Smith & Hawken: Garden Ornament - Hardcover

Smith, Linda Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761112022 ISBN 13: 9780761112020

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 1998

Synopsis

Amid the naturally decorative bounty of flowers and shrubs, the right ornament in the right place can transform a garden. Generously illustrated throughout in full-color photographs, Garden Ornament is a sourcebook of inspiration and practical ideas. Garden Ornament covers everything a gardener needs to know to add magical finishing touches to the hard-earned work of digging and planting. Here are decorative ornaments (status, obelisks, sundials), and working ornaments (flowerpots, bee skeps, scarecrows). Detailed information on materials and their care, from classic cast stone to contemporary cast resin. Design menus for cultural effect and information on lighting a garden, on seasonal ornamentation and on exploring the irreverent.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Using the Power of Ornament to Perfect Nature's Beauty

Whether it is fine art, folk art, or our own whimsical creation, the right ornament in the right spot can transform a garden, sharpening its focus, adding structure and permanence, and layering in references to other times and places.

Here, from LINDA JOAN SMITH, is all a gardener needs to know to put the magical finishing touches on that place we call our garden.

Decorative & Working Ornament

From antique sundials and marble statuary to birdhouses, bee skeps, and scarecrows. Reproductions and the real thing. Outdoor materials and how to care for them, including materials that weather all season.

Exterior Design

Creating a sense of time and place-French accents, romantic England, a Renaissance air. Plus the fundamentals of creating movement and direction, drawing the eye, altering perceived space.

Making the Garden Yours

Creating your own ornaments. The artistic, the quirky, the personal. Mementos and memorials. Tweaking tradition.

From the Inside Flap

An armillary sphere, patina'd with age. A rustic thatch-roofed birdhouse. A softened and pale marble figure, or a colorful Victorian-era gazing globe, reflecting the garden like a funhouse mirror. Even amid the naturally decorative bounty of flowers and shrubs, it is ornament that seasons the garden with mystery, or makes us laugh, or sets us to contemplation. Generously illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, GARDEN ORNAMENT is a source of both inspiration and practical ideas. It explains how to select the right ornament, how to integrate ornament into each setting, and how to use ornament and its many subtle qualities to instill a sense of depth and resonance in the garden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0761112022
• ISBN 13: 9780761112020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 135