A step-by-step manual for successful garden and landscape design. Easy-to-master principles and techniques follow a chronological order that helps readers access their growing and site conditions, select an appropriate focal point within the garden, and combine plantings that accent, frame, and complement those focal points. 60 drawings.
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Macunovich, a Michigan landscape designer, addresses this book to the beginning landscape professional and to home gardeners with "a year or more of dirt on their knees," who recognize the value of investing time and energy in planning their gardens. Her 12-step approach emphasizes the preliminary work of assessing the purpose of the garden, the site, and the financial and physical resources of the person who will maintain the planting. Only then does she introduce the complexities of plant selection, color theory, focal points and frames, and other design elements, illustrated with sample checklists, sketches, and plans. She also explains how to interpret sun/shade designations on nursery pot tags and to analyze entries in plant encyclopedias for characteristics that contribute to the design. She concludes with a very up-to-date bibliography. Highly recommended for public libraries.
- Beth Clewis, Prince William P.L., Va.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Beth Clewis, Prince William P.L., Va.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Includes site assessment and combinations of plantings for workable, attractive gardens.
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A Great Tool to Focus Gardening Priorities,
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This review is from: Easy Garden Design: 12 Simple Steps to Creating Successful Gardens and Landscapes (Paperback)
Easy Garden Design helped me to think through the reasons I wanted a garden, and how to tell if the finished product is successful. My whole landscape was simply too overwhelming to think about or budget for, so now I've learned to design and complete one garden area at a time. Previously, I've taken a scattershot approach and was unhappy with the results. Now I have an overall landscape plan and am proceeding with confidence.. An excellent resource!
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This review is from: Easy Garden Design: 12 Simple Steps to Creating Successful Gardens and Landscapes (Paperback)
Very good book to use as a workbook for designing a garden, but not enough on it's own. I am working on designing a landscape for our home, and I use this book primarily, along with 'the well designed mixed garden', and 'your house, your garden'. a book about local plants is also very beneficial. Using all of these gives me confidence in doing something I have never done before.
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This review is from: Easy Garden Design: 12 Simple Steps to Creating Successful Gardens and Landscapes (Paperback)
This is an outstanding tool for both the beginner and advanced gardener. Janet has a way of explaining things in an order that helps prevent mistakes caused by over enthusiasm, and still feels like a game.It is easy to read and use, doesn't feel like homework to work through.
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