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Design your garden not just to delight the eye, but also to stimulate the mind and evoke emotions, with dramatic rise and fall, breathtaking surprises and intriguing asides. Top landscape designer Shelagh Meagher takes a narrative approach to gardening in this beautifully illustrated book. Capture your garden's true spirit of place. Learn to use transitional elements such as gates, walls, pathways and bridges to create a private world within your garden. Plant for color, mood, harmony and contrast. This remarkable book presents a fresh and innovative approach to gardening and landscaping, whether you are cultivating a tiny downtown oasis or a large country estate.
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Shelagh Meagher studied landscape design with John Brookes in England in the 1980s. She operates her own landscape design firm, working with residential clients in the Toronto area. She was awarded a gold medal for her entry in the Winter Garden Show at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.
John de Visser's photographs have been collected in more than forty books. His awards include the National Film Board Medal for Still Photography, and Art Director's Club Awards of Merit from Toronto, Montreal and New York. In 1994 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
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- PublisherBoston Mills Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1550461087
- ISBN 13 9781550461084
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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