Download or read book Cultivating Garden Style written by Rochelle Greayer and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Get ready, the garden you’ve always longed for is at your fingertips. With images and ideas, Cultivating Garden Style releases your inner designer and helps you create a landscape that is yours and yours alone!” —Ivette Soler, author of The Edible Front Yard In Cultivating Garden Style, Rochelle Greayer shares ways to create outdoor areas that are charming, comfortable, appealing, and reflect individuality. It features twenty-three unique garden styles accompanied by advice on how to recreate the look. Simple step-by-step projects, like how to make a macramé plant hanger, help the reader personalize the space. Helpful tips and tricks, including how to pick the right tree and pick the right combination of plants and containers, offer essential lessons in gardening and design. More than 1,500 dazzling color photographs give the book a visual punch.

Download or read book Bring the Outdoors In written by Shane Powers and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides twenty-two ideas for incorporating elements of the garden into home decor, featuring step-by-step instructions for projects--including planters, sculptures, and wreaths--that use both live and dried plant materials.

Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Download or read book RHS Design Outdoors written by Matthew Keightley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Designer Matt Keightley's first book is a thing of beauty and a valuable source of design inspiration - a stylish guide to a stylish garden.' - Gardens Illustrated Do you want your outdoor space to look as stylish and as well designed as your home? RHS Design Outdoors will give you the ideas and know-how you need to make that happen. Award-winning designer Matt Keightley has curated a collection of 35 gardens, created either by him or by other leading contemporary designers, that will provide the inspiration to transform your outdoor space. Gardeners features include award-winning designers Jo Thompson, Tom Stuart Smith, Tony Woods, Charlotte Rowe and Andrew Wilson. For each case study there is a detailed plan, information on the plants and materials used and a wealth of gorgeous photography by leading garden photographer Marianne Majerus. The designs are organized into five categories: Showstoppers at Home - high-design concepts that are nonetheless achievable; Family-friendly - gardens that incorporate play areas and socialising; Minimalist - spaces with larger areas of hard landscaping and bold, restrained planting; Plants First - gardens where more than half of the outdoor space is planted; and Other Spaces - roof terraces, basement areas and front gardens. This wide array of garden styles means that there is inspiration for all types of garden, and for all types of gardener.

Download or read book Complete Book of Outdoor DIY Projects written by Penny Swift and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build useful and attractive outdoor features to enhance your yard and garden, using stone, brick, wood, or water. 35 DIY projects feature step-by-step instructions and clear color photographs.

Download or read book The Essential Garden Design Workbook written by Rosemary Alexander and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Garden Design Workbook guides the reader through every stage of planning a garden — how to survey a site, how to choose landscaping materials, and how to develop planting schemes. This fully revised and updated second edition features new U.S. case studies and new photographs. Valuable tips on green gardening are new to this edition, and include how to harvest rainwater, how to design a green roof, tips on sustainable planting, and a guide to composting. Tailor-made for hands-on gardeners, the workbook approach is accessible, practical, and can be used to create a garden from scratch and to redesign an existing garden. Gardeners will find easy ways to measure large spaces, estimate the height of a tree, and find the right proportions for a deck. They'll also find tips on space, light, and color. Includes hundreds of easy-to-follow line drawings and diagrams.

Download or read book Sean Conway s Cultivating Life written by Sean J. Conway and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea book to outdoor living, by the imaginative team behind the popular television series Cultivating Life. The backyard is being transformed from an underused patch of grass into the new great room, an extension of Americans' living space. For many months of the year, it can serve as kitchen, family room, and a place to entertain friends and neighbors. Based on ideas from their television series Cultivating Life, Sean Conway and Lee Buttala show how to make outdoor living easier, with simple crafts such as making sun-print tablecloths, time-honored gardening techniques, and stylish ideas for patios and borders. The versatile projects in this book will enhance any outdoor space. An easy-to-build portable salad table is ideal for growing your favorite greens just outside the back door. A simple and inexpensive water garden adds a touch of elegance to any patio or terrace. And, with clear step-by-step instructions, woodworking projectsÑsuch as a bird feeder, a bamboo trellis, or a porch swingÑcan be tackled in a weekend. Generously illustrated with beautiful photographs, fun sidebars, and expert tips, Sean Conway's Cultivating Life will inspire readers to make their backyards refuges for enjoying life to the fullest and to make reconnecting to the land as easy as stepping out the back door.

Download or read book Do It Yourself Garden Projects and Crafts written by Wolfe Debbie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve Your Garden and Home with Easy DIY Projects and Beautiful Botanical Crafts Create your dream garden with simple bird baths, herb drying racks, and unique planters. And bring the outdoors indoors with natural fabric dyes, pressed flower paper, and herbal bouquets. DIY Garden Projects and Crafts book relies on home grown and foraged materials that will inspire creativity and capture the bounty of the seasons. The sixty practical and decorative projects for use in the garden and home include: Gardener's Tool Apron Metal garden charms Veggie Market Tote Macrame produce bag Gourd bird feeder Kirigami leather hanging planter Tomato cage plant stand Shibori Dyed Fabric Herbal lotion bars Gardener hand scrub All-purpose thyme cleaner And more! Do-It-Yourself Garden Projects and Crafts features detailed, step-by-step instructions as well as simple crafting and gardening tips that will make your projects successful.

Download or read book Small Patios written by Hazel White and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains dozens of projects for improving or creating a patio near your home, including thorough and easy-to-follow instructions, tools and materials lists, and estimates of costs and degree of difficulty.

