Classic Garden Structures: 18 Elegant Projects to Enhance Your Garden - Softcover

Jan Gertley; Michael Gertley

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9781561582419: Classic Garden Structures: 18 Elegant Projects to Enhance Your Garden

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ISBN 10: 1561582417 ISBN 13: 9781561582419

Publisher: Taunton Press Inc, 1998

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Attractive trellises, planting boxes, and other gardening structures can be expensive and difficult to find. The 18 projects in this book are a cut above the ordinary. Their classical designs evoke the craftsmanship and styling of an era gone by. From a simple string and stake row marker to a small greenhouse, these well-designed projects show how simple details can make garden structures both graceful and hardworking. Inspiring color photos, detailed drawings, and careful step-by-step instructions will help gardeners, homeowners, and woodworkers build a tool caddy, elegant plant supports, a potting bench, an outdoor sink, even a delightful seed saver's box.

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18 Elegant Projects to Enhance Your Garden
In an effort to create garden structures and accessories that hold their own in the company of a well-groomed flower or vegetable garden, we set about designing and building 18 projects that will add charm and elegance to any landscape. This book is a collection of these projects. They are relatively easy to build and aesthetically designed with traditional details. Their sturdy construction will give years of service while evoking the charm of bygone days. Clear, step-by-step instructions, along with numerous measured drawings and photographs, guide you through every project. Some of the projects covered in Classic Garden Structures include: a Tomato Trellis, Planter Box and Obelisk, Potting Bench, Vegetable Washstand, Cold Frame, Strawberry Tower, Garden Sieve, classically styled Greenhouse, and many more. Take your garden beyond the normal fare with Classic Garden Structures! - Jan & Michael Gertley

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The step-by-step photographs and plans makes the 18 projects in this volume accessible to anyone who wants to enhance a garden or landscape. It aims to show how simple details can make garden structures both graceful and hard-working, and ranges from a strawberry tower to cold frame.

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