John Brookes' Natural Landscapes - Hardcover

Brookes, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789419955 ISBN 13: 9780789419958

Publisher: DK Pub.,1998., 1998

Synopsis

John Brookes, one of the world's most influential garden designers, is leading a quiet revolution, and he is encouraging you to join in. In Natural Landscapes, high maintenance borders and manicured lawns give way to a host of more natural plantings and decorative treatments. Inspired by a series of fascinating garden case histories, John Brookes explores ways to combine native vegetation and materials with exotic plans and show how to produce spectacular effects in keeping with your locale. Brookes also provides indispensable practical advice on how to work in harmony with nature at every stage of your garden's development, from the basic design and selection of materials for hard features, to choosing and positioning plan communities, and introducing garden art. Just as John Brookes set the standard for garden design books in the early 1980s with The Garden Book, his Natural Landscapes is the trend-setting title for landscape enthusiasts old and new.

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Review:

The low-maintenance gardens presented in this gorgeous tome span a wide range of climates, cultural influences, and natural landscapes. Brookes, one of Britain's preeminent landscape designers, is careful to point out that he's no purist: his approach is "to mix introduced species with the wild ... I prefer this approach--as opposed to one that is totally true to nature and creates an ecologically correct plant association for a given area--because it gives me more flexibility." But even plant purists will be attracted to the flowing forms of Brookes' gardens, divided here by climate. His plans are simple and easy to read, and directions are given for the ponds, gravel plantings, and pathways that give certain of his landscapes a clean, inviting look. It's a great browsing book, with valuable design insights on every page, and an overarching sense of the romance of nature.

About this edition

• Publisher: DK Pub.,1998.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0789419955
• ISBN 13: 9780789419958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192