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Perennial Gardens: Great Ideas and Projects for Glorious Color Year After Year (Better Homes & Gardens) Better Homes and Gardens Books
Better Homes and Gardens, 2001
Inspiring: 15 gardens representing all climates. Hardworking: how to build handsome hardscape features. Practical: how to plant, maintain, and multiply perennials. Easy plant identification: common and botanical names cross-referenced; detailed descriptions. Dozens of tips that ensure perennials flourish year after year. 150 photographs of richly hued plants and garden settings.
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The Garden Trellis: Designs to Build and Vines to Cultivate 3 reviews Ferris Cook
Artisan, 1996
Building a Garden Trellis
This is a very nice book with excellent illustrations and descriptions of different climbing vines that can be used on a trellis. It also includes pictures of nine trellises that you can build yourself, with the dimensions for each one. A background in woodworking is helpful. The instructions ...
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Garden Design Details 4 reviews Arne Maynard, Anne De Verteuil
Collins Design, 2004
Insightful and understandable write...
+ Ideas Abound + **Inspired and Conceivable Designs**
The book describes function and meaning of landscape elements insightfully yet digested and understandable. This book is useful for both beginner and advance landscape designer. In addition, gists and tips in this book are also useful for public space and urban designer. Picture are well arrange ...
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Your House, Your Garden: A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design 6 reviews Gordon Hayward
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
This book is so good I am buying a second copy
+ One of the best + A Map for a magnificient yard + American Horticultural Society Book Award
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The Essential Garden Design Workbook 7 reviews Rosemary Alexander
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2004
Excellent for even experienced landscape professionals
+ Garden Design + For the professional as well as the do-it-yourselfer... + A good and very practical garden design book + Excellent presentation
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World of Garden Design: Inspiring Ideas from Around the Globe to Your Backyard 4 reviews Susan Dooley, Editors of Garden Design Magazine
Chronicle Books, 2000
Beautiful photos from around the world
+ Global Gardening Inspirations + Beautiful, but...?
This wonderful book takes you on a tour of some of the world's most beautiful gardens and shows you how to bring ideas from them home to your own space. It is divided into geographic areas including Italy, Britain, France, Japan and the tropics. In each section the unique style and methods of the ...
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Garden Design - Sylvia Crowe 1 review Sylvia Crowe
Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C, 2003
THIS ONE IS FOR THE HARD-CORE GARDENER.
This volume was first published in England in 1958 with the American Edition published in 1959. This book is unlike the contemporary garden design books by the same author. First, the book consists primarily of text, well written text, I grant you, but text never-the-less. The pictures are in ...
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Garden design 5 reviews Robin Williams
Readers Digest, 1995
An Excellent Idea Book On Garden Design
+ Excellent Book on Garden Design + One of the most comprehensive garden design books! + Great book - love it !! + Great design and structural source!
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The Garden Design Book 7 reviews Staff Gardendesign
Regan Books, 1997
Nicely organized with alot of vaiety and food for thought
+ A coffee table book worth browsing
I liked this book very much. It had gorgeous pictures and an interesting way to look at gardening. It showed me things about my own style of gardening that I was doing but not really aware of what exactly or why exactly I was doing it. It was inspiring and motivating.
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Herb Garden Design Faith H. Swanson, Virginia B. Rady
UPNE, 1984
A unique and handsome book for novice and professional gardeners. The plans, with full commentary and plant lists, offer a wide range of designs easily adapted to one's own needs.
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Patio: Garden Design & Inspiration 5 reviews Jamie Durie
Allen & Unwin, 2006
Must-read for garden design
+ Best Inspiring Book for Outdoor Design + This is one of my favorite inspiration books + A more elegant modern
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Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook 8 reviews Jennifer Bartley
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006
Gardener's inspiration
+ book review + Beautiful, enlightening AND practical + Something I've wanted for a while... + Great Gift for Garden Loving Friend!
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Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting 7 reviews Ray Rogers, Richard W. Hartlage
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007
Gorgeous book and inspired arrangements
+ Great Book for Planning Color Choices In Garden + A great reference book for selecting the right plants and right pots for your garden + pots in the Garden-a Northern Ireland view + Pure inspiration
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Planting Design Illustrated 20 reviews Gang Chen
Outskirts Press, Inc., 2007
Gang Chen's creates a workbook for garden planning
+ Illuminating and Comforting + Great Book for The Novice or Professional + Descriptive and Very Informative + Fantastic content - stirs the imagination
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Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior ... 3 reviews
Wiley, 1999
Essential Resource for the Healing Garden Designer
+ Aplicaciones para la salud
Beautiful organization, research examples to support common-sense recommendations, case studies with pictures, this superb book is the first stop for the healing garden designer. The case studies and design recommendations are grouped by health care setting, which makes the reading more focused. ...
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Garden Design Workbook 1 review John Brookes
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), 1998
Garden Design 101
This is a great intro to garden design drafting. It covers at a high-level how to draw a garden design and some basic principles of structure. If you are wanting to learn how to draw designs for your garden, this is a good place to start. If you have experience in garden design, another book may ...
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The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces 3 reviews Joseph Cali
Kodansha International, 2004
A wonderful book!
+ A Complete Work of Art + A fine addition to your Japanese garden collection
This book is itself a work of art, the best I've ever seen in the field. The photographs convey the quiet, peaceful, beauty of small Zen gardens so well, that it is a joy to look at. Mr. Cali's text clearly introduces and explains both the historical background and the philosophical/aesthetic ...
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Home Planners Complete Book of Landscape Plans: 50+ Garden Designs to Transform Your Yard 3 reviews
Home Planners, 2003
Some good ideas
+ Great book!
While this book does not have comprehensive information on each plan, it still provides some interesting ideas. Additional information such as comprehensive blueprints as well as plant and material lists customized to your region is available for purchase, but I found this useful without having to ...
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Creating Japanese Gardens 3 reviews Philip Cave, Geoffrey Jellicoe
Tuttle Publishing, 1996
Great book
+ Excellent guide to creating your own Japanese garden + the book was enlightening and informative even for beginners
I was curious as to how to go about creating a Japanese garden, and this book not only answered my questions, it gave me inspiration with its pages of gorgeous photographs. A must have for any aspiring Japanese gardener, or just for anyone interested in Japan.
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New Complete Guide to Landscaping: Design, Plant, Build (Better Homes and Gardens(R)) 5 reviews Better Homes and Gardens
Better Homes and Gardens, 2002
Great guide for new gardeners
+ Beautiful, book of knowledge and ideas! + Great book for your bookshelf! + REALLY IS COMPLETE!!! + greatest landscaping book I've seen so far
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