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Garden planners, home gardeners, and landscape designers will be turning to this
exceptional book for expert advice from the world’s leading garden makers including Beth Chatto, Piet Oudolf, James Van Sweden, and Julie Mois Messervy. In this beautifully illustrated collection, Noël Kingsbury gathers their ideas on the entire design process — from choosing a garden style through planning its layout to maintaining its look over time. Encouraging a fluid approach to creativity, Gardens by Design will assist designers at all levels to understand the mechanics of plant combinations, to seek out cutting-edge and exquisite plants, and to nurture their garden’s development, growth, and maintenance over time.
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very basic Althought the photos are beautiful and the book does give some overview of the work of some prominent designers in the field today, the advice given is very basic. It’s sort of on the line of “create an axis” kind of advice. Still, it’s a pretty coffee table book, and something to look at when inspiration is lacking, or a winter dreaming book.
Garden designs Now this is a book that every serious garden designer needs to read.To quote Penelope Hobhouse in her Forward, “This is much more than a how-to reference book: it looks at principles of design in considerable depth.” Further, “…he(the author)allows the contributors (world class designers)to express their own philosophies and the reader is enriched by their individuality.”The many, many photos alone in this book are as informative to the viewer as the text is to the reader. This book is well worth the price.
I just received this book (in great shape by the way, and prompt!). I was thrilled to see the beautiful photographs throughout. He starts with a forward by Penelope Hobhouse and and continues with articles by the likes of John Brookes, Beth Chatto, and Piet Odoulf (just to name a few).I would recommend this book to anyone who is planning a garden, interested in wildlife gardens, meadow gardening , structure in the garden – just about everyone who loves to garden!
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