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Hardscaping: How to Use Structures, Pathways, Patios & Ornaments in Your Garden
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Product Description
The flowers are blossoming, the foliage looks fantastic, and the plant combinations are gorgeous. So why doesn’t your garden satisfy? The problem just might be a lack of hardscaping—structures like arbors, paving, walls, fountains, pools, and decks that delineate, ornament, animate, and add dimensionality to a garden. Using both his own and others’ layouts, a top garden designer reveals why these structures are so important and how to incorporate them into the landscape. Each chapter examines a specific principle (creating balance, instilling motion, establishing focal points), and features illuminating discussions of style, function, application, and plantings, as well as magnificent projects. Bring fresh life to a garden with a curvaceous patio with a rill, a sculpture plinth on a terraced platform, or a Victorian “room.”
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #884573 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Gardens consisting solely of flowering and foliage plants may be lovely, but they may also lack a sense of unification or completion. One way of introducing structure, interest, balance, and focus to a botanically dense landscape is through the application of hardscape elements. Whether it's a simple concrete birdbath emerging from a groundcover bed or an elaborate masonry walkway meandering through a perennial border, such structural ornamentation can be incorporated into gardens of any style and size. Giving straightforward advice and instruction, Davitt guides gardeners through the function and purpose of paths, walls, fountains, arbors, and other garden structures; helpfully suggests companion plantings; and provides dramatic before-and-after color photographs to illustrate the power of hardscape to transform and improve garden settings. Carol Haggas
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Customer Reviews
An easy format covers different styles and pro/con ideas for change.
HARDSCAPING: HOW TO USE STRUCTURES, PATHWAYS, PATIOS & ORNAMENTS IN YOUR GARDEN is for the gardener who would embellish a garden with more than plants. Use structures from arbors to walls and pools to display a garden's variety, create pockets of unique atmosphere, and provide access with a title which offers the basics on how to best consider and incorporate 'hardscaping' into a garden's principles. Color photos throughout provide examples of successful integration while an easy format covers different styles and pro/con ideas for change.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Hardscaping the easy way
Well, it isn't really the easy way, but with excellent photos of gardens with hardscaping and without hardscaping, it is easy to see how important the addition of none plant items are to make a more beautiful space. Practical information is given as well.
