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Hardscaping: How to Use Structures, Pathways, Patios & Ornaments in Your Garden - Hardcover

Davitt, Keith

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9781402718762: Hardscaping: How to Use Structures, Pathways, Patios & Ornaments in Your Garden
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1402718764 ISBN 13: 9781402718762
Publisher: Union Square & Co., 2006

Synopsis

The flowers are blossoming, the foliage looks fantastic, and the plant combinations are gorgeous. So why doesn’t your garden satisfy? The problem just might be a lack of hardscaping—structures like arbors, paving, walls, fountains, pools, and decks that delineate, ornament, animate, and add dimensionality to a garden. Using both his own and others’ layouts, a top garden designer reveals why these structures are so important and how to incorporate them into the landscape. Each chapter examines a specific principle (creating balance, instilling motion, establishing focal points), and features illuminating discussions of style, function, application, and plantings, as well as magnificent projects. Bring fresh life to a garden with a curvaceous patio with a rill, a sculpture plinth on a terraced platform, or a Victorian “room.”
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Gardens consisting solely of flowering and foliage plants may be lovely, but they may also lack a sense of unification or completion. One way of introducing structure, interest, balance, and focus to a botanically dense landscape is through the application of hardscape elements. Whether it's a simple concrete birdbath emerging from a groundcover bed or an elaborate masonry walkway meandering through a perennial border, such structural ornamentation can be incorporated into gardens of any style and size. Giving straightforward advice and instruction, Davitt guides gardeners through the function and purpose of paths, walls, fountains, arbors, and other garden structures; helpfully suggests companion plantings; and provides dramatic before-and-after color photographs to illustrate the power of hardscape to transform and improve garden settings. Carol Haggas
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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1402718764
ISBN 13 
9781402718762
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
Rating
  • 3.48 out of 5 stars
    31 ratings by Goodreads