Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan - Softcover

Dargan, Mary Palmer; Dargan, Hugh Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1423623401 ISBN 13: 9781423623403

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2011

Synopsis

Offers a four-part master plan to achieve the sophisticated look of a professionally designed landscape on any size property.

About this title

About the Authors

Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan are nationally known principals in the Atlanta-based firm of Dargan Landscape Architects. Their projects have been published in many national publications and on Home and Garden Television (HGTV). They are both members of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Hugh Dargan is a founding member of the Southern Garden History Society.

Mary Palmer Dargan is a nationally known principal in the Atlanta-based firm of Dargan Landscape Architects. Her projects have been published in many national publications and on Home and Garden Television (HGTV). She is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

From the Inside Flap

In Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, renowned landscape architects Mary Palmer Dargan and Hugh Graham Dargan share the secret to creating an unforgettable landscape with the “Four-Part Master Plan”―a unique method they’ve perfected in the past three decades of creating award-winning gardens and landscapes for clients. The Dargans share a blend of specific design techniques and practical advice on how to achieve the sophisticated look of a professionally designed landscape on any size and type of property.

The Four-Part Master Plan is the universal language of the land and consists four basic parts:

The Approach and Arrival Sequence creates a sense of anticipation.

The Hub is the property’s natural center.

The Perimeter consists of outdoor spaces wrapped tightly around the house.

Passages to Destinations animate movement around a property and invite the enjoyment of garden places.

Examples of specific design treatments are beautifully illustrated with lush color photography taken from their own archives and landscape plans of their clients’ gardens. Illustrations of historic gardens from around the world that inspired the authors are included, as well as before and after examples of the authors’ award-winning work.

Learn how to apply this unique master plan that gives homeowners a simple and systematic means of planning their gardens.

Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA and Hugh Graham Dargan, ASLA are nationally known principals in the Atlanta-based firm of Dargan Landscape Architects. Their “before and after” landscape projects air on Ground Breakers, an HGTV series, and CNN’s Landscape Central. The Dargans’ projects appear in major publications including Garden Design, Southern Accents, The New York Times, Better Homes and Gardens, House & Garden, Charleston Magazine, Southern Living, Veranda and Traditional Home.

Both are licensed landscape architects, members of the American Society of Landscape Architecture and the Association of Professional Landscape Designers. The Dargans have received numerous national and regional awards.

Mary Palmer Dargan authored the award-winning book The Early English Kitchen Garden: Medieval Period to 1800. A founding member of the National Advisory Committee of the Garden Conservancy, she served, with Hugh, as Chair of the Historic Preservation Professional Group of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Mary Palmer founded the American Certificate of Landscape Design, a distance learning course.

The Dargans are popular speakers at horticultural events, conferences and at botanical gardens across the country and in Europe

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When you approach your home after a trip out into the rest of the world, does the sight of your home invite you into a sanctuary, a retreat, a refuge from the cares of the world? When you are inside your home and looking out, do you find something beautiful, amusing and /or intriguing? When you walk around your property, are the areas you go to easy to approach, attractive, useful? If you have to answer “no” to any of these questions, it is time to take another look at landscapes―timeless landscapes―and see how you can put the lessons learned through hundreds of years to work outside your own door in a landscape that pleases the eye, nourishes the soul and makes living easier.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1423623401
• ISBN 13: 9781423623403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192