Easy Garden Design: 12 Simple Steps to Creating Successful Gardens and Landscapes - Softcover

Macunovich, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882667912 ISBN 13: 9780882667911

Publisher: Storey Books, 1992

Synopsis

Outlines a twelve-step planning process for creating a successful garden design, from setting goals and assessing a site to choosing a focal point

About this title

About the Author

Author of several books on gardening, including Easy Landscape Design, Easy Garden Design, and the all-time favorite, Caring for Perennials, Janet Macunovich owns a landscape and design company called Perennial Favorites. A garden designer and lecturer, she also teaches classes in garden design and maintenance techniques in Michigan, where she lives and has been called "the lady with the flower house, the one with no lawn."

Janet has taught at Cranbrook House and Garden Auxiliary, Detroit Garden Center, Perennial Plant Association, and Matthaei Botanical Gardens. She has been a featured presenter of such workshops as "One-Hour Month Gardening" for over 18 years, averaging 1,000 students per year. Janet's weekly gardening column appears in the Detroit News and she also shares her knowledge through radio programs in the Michigan area on a regular basis.

From the Back Cover

Whether you are designing your first garden or you are a professional landscape designer, this book should be the one you reach for first! In 12 simple steps, the garden takes shape before your very eyes -- even before you buy the first plant!

In lively format and with encouraging helpfulness, author Janet Macunovich takes you through this simple, no-fail process. Anticipating your questions at every point, it's like having a design professional at your elbow! Full of understandable graphics, Easy Garden Design takes the guesswork out of visualizing how your garden will look when it's finished -- or whether it will fit into its setting the way you hope it will. Trial and Error is avoided and Success is guaranteed with this "one-step-at-a-time" approach!

Responsible for taking the mystery out of garden design, author Janet Macunovich is a popular garden designer, teacher, and lecturer. Her approach is based on years of experience working directly with home gardeners and contractors. She lives in Waterford, Michigan, where she owns her own business, Perennial Favorites.

Reviews

Macunovich, a Michigan landscape designer, addresses this book to the beginning landscape professional and to home gardeners with "a year or more of dirt on their knees," who recognize the value of investing time and energy in planning their gardens. Her 12-step approach emphasizes the preliminary work of assessing the purpose of the garden, the site, and the financial and physical resources of the person who will maintain the planting. Only then does she introduce the complexities of plant selection, color theory, focal points and frames, and other design elements, illustrated with sample checklists, sketches, and plans. She also explains how to interpret sun/shade designations on nursery pot tags and to analyze entries in plant encyclopedias for characteristics that contribute to the design. She concludes with a very up-to-date bibliography. Highly recommended for public libraries.
- Beth Clewis, Prince William P.L., Va.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882667912
• ISBN 13: 9780882667911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Art Pam