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Hardscaping: How to Use Structures, Pathways, Patios & Ornaments in Your Garden

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HARDSCAPING: HOW TO USE STRUCTURES, PATHWAYS, PATIOS & ORNAMENTS IN YOUR GARDEN is for the gardener who would embellish a garden with more than plants. Use structures from arbors to walls and pools to display a garden's variety, create pockets of unique atmosphere, and provide access with a title which offers the basics on how to best consider and incorporate 'hardscaping' into a garden's principles. Color photos throughout provide examples of successful integration while an easy format covers different styles and pro/con ideas for change.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This book is loaded with beautiful photos of garden pathways, patios and structures. Good use of before, after and during construction pictures. Great design lessons. I'll be referring to this design book often.

I absolutely adore this book. The photos are glorious, and there are plenty of them. It is especially pleasing to see the "before" and "after" pictures, and to realize that even my own neglected yard could look good.

The idea of separating an outdoor space into separate "rooms" is a revelation. Even with a fairly small backyard, we can express three or four distinct themes.

This is a well-written, thoughtful, fun, and beautiful book; it refreshes my spirit and engenders creativity.

Well, it isn't really the easy way, but with excellent photos of gardens with hardscaping and without hardscaping, it is easy to see how important the addition of none plant items are to make a more beautiful space. Practical information is given as well.