Landscape gardening Books

Book SynopsisThis book is a must-have resource complete with 23 professionally designed, easy-to-execute landscape plans. Author Maggie Clayton thoughtfully applies her philosophy that gardening should be enjoyable and that there is an ideal design for every gardener''s needs--regardless of experience. Beautifully illustrated and cleary explained, these plans focus on transforming challenging front yards into ideal spaces. Each plan uses commonly available plants and allows gardeners to landscape in stages according to time, budget and desire--a perfect resource for anyone landscaping a new property or reviving a tired one.

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Book SynopsisDividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions—the “champion” countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south—this volume explains how, in the course of the middle ages, natural characteristics influenced the development of land use and settlement to create a range of distinctive landscapes. The great diversity of Hertfordshire’s landscapes makes it a particularly rewarding area of study. Variations in farming economies, in patterns of trade and communication, as well as in the extent of London’s influence, have all played a part during the course of the postmedieval centuries, and Hertfordshire’s continuing evolution is followed into the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, this authoritative work is invaluable reading for all those with an interest in the history, archaeology, and natural transformation of this fascinating county.Table of Contents1 A county in context 2 Hertfordshire's 'champion' landscapes 3 The landscape of east Hertfordshire 4 The landscape of west Hertfordshire 5 The landscape of south Hertfordshire 6 Woods, parks and pastures 7 Traditional buildings 8 Great houses and designed landscapes 9 Urban and industrial landscapes 10 Suburbs and New Towns, 1870 - 1970

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Book SynopsisLeading landscape architect Kim Wilkie is revered for his unusual vision and his acute grasp of how people have moulded their environment over the centuries. This updated version of his classic book, Led by the Land, has been expanded to include fresh thoughts on farming and settlement and new projects, both huge and intimate, from the designs for new cities in Oman and England to the Swansea Maggie's Centre, and from plans for London's Natural History Museum grounds to the sculptural setting of a furniture factory in Leamington Spa. Wilkie has taken his genius to many parts of the world - including the United States, Chile, Russia, Transylvania, Italy, the Middle East, the very edge of the Arctic Circle, as well as the British Isles - but to each undertaking he brings the same approach of reverence for the land and the creatures that inhabit it. He does not impose his inspiration on it but interacts with it. He allows the land to lead him. Led by the Land ruminates on our species' place in the environment, the way past masters have fashioned it and the hopes for our future fruitful connections and offers not only a rich account of an unusual talent, but also an optimistic vision for our future.Trade Review"A revelatory survey of how landscapes in human hands can become moving, inhabited works of art, written by one of the most gifted of today's landscape architects." -- Sir David Attenborough"For landscape designers of the 1970s and 1980s, Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe's The Landscape of Man was a touchstone. Many have since tried to reproduce something of its profundity, and Kim Wilkie comes close with Led by the Land." -- Tim Richardson * Gardens Illustrated *"The complex challenges of designing a garden that’s at one with the natural landscape is the subject of British landscape architect Kim Wilkie’s Led by the Land. First published in 2012 and considered a garden classic, [this is] an updated, expanded version featuring some of Wilkie’s recent design projects as well as his musings on farming and settlement. * Irish Times Gardening Books of the Year *"Wilkie’s book ruminates on our species’ place in the environment, the way past masters have fashioned it and the hopes for our future fruitful connections. It is in many ways an inspirational book, leading us gently into a greater understanding of our landscape and our place in it. It offers not only a rich account of an unusual talent but also an optimistic vision of our future." * Reckless Gardener *

