ideas, innovative
techniques, and new ways to display their living art, "Bonsai" is
the must-have book of the season.
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