Books on Landscaping Are Very Important For Anyone Planning on Landscaping Their Own Yard
With a focus on the process of design, this book's practical approach serves users with a design manual for those interested in gaining knowledge and developing skills in the design of landscapes for private residences. This useful reference clearly illustrates and discusses the actual procedures and underlying principles utilized by experienced residential landscape designers. Extensive illustrations in the form of plans, sections, elevations, diagrams and perspectives show users the application of material presented. Content provides the quality fundamentals of residential site design—exploring functional and artistic elements, with a focus on appreciation of quality and updated standards for site development, maintenance techniques and training. Architecturally responsive design material is emphasized throughout—examines landscape designs and structures that blend with the existing house character. Includes useful chapters on Functional Diagrams and Form Composition—critical subjects in creating functionally and visually successful design solutions. Also features reorganized and revised chapters—expanded section on planting design (Ch. 11); and Chapter 14 on Design Alternatives. A good reference for those who are beginning their design careers, as well as those currently practicing residential design.
Notes Smith, a landscape designer and gardening columnist, the front garden is the "stepchild" of garden design, all too often overlooked as a no-man's-land between street and front door. And since houses today are situated on smaller and smaller lots, and backyards--if present at all--may be unsuited to horticulture, she argues that a front yard is too precious to waste on the tract of lawn and dreary foundation plantings endemic to suburbs from coast to coast. After a brief survey of American front-yard "traditions," she gives trenchant hands-on advice on designing a front garden, covering such practical matters as siting paths, screening unpleasant views, and whether to employ a landscape architect or garden designer. The chapter "A Public or Private Front Yard?" explores how to use man-
Once introduced to Japan's aesthetic sensibilities and philosophical underpinnings, Westerners often develop an appreciation of Japan's traditional gardens. Keane's handsome, explanatory survey, however, offers garden lovers who simply fail to see beauty in Japanese landscapes a rich resource for comprehending this ancient art form. Beautifully written descriptions illuminate historical development, religious and societal associations, and relationships between garden design and other Japanese arts. And Keane's great affinity with his subject, after immersion in Japanese life and the creation of gardens in Japan, affords him the ability to reveal countless subtleties in the acclaimed gardens pictured. In this fascinating commentary, Keane, a thoroughly engaging, insightful observer, clarifies the essence of what occurs when the elements of Japanese design intermingle to form a near perfect realm. Alice Joyce
The Complete Plant Selection Guide for Landscape Design is the first text by Marc Stoecklein. The guide arranges plants first by type (trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennials, vines, ferns, and grasses), then by a variety of factors designers may need to consider when selecting plants. These include light and soil requirements, flower, foliage, and fruit characteristics, tolerances, and growth habit. Plant names are given in both scientific and common forms, with the master indices at the beginning of each section arranged by genus and species.