Landscape Design
Designing your landscape will help you avoid frustration and overspending on plants and materials that don't work for what you are trying to accomplish with your yard. Maybe its because of where I live, but it sure seems like a lot of folks are ... [... more]
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Guy Cooper
The last two decades have seen a great explosion in the diversity, functionality, and beauty of modern garden design. The first major survey of contemporary private gardens, this book explores the imaginative ideas behind landscape design today. ... [... more]
Random House |
The Sourcebook of Contemporary Landscape Design
Àlex Sánchez Vidiella has an Art History degree from the University of Barcelona. He has written and edited books on art, architecture, and design, including The Sourcebook of Architecture. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Introduction to Landscape Design
 A very comprehensive, theoretical and philosophical introduction to Landscape Design: "Introduction to Landscape Design" is a very comprehensive, theoretical and philosophical introduction to Landscape Design. It is composed of 4 parts ( [... more]
CDN$95.99
Amazon CA |
From Concept to Form in Landscape Design
A good tool to assist design professionals to concretize their ideas and design concepts: Architects, landscape architects, and urban planners are graphic thinkers. A simple graphic can communicate more design intent than many, many words. "From [... more]
CDN$65.99
Amazon CA |
Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History
A valuable landscape design history book: As the founding president of the famous Central Park Conservancy and of Cityscape Institute, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers summarized her experience, research and observations and her extensive training in art history [... more]
CDN$115.00
Amazon CA |
The Complete Plant Selection Guide for Landscape Design
This is a GREAT book!: The Big Green Plant Selection Book! That's what I call it. This is a GREAT book for anyone who has to make plant selections. I have only had it a short time and already I find myself reaching for it, time and time again. Once you [... more]
CDN$85.23
Amazon CA |
Spring Flowering Trees
The right flowering tree can bring great beauty to your spring garden. Here are some favorites to consider for your own landscape design plan. I like a lot of color in my garden all season long. Flowering trees are an easy and dependable way to ... [... more]
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Rose Garden Structures
Landscape ideas using rose support structures such as arches, pergolas, trellises and pillars. Landscape design employs four principles: form, texture, color, and line. More recently, density and mass have been added to the list as designers ... [... more]
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Landscaping with Old Garden Roses
Using both once-blooming and repeat-blooming old roses in the landscape. Old Garden Roses provide a wealth of landscape design opportunities. The gardener, having made the "how, why, where and which" decisions, has yet another choice to make [... more]
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Landscaping with Roses - Selecting the Rose
Now that the how, why and where decisions have been made, the only thing left is to determine the which. Selecting the right rose for your landscape is central to success of your landscape design. There are three questions one must answer before ... [... more]
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