Classic Garden Plans - Hardcover

Stuart, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711223866 ISBN 13: 9780711223868

Publisher: Timber Press, 2004

Synopsis

Offers a store of garden plans inspired by some of the bewitching and famous gardens in the world. Each garden is given a historical context and its best qualities, best seasons and times of day are explained. Planting plans given for each scheme with shopping list and suggestions for adapting each plan to limitations of gi

About this title

Book Description:

For any gardener who is unsure of what to grow or how to put plants together in coherent planting schemes, this book provides answers. Many of the garden plans and plantings included are simplified versions of those created by great gardeners such as Vita Sackville-West, Margery Fish, and Piet Oudolf. The author's extensive knowledge of period plants, and how they were put together to look beautiful, has enabled him to re-create historical classics, like the Renaissance parterre or the Monet water garden, from contemporary planting lists and plans. Planting plans are given for each design, with a shopping list that can be taken to a nursery. The book includes suggestions for adapting each plan to the limitations of a given space, and how to adapt the shopping list, as well.

About the Author:

David Stuart earned his doctorate at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and went on to a career in horticulture and landscape design. He was curator of Longstock Park Gardens for 14 years, during which period it held the national collection of Buddleja, a plant that he first grew to screen tennis courts. He now works as an independent horticultural consultant. He has judged shows for the Royal Horticultural Society and is a committee member and council member of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.

About this edition

• Publisher: Timber Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0711223866
• ISBN 13: 9780711223868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Illustrator: Profusely Illustrated