Climbing Gardens: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden - Hardcover

Clifton, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1552977137 ISBN 13: 9781552977132

Publisher: Firefly Books, 2003

Synopsis

All gardens need height to make them come alive in three dimensions and to extend the planting area. Climbing Gardens explores all the varieties and uses of climbing plants to create unique garden spaces that preserve privacy, increase the feeling of space, and create unusual gardens and moods.

Includes a whole range of vertical structures from simple trellises and tepees to elegant arbors and obelisks
Explores creative ways to maximize space in a small garden
Provides inspiration for all types of gardens, formal as well as kitchen gardens, plus lots of ideas for patios, porches, roof terraces, and balconies
Offers a comprehensive and descriptive list of climbing plants to help gardeners make the right choices for their garden needs
Illustrates and describes numerous projects step-by-step
Features five chapters on a range of styles - formal, urban, living, romantic and potager that cover a wide variety of sites.

Illustrated with more than 150 inspiring photographs of gardens in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

About this title

About the Author

Joan Clifton designs and creates wrought-iron and wirework forms for training topiary and living sculptures. She is the author of Making a White Garden and Garden Elements, and also contributes to leading magazines.

Steven Wooster is a garden photographer and graphic designer. His photographs have appeared in many magazines and books, including Gravel Garden by Beth Chatto.

Reviews

Passion flower. Chocolate vine. Golden trumpet. With names like these, who wouldn't want a garden bursting with climbing plants? Used for scent or screening, romance or relaxation, climbing plants also add a dimensional element otherwise missing from gardens that exist solely at ground level. In the language of garden design, this is known as "verticality," and Clifton shows how to achieve it through the felicitous combination of breathtaking plants and eye-catching support structures. These can be as commonplace as arbors and trellises or as unconventional as teepees and obelisks; woven together from exotic bamboo or forged from industrial steel. Enhanced by Steven Wooster's stunning photographs, Clifton's elegantly produced guide explores various thematic interpretations for climbing gardens, from romantic to urban, casual to formal. Along with detailed lists of suitable perennials, annuals, evergreens, and even vegetables, Clifton offers step-by-step instructions in a comprehensive resource for those wishing to take their gardens to new heights. Carol Haggas
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Edition details

• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552977137
• ISBN 13: 9781552977132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144