Download or read book Terrain written by Greg Lehmkuhl and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in a historic nursery in southeast Pennsylvania, Terrain is a nationally renowned garden, home, and lifestyle brand with an entirely fresh approach to living with nature. It’s an approach that bridges the gap between home and garden, the indoors and the outdoors. An approach that embraces decorating with plants and inviting the garden into every living space. Terrain, the book, not only captures the brand’s unique and lushly appealing sensibility in over 450 beautiful photographs but also shows, in project after project, tip after tip, how to live with nature at home. Here are ideas for flower arranging beyond the expected bouquet, using branches and wild blooms, seed heads and bulbs. Ten colorful container gardens inspired by painterly palettes. Dozens of ideas for making wreaths out of vines, dried stems, evergreens, and fresh leaves and fern fronds (which you learn to preserve in glycerin). Here are secrets for forcing branches to bloom in the middle of winter. Decorating with heirloom pumpkins, including turning them into tabletop planters. Simple touches—like massing high-summer hydrangeas into weathered baskets and scattering them around the patio—and more involved projects, including taking inspiration from Scandinavia and Britain to create a truly natural Christmas. With inspiration for every season, Terrain blurs the indoors and out to bring the subtle and surprising joys of nature into our lives every day.

Download or read book From Art to Landscape written by W. Gary Smith and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden designers face some daunting questions: How do I begin the creative process? Where can I find design inspiration? How will I know if my design is successful? If you approach these questions like an artist, with an artist’s tools and ways of looking at the world, you will be able to design gardens that combine the unique character of a place with your innermost creative spirit. You’ll make inspiring gardens that have real meaning, for yourself as well as others. In this luminous volume, landscape architect and artist W. Gary Smith explores the various means that artists use—including drawing, painting, sculpture, meditation, poetry, and dance—to create personal connections with the landscape that enrich and inform garden design. Part 1 focuses on simple techniques that anyone can use to nurture creativity, unleash the imagination, and get ideas down on paper. Part 2 shows how these techniques have shaped actual design projects—with spectacular results. Throughout, the author’s friendly and encouraging voice removes the shroud of mystery surrounding the creative process and shows how even the least artistically inclined can tap into inner resources they never knew they had. Smith’s own exuberant sketches and bold paintings illuminate the path from art to landscape. Infectiously engaging and unfailingly inspiring, this eye-opening book deserves to be read and reread by anyone who aspires to master the rich and demanding art of garden design.

Download or read book Garden Style written by Jerri Farris and published by Creative Publishing International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From this simple beginning, Jerri shows you how to create a home, garden style, demonstrating commonsense principles she has developed on her own or learned along the way from friends and others. The result is a comprehensive, informative book written with unusual warmth.

Download or read book GardenWalk Buffalo written by Elizabeth Licata and published by Buffalo Heritage. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This large-format, high-quality volume offers 120 pages of words and pictures that capture the best of Garden Walk Buffalo, the largest and one of the oldest garden walks in the nation. More than 225 beautiful photographs capture highlights of all 260+ gardens on the Walk, while sidebars on the architecture and history of these exceptional Buffalo neighborhoods explain their unique ambiance. New and fascinating aspects of Garden Walk are illuminated, including behind-the-scenes stories of how the gardeners prepare for the annual weekend deluge of thousands of visitors. The book includes interviews with 27 gardeners, as well as photos of more than 80 additional gardens. There is a photo section for the gardens of Frederick Law Olmsted¿s Delaware Park, a spread on community gardens, a list of selected plants grown in Western New York (Zone 5), a history of Garden Walk Buffalo and its impact on local urban gardens and how it helps rejuvenate city streets, and even a brief bit on how to start your own garden walk.

Download or read book Garden Style Projects written by Linda Hallam and published by Better Homes & Gardens Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Simple, affordable projects bring a fresh garden motif inside.-- Dozens of practical, doable ideas for furniture, finishes, fabrics, and accessories.-- 50 projects with step-by-step instructions-- 180 color photos of real homes, rooms and gardens.

Download or read book Hellstrip Gardening written by Evelyn Hadden and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to creating a garden in such unused spaces as land beside a driveway, next to steps, or between the sidewalk and the street curb, discussing how to prepare the soil and listing the varieties of plants suitable for these conditions.

Download or read book Sustainable Garden written by Marian Boswall and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly outdoor space. Sustainable gardener Marian Boswell walks us through the process of creating and maintaining a sustainable outdoor space, offering tips, guidances and step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. Whether it's by making your own fertilisers, converting to peat-free compost, reducing your consumption of plastic, saving your own seeds or creating raised beds with reused timber, there are numerous ways - both big and small - to make a difference. This book will guide anyone hoping to take informed and intelligent decisions to make a difference, but who perhaps don't know where to begin.

Download or read book Deer Resistant Design written by Karen Chapman and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fear deer no more! The best source I’ve seen on the topic!” —Tracy DiSabato-Aust, award-winning garden designer and best-selling author Deer are one of the most common problems a gardener can face. These cute but pesky animals can quickly devour hundreds of dollars’ worth of plants. And common solutions include the use of unattractive fencing and chemicals. In Deer-Resistant Design, Karen Chapman offers another option—intentional design choices that result in beautiful gardens that coexist with wildlife. Deer-Resistant Design showcases real home gardens across North America—from a country garden in New Jersey to a hilltop hacienda in Texas—that have successfully managed the presence of deer. Each homeowner also shares their top ten deer-resistant plants, all welcome additions to a deer-challenged gardeners shopping list. A chapter on deer-resistant container gardens provides suggestions for making colorful, captivating, and imaginative containers. Lushly illustrated and filled with practical advice and inspiring design ideas, Deer-Resistant Design is packed with everything you need to confidently tackle this challenging problem.