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Books > Gardening > Garden design & planning
This title is a practical guide to designing and planting your
garden, with 15 plans and over 200 inspirational pictures. It helps
how to successfully plan a garden, from a large family space to
patios, balconies and even roof gardens. It contains advice, tips
and great ideas on the basics of good garden design, as well as how
to create a style that suits your needs. It offers over 15 plans
for well-planned gardens, with stunning photographs showing them in
all their glory. It gives step-by-step guidance on a range of
hands-on projects, including constructing a trellis, building
overheads, creating shade, and installing garden lights. It is an
inspirational and practical book that will guide you from drawing
your first plans through to planting preferences and adding the
finishing touches. Often gardening is about maintaining the status
quo, but sometimes it is about new plans and a change of design.
This book will guide you through such exciting opportunities,
offering help and advice on how to make the most of your garden
shape and size, planning the different areas and elements, and
filling the new spaces with exactly the right planting schemes for
you. Divided into three sections, the book first takes you through
initial surveying, basic patterns and different kinds of design.
The next chapter gives guidance on boundaries, walling, creating
shape and focal points and other practicalities. The last chapter
offers ideas and projects to follow for gardens, patios, balconies
and roof gardens, ranging from entertaining areas to chill-out
zones, and different styles from elegant formality to an enchanted
jungle. Illustrated throughout with 200 images, this is an
invaluable guide to garden planning.
Rosalind Creasy, a guru of edible landscaping, does it again with
The Italian Vegetable Garden--an invitation to grow and prepare
some of the exceptional varieties of produce for which Italian
cooking is so justly famous. This beautifully illustrated guide to
growing Italian vegetables gives you tips for planting and
preparing fantastic varieties of tomatoes, greens, beans,
eggplants, artichokes, peppers, herbs and more! Readers will find
suggestions on how to grow Italian vegetables in most North
American climates, and how to prepare these fresh veggies with more
than 25 recipes for antipasti, soups, sauces and sides--from a
delicious classic marinara to bread pudding with artichokes--and
even preserves. Mouthwatering photos throughout evoke the flavors
of these delectable vegetables and dishes, and highlights Italian
specialties, such as the greens that grow wild on Italy's
hillsides. With a new preface by Creasy, as well as updated
recommendations, this book continues to be a trusted resource.
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Michael Browne
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Stonypath Days
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Stephen Bann, Ian Hamilton Finlay
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A companion to Midway, this is the second volume of letters of Ian
Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), the leading Scottish poet, artist,
sculptor, and garden designer. His garden at Stonypath, now called
Little Sparta has been described as the only truly original garden
created since 1945. These letters to and from Finlay's friend, the
English poet and scholar Stephen Bann, center on the initial
development of the garden near Edinburgh. They cover Finlay's turn
away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design and the
thinking behind, and consequences of, this development.
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