The Garden Design Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to Garden Materials and Structures [Paperback]

David Stevens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999

A design-oriented guide to choosing and using garden materials. Entries cover every dimension of the garden and include "hard" and "soft" landscaping materials. A section shows how to age and match up garden materials, along with a guide to garden restoration and maintenance.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Conran Octopus (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1850299684
• ISBN-13: 978-1850299684
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 9.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,397,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource of hardscape elements for the garden!, January 22, 1999

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Peg Prizer ([e-mail]) (Doylestown, PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Garden Design Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to Garden Materials and Structures (Paperback)

As a landscape architect, I find this book is an excellent resource for hardscape ideas for the garden. The book is divided into the basics planes of the garden ... floors, boundaries & dividers, overhead structures, etc. The wonderful photographics are invaluable as well as the discriptions telling the history, uses and construction of the site elements. I would recommend this book to professionals and weekend gardeners for its inspiration and knowledge.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential is right..., August 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Garden Design Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to Garden Materials and Structures (Paperback)

I have owned this book for several years now and still use it regularly as a design reference. The examples and illustrations are pretty much all classics whether historic, traditional, or contemporary, and always seem fresh to my eye each time I pick up the book.