Designing with Grasses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing with Grasses write by Neil Lucas. This book was released on 2011-01-12. Designing with Grasses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grasses Offer so Much More than the flat, green lawns beneath our feet. In the garden, spikelets of Briza media flutter in the slightest breeze, tall-stemmed Stipa gigantea makes a beguiling divider, and pennisetums glow like fireworks with the sun at their backs. When chosen wisely and used with care, grasses can endow the garden with showstopping appeal---requiring remarkably little work in return. Neil Lucas explains how to bring the magic of grasses to even the smallest of gardens. Inspired by the great American prairies, African savannah and other wild spaces, he shows how to perfect the balance between grasses and other plants, choose sustainable lawn alternatives that virtually care for themselves, and showcase the elegant lines and intriguing textures of grasses to glorious effect. Planting grasses in the right place is critical, and Lucas lists top performers for drought, waterside, containers, shade and more. Along the way, he explains how grasses contribute to a greener world through their use in rain gardens, green roofs and for erosion control. With an extensive directory profiling more than 450 gardenworthy grasses, rushes and sedges, this lavishly illustrated volume offers gardeners a world of possibilities.
Gardening with Grasses
Gardening with Grasses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gardening with Grasses write by Michael King. This book was released on 1998. Gardening with Grasses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes a selected plant catalogue of annual grasses; perennial grasses, rushes and sedges; and bamboos.
Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses
Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses write by . This book was released on 2010-01-01. Bloom's Best Perennials and Grasses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes more than four hundred perennials and grasses, providing information on each plant's origins, preferred conditions, and planting zones.
Designing with Plants
Designing with Plants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Designing with Plants write by Piet Oudolf. This book was released on 2009-11-02. Designing with Plants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Piet Oudolf's gardens excite the senses and stir the emotions. Representing a giant step forward from the conventional colour-themed border, this new approach to gardening gives just as much emphasis to form, texture, light and movement as it does to colour. Individual plants are used as harmonious elements in luxuriant and atmospheric plantings. Written in collaboration with Noël Kingsbury, Designing with Plants is an informative and visually breathtaking study of Piet Oudolf's planting theory and practice, and it provides all the advice necessary to create the same effects in your own garden.Beginning with the building blocks of planting design, a visual sourcebook of Planting Palettes illustrates some of the huge choice available in terms of form, texture and colour. The following chapter explains, with the use of planting plans and diagrams, how to combine these basic elements to create stunning and sculptural planting schemes. Theory is put into practice in Planting Moods in which stunning photography demonstrates how to create a particular feeling or atmosphere, and Year-Round Planting emphasizes the importance of choosing plants to give value throughout the seasons so that they contribute to the garden in death as well as in life. Rounding off with a detailed directory of key plants, Designing with Plants is destined to become an inspiration to all gardeners who wish to create, in Piet's words, 'an impression and an expression of nature'.
Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces
Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces write by Jan Johnsen. This book was released on 2019-04-02. Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape—boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.” - Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen’s new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to “co-creating with nature” will have you saying, “I can do that!’ This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using ‘real world’ solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as ‘Soften a Corner”, “Paint it Black”, and “Hide and Reveal”.
