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Design the Perfect Landscape for Your Home - In 12 Simple Steps!
Let Janet Macunovich's practical approach to design help you
transform your yard and garden into the landscape of your dreams!
New homeowners and first - time landscapers will love this
specific, easy-to-understand method. Experienced gardeners will
appreciate the professional advice and helpful tips for improving
their yards and gardens. Whatever your experience, this book will
help you avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes. Most important,
it will teach you how to customize a landscape design unique to
your needs.
This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to
teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the
award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design,
argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax,
grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to
learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings
of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to
enable ourselves to avoid profound aesthetic and environmental
mistakes. Offering examples that range across thousands of years
and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural
landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape
authors-Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law
Olmsted, Lawrence Halprin-and of less well known pioneers,
including Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Danish landscape
artist C. Th. Sorensen. She discusses instances of great landscape
designers using landscape fluently, masterfully, and sometimes
cynically. And, in a probing analysis of the many meanings of
landscape, Spirn shows how one person's ideal landscape may be
another's nightmare, how Utopian landscapes can be dark. There is
danger when we lose the connection between a place and our
understanding of it, Spirn warns, and she calls for change in the
way we shape our environment, based on the notions of nature as a
set of ideas and landscape as the expression of action and ideas in
place.
What style to give a garden and how best to lay it out are
perennial puzzles for creators of gardens. Gardener/designer Robert
Mallet shows how the basic elements of design line, scale,
distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations can open the
viewer s outlook toward broad perspectives or, conversely, can lock
us up in a cage. Reviewing all these elements, Mallet explains what
really works, offering a range of practical ideas that can be
adapted to visually enlarge space and liberate the mind. He
illustrates his ideas in 160 beautiful photographs and the skillful
drawings of architect Yves Poinsot. Mallet was for over twenty
years in charge of Le Bois des Moutiers, a park created by his
grandfather in Normandy, one of the most beautiful gardens in
France, where he was able to put his ideas to the test within the
context of a masterpiece of scenic design."
With this book I would like to share and give inspiration,
experience and knowledge on all aspects of perennial plants in
landscape architecture, garden design and horticulture. It gives
the reader a solid foundation and keys to successful design,
cultivation and propagation of perennial plants and is equally
useful to the professional landscape architect, the professional
nurseryman and the passionate gardener.
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