Gardentopia : Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

Jan Johnsen

ISBN 10: 1682683966 / ISBN 13: 9781682683965

Published by WW Norton & Co Apr 2019, 2019

About this Item

Neuware - Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen's new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to 'co-creating with nature' will have you saying, 'I can do that!'This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using 'real world' solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as 'Soften a Corner', 'Paint it Black', and 'Hide and Reveal'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gardentopia : Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co Apr 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1682683966
• ISBN 13: 9781682683965
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 261W x 212H x 25D millimeters 261 millimeters width by 212 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1221 grams

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Synopsis

“Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape―boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.” - Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates

Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen’s new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to “co-creating with nature” will have you saying, “I can do that!’

This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using ‘real world’ solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as ‘Soften a Corner”, “Paint it Black”, and “Hide and Reveal”.

100 color photographs

About the Author

Jan Johnsen began her professional life in Japan in a landscape architecture office. She has been a principal in a landscape design-and-build firm, Johnsen Landscapes & Pools, based in Westchester, New York, for more than thirty years. Her natural design approach is evident in the landscapes that she shares in her books: Heaven Is a Garden, The Spirit of Stone, Floratopia and Gardentopia.