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Book SynopsisIn Setting the Scene leading garden designer George Carter describes his own work over the past thirty years and puts it in the context of the teachings of the great eighteenth-century landscaper Humphry Repton. The result is a series of pithy lesson that will be invaluable to any garden designer, or garden owner. Rich in both inspiring ideas and practical advice, Setting the Scene shows how successful gardens are designed and made. Following the pattern set by Repton in his revered Red Books, Carter takes us through the process in meticulous detail, leading us from the initial site plan to the glory of the finished garden, and illustrating each chapter with photographs and plans of gardens from his own portfolio, ranging from small urban gardens to large country estates, the world over.Trade Review"Lavishly illustrated with fine photographs of Carter's garden designs taken by Marianne Majerus. It will be inspirational and of great practical use for anyone setting out to design a garden." * Topiarius *"Acclaimed garden designer George Carter shows us how to translate the ideas of Repton's Red Books on garden planning and layout through his own work today." * The Lady Books of the Year *"Cleverly woven with interesting information about Repton himself and his influences on George’s own career. The result is a series of pithy lessons that will be invaluable to any garden designer or garden owner – indeed for anyone interested in horticulture and design. There are excellent plans and photographs of gardens from his own portfolio, ranging from small urban gardens to large country estates, the world over." * The Reckless Gardener *"Sheer originality, verve, wit and invention burst from the images on these pages. The author modestly tells us about Repton - but it is Carter from whom we learn. He gives the amateur designer the confidence to experiment with ornament and be bold with evergreen shapes." -- Tim Richardson * Gardens Illustrated *"One of the most inspiring books on garden design I've ever encountered." -- Alan Titchmarsh * Waitrose Weekend *"George Carter distils his 30-year career into a set of lively and useful chapters. Ultimately, [this book] shows how adaptable Repton's ideas are for gardens of all sizes today. There is a relaxed feeling, as if you're a participant in a three-decade-long conversation between the two." -- Barbara Segall * House & Garden *‘George Carter will transform a backyard into Versailles.’ -- Independent

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Book SynopsisHailed as ‘the man who made the modern garden’, John Brookes transformed twentieth-century garden design, not only in his native Britain but throughout the world. In his first – groundbreaking – book, Room Outside, in 1969, he wrote ‘A garden is essentially a place for use by people . . . not a static picture created by plants . . . plants provide the props, the colour and texture, but the garden is the stage and its design should be determined by the uses it is intended to fulfil.’ For nearly fifty years he has designed gardens, and taught garden design – in the United States, Canada and South America, in Russian and Japan, in Iran and all over Europe – and he continues to emphasize ‘the importance of reconciling nature and the character of a landscape with the needs and visions of the people living in it’. Now, in A Landscape Legacy, John Brookes tells the story of his life and work and reflects on how his thinking about design has developed. ‘John Brookes’s work has helped gardeners worldwide move beyond the tradition of pure horticulture towards a recognition of space, mass, volume and texture as crucial elements in design; towards functional considerations – how people live in gardens, even small ones created with modest means; and an emphasis on setting and spirit of place, making gardens more than mere fashionable and interchangeable decors. By treating garden design as an art form, yet recognizing its raw materials as living, evolving and infinitely diverse, he bridges the opposition of art and nature, conceptual and environmental design.’ - Louisa Jones, garden writer, ProvenceTrade Review"This attractively produced book is essential reading for anyone interested in garden design and history." -- Tim Richardson * Telegraph Gardening Books of the Year *“We are fortunate that he lived to complete this book, for he was an inspired teacher and mentor as well as a designer, and every page, with its plans, elevations and photographs, underscores not only his expertise but his powers in communicating it.” -- Ursula Buchan * Spectator, The Year's Best Gardening Books *"A delightful and insightful book and as important in the literature of garden design as Brookes' monumental Room Outside." * Irish Garden Plant Society blog *"To read this book is to understand the history and development of contemporary garden design. Brookes' legacy is utterly significant to the creation of the modern garden and this memoir is a book all landscape designers should have on their bookshelves." * The Garden *"This is one book that deserves its place on the bookshelf and I know it will be treasured by many, including myself, for decades to come." * Reckless Gardener * ‘Enrolling in the garden design course at Kew was my best investment ever. John Brookes was the teacher – he is probably the most influential (as well as the most acclaimed) garden designer of the twentieth century. And he is a very good teacher as well.’ -- Cleve West‘John Brookes’s precise eye and talent make most current garden design look tone deaf – he draws out the essence of the site and adds an undercurrent of strong emotion and personal style that allows the land to reveal its character.’ -- Janice Parker"It is no exaggeration to say that John Brookes transformed 20th-century garden design, not only in his native Britain but throughout the world. Here, he tells his story and reflects on how his thinking about garden design, and design generally, has developed." * Listed Property Owners Club magazine *

