Courtyard Gardens: Imaginative Ideas for Outdoor Living

by TobyMusgrave (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $4.56

  This work includes ingenious solutions for creating small, secluded gardens for outdoor living; gives blueprints for designing, building and decorating a courtyard including barbecues, water features & decking; shows how to bring a courtyard alive with detailed planting blueprints; and is written by an eminent and best selling author. Courtyard Gardens is packed with imaginative ideas for creating small, secluded gardens for outdoor living. Whether you are starting with a new plot or transforming an existing garden into a private haven, this books offers a wealth of design and planting solutions. This book features 18 three dimensional plans for classic garden styles that can be adopted for all different sizes and uses, from the classical garden through renaissance courtyards and Mediterranean styles to classical Japanese gardens. The book contains hundreds of ideas for wall. Screens, floors, water features and lighting as well as a directory to plants give guidance on the best type of plants for different types of garden.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $4.22

  There is perhaps no style of garden more emotive and evocative than the cottage garden - imbued with a sense of romance, idealised by writers and painters, and so alluring to garden makers all over the world, it has been fashionable for nearly two centuries. But, today we often think of it as outdated, old fashioned, past its sell-by date. Wrong! With the hustle and bustle of today's frantic lifestyle, the cottage garden has never been more appropriate. It is the distillation of the essence of what a garden should be - it is a place of beauty, repose and tranquillity. It enables us to get back in touch with the soil, to enjoy the hugely rewarding, but simple pleasures of sowing seed and taking cuttings, of caring for plants and watching them grow and thrive, of harvesting and eating home grown produce. And when the work is done, we can relax in a beautiful, sweetly scented floral retreat.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $4.25

  There is perhaps no style of garden more emotive and evocative than the cottage garden - imbued with a sense of romance, idealized by writers and painters, and so alluring to garden makers all over the world, it has been fashionable for nearly two centuries. But today we often think of it as outdated, old-fashioned, past its sell-by date. The author argues that, in fact, with the hustle and bustle of today's frantic lifestyle, the cottage garden has never been more appropriate. It is the distillation of the essence of what a garden should be - it is a place of beauty, repose and tranquillity. It enables us to get back in touch with the soil, to enjoy the hugely rewarding, but simple pleasures of sowing seed and taking cuttings, of caring for plants and watching them grow and thrive, of harvesting and eating home grown produce. When the work is done, we can relax in a beautiful, sweetly scented floral retreat. The book includes designs and artwork that help fulfil the dream and should inspire readers to create a beautiful and practical cottage garden, in whichever style they prefer. It also features a catalogue of specific plants to achieve each look, with horticultural guidelines, and a list of stockists and suppliers.