Integrating practical advice with ingenious design ideas, an innovative guide to gardening explains how to create a rich landscape to suit the needs of every member of the family, offering simple directions for creating furniture and play equipment, tips on hardy plants, and landscape design projects. Garden Bk Club & Country Homes & Garden Bk Club.
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Got kids in your chrysanthemums? A swing set in your rhododendrons? This colorful, engaging book brings practical suggestions and beautiful illustrations to bear on the often thorny task of blending small children with serious gardening. Bunny Guinness's solutions don't simply involve achieving maximum separation of kids from flowers, but creating an aesthetic whole where children are welcome and enchanted. "Areas of long grass for stalking games," for example, are among her ingredients for a successful kid's garden. Guinness won a gold medal at the 1994 Chelsea Flower Show for her "Wind in the Willows" design, and her empathy with the youthful imagination has produced wonderful places of mystery and beauty achievable by the most harried of parents.
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Transforming even the tiniest outdoor patch into a functional, cozy place is Bunny Guinness's aim in Creating a Family Garden: Magical Outdoor Spaces for All Ages. Plans for myriad needs, including those of children (playhouses, tree houses, play areas and gardens), animals ( pets and wildlife) and adults (for eating, entertaining and relaxing) are offered with photos of each finished project. Also covered are the planning of water features, using garden furniture to best advantage, creating topiary and managing habitats, whether wetland, woodland or urban. A list of U.S. suppliers is included.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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At play in the country garden,
By Jim Tolpin (Port Townsend, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating a Family Garden: Magical Outdoor Spaces for All Ages (Hardcover)
There are endless books about landscaping, and many about English "country" gardens. But this was my favorite because it was not just about the plants and landscape, but how to play amongst them. That, to me, is what family gardening is ultimately about.
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Enchanting book,
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This review is from: Creating a Family Garden: Magical Outdoor Spaces for All Ages (Hardcover)
I generally do not read garden books, just get ideas from the pictures, but I have read it cover to cover and keep it close at hand to examine the pictures in detail. It is a good combination of fanciful creations that are out of reach for the ordinary yard, and things that anyone can do themselves. There are ideas for children's games that can be incorporated into the yard, fancy rabbit hutches, and other projects as well as a picture of an incredible garden show entry. I have enjoyed this book more than any other garden book I can remember.
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Spectacularly beautiful gardens, very complete with how-to's,
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This review is from: Creating a Family Garden: Magical Outdoor Spaces for All Ages (Hardcover)
Gorgeous family gardens, not for children only. Bunny Guinness has superb taste and superior design ability, coupled with a solid knowledge of plant material. I have given this book three times as important gifts to very close friends and it's always bowled them over, too. Actually, this may be my best impulse purchase ever. . .
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