Authors Jeff and Marilyn Cox present a complete workbook for garden transformation with ways for readers to change their landscape from sterile and boring to lush and vividly alive. Includes detailed instructions on doing everything from making a natural path, garden pool or wildwood meadow to custom-coloring concrete and aging wood. 80 full-color photos; 75 illustrations.
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"Natural" landscaping has recently enjoyed a renaissance, becoming a major trend among English and American gardeners. In this informative and attractive book, the Coxes, authors of Flowers for All Seasons ( LJ 2/1/88) and The Perennial Garden ( LJ 9/15/85) present their ideas for creating ornamental gardens inspired by natural landscapes. In addition to describing the basic principles of garden design, they offer plans and suggestions for using natural and manufactured elements in specific situations, showing, for example, how to plant miniature woods. As the authors consider regional variations in climate, soils, etc., this useful book is recommended for gardening collections, which should also have Ken Druse's The Natural Garden (Crown, 1989).
- Richard Shot well, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Richard Shot well, Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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For the first eight years of my life, I was a suburban kid in Manhasset, New York. Then we moved to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania where I learned to hunt, fish, eat wild foods, and swim in pristine waters of spring-fed creeks. Then I lived in Manhattan. So I'm at home just about anywhere. My experiences in the country, though, were the most important, leading me through newspaper and magazine work to Organic Gardening magazine, where I developed a love of gardening and landscaping. Now I'm a wine writer for many magazines and the restaurant reviewer for Northern California's newspaper of record, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, here in the heart of the Wine Country. I'm also a contributing editor to The Wine News and Horticulture magazines. I've written 18 books on food, wine, and gardening,--many of which are available on Amazon.
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This review is from: Landscaping With Nature: Using Nature's Designs to Plan Your Yard (Hardcover)
Landscaping with nature is a nicely organized book that helps you create a plan for a natural landscape. It recommends plants and designs based on your area. The plans are not too elaborate and not too simple and the plant lists, both native and convergent species, are extensive.
All in all, Landscaping with Nature was exactly the book I was looking for to slightly civilize the natural landscape of my property.
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Lots of information,
This review is from: Landscaping With Nature: Using Nature's Designs to Plan Your Yard (Hardcover)
Book arrived quickly and safely. Lots of useful information that I can refer back to again and again.
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