The Perennial Gardener's Design Primer
[United States] : Storey Publishing, LLC, 2012.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)
Turn your outdoor landscape into a rich, living canvas of color and texture. Encouraging experimentation, Stephanie Cohen and Nancy J. Ondra show you how to plan a garden that incorporates unique combinations of plants to achieve stunning effects. With an overview of garden design fundamentals and 20 sample garden plans, Cohen and Ondra will inspire you to play with creative juxtapositions of vibrant hues and subtle textures. Let your imagination run wild as you create your own unique and original garden designs. Put Perennials in Their Place! Stephanie Cohen and Nancy Ondra are both thoroughly obsessed with everything about gardens and gardening-with digging, planting ,designing, and creating great canvases of living color and texture. In this book they generously share both their passion and their knowledge about garden design. Their encouraging words, based on practical experience and the belief that there is more than one right way to create a garden, boost confidence and promote experimentation. After all, Stephanie builds her garden combinations around harmonious colors and contrasting flower forms, whereas Nan's love for colorful foliage leads her to feature dramatically contrasting leaf colors and textures. Along with design basics, they present 20 garden plans, as well as the before-and-after stories of gardens they've created for themselves and their families. Part One: Perennial Design Demystified 1 Getting Started 2 Selecting Your Perennials 3 Exploring Perennial Partners 4 From Dream to Reality 5 It's All in the Details Part Two: Putting Perennials to Work 6 Problem-Solving with Perennials 7 Creative Color Effects 8 A Year of Perennials 9 Gardens for Special Effects Part Three: From Theory to Practice 10 Building a Border from Scratch 11 Expanding an Existing Garden 12 Reworking an Old Garden Appendix: USDA Hardiness Zone Map, Planning Chart, Recommended Reading, Please Don't Eat the Delphiniums!, Acknowledgments, Photo and Garden Design Credits Index
ISBN:
9781612122717
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.