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Book SynopsisLearn how to keep your lawn in perfect condition all year round with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener. Learn how to keep your lawn in perfect condition all year round with this handy little guidebook from an experienced National Trust head gardener. It's packed with invaluable advice on all aspects of lawn design, creation and maintenance, whether you want an immaculate striped formal lawn or a more hardwearing surface for your children to play on, or even a romantic chamomile lawn or one strewn with colourful spring flowers. It includes incredibly useful troubleshooting tips for the typical problems your lawn might experience, including invasive weeds, pests and diseases and the effects of the weather. The author discusses which types of mower work best for different lawns, when and how to water and feed, and how to bring a neglected lawn back to life. He even dabbles in artificial turf and how best to use it, and offers creative ideas for decorative elements such as stepping stones, edgings and winding paths. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this practical guide contains everything you need to keep your lawn in tip-top condition, every day of the year.

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Book SynopsisText with fully-integrated illustrations which are mainly photographs showing different varieties and habitats, the nuts in their different stages of growth; processing for oil; uses of the timber; the walnut in art; culinary use including a collection of recipes. Practical advice on choosing, planting, maintaining and pruning walnut trees. Approx 80 colour illustrations plus b&w archive prints and drawings. Further reading list. Suppliers. Index.

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Book SynopsisSculpting the Land, by award winning landscape architect Diana Armstrong Bell, is a homage to her unique interpretation of the possibilities of landscape design. A selection of her aesthetically compelling projects, many of which have won international design competitions, show the influence of her study of abstract art, particularly the work of Kazimir Malevich. Diana has developed her own individual approach to landscape design and here she reveals how these unique designs came to be imagined. Inspired by earthworks, lines and patterns in the landscape which over time can appear as land art, spending time in a landscape, observing, listening and gathering clues about its past and how they inform a new story, are all part of the process. All hand-drawn in pencil, ink, collage and watercolour, the book showcases a remarkable collection of art, which is used to develop and present design ideas. Diana focusses on large scale public landscapes in the urban realm, with many of the landscapes being created on ‘brownfield’ sites including Parco Franco Verga in Milan, Lac de Senart in France, Rochester Riverside Park and Electra Park in London.

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Book SynopsisNatural stone is the new garden “fashion statement.” Stone paths, walls, steps, dry streams (and more) are low maintenance and enhance a homeowner’s property like no other landscape feature. The element of stone in a garden has two important qualities: function and beauty. It also conveys a sense of permanence and place. Since ancient times, stone has been revered for bringing a special “feel” to a garden. In The Spirit of Stone, award-winning designer Jan Johnsen presents a richly photographed, authoritative guide to creative and practical uses for stone in the landscape: steps, paths, garden walls, dry streams, benches, rock gardens, driveways and more. Stone’s practicality is especially appreciated by homeowners concerned with low maintenance, sustainability and water conservation – with the side benefit of enhancing property value. The Spirit of Stone is an essential idea book and how-to for designers, stonemasons, builders, homeowners and DIYers.Trade Review"If you are planning a project this season, The Spirit of Stone is worth reading before you get started. It will change your perspective on the role of rocks and gravel in your garden." - Christy Wilhelmi "Stone is beautiful, useful, and artful. So writes the author, Jan Johnsen, who then proceeds to illustrate this premise with outstanding photographs. There are so many ways to use stone in our landscapes and Jan offers inspiration as well as technical advice for installations of different types." -Bobbie Schwartz "[Johnsen] has clearly taken her experiences with varied types of stone and turned them into ideas for utilitarian, decorative and accent elements in the garden. Her book comes with instructions for making dry stream beds, stone steps, walkways and rock gardens." -Pat Leuchtman "Johnsen has written a detailed book that is enjoyable to read. Topics range from cactus rock gardens to gravel paths to karensansui—a Japanese “dry landscape.” Inspirational photographs and installation instruction dominate the text, culminating in a plant pallet at the end. Those who are curious about using more stones in their landscape—including those curious about rock gardening as a style—will very much enjoy The Spirit of Stone." -Esther Jackson "As a horticulturist, I must have seen a thousand gardens and not one stone. Fortunately, after reading The Spirit of Stone, I now have “rock awareness” as Jan calls it and I can now see – I even went back to photos I took — that the stones were there all along." -Peggy Riccio "This book is filled with ideas for adding small to large stones to gardens to enhance their beauty." -Joanne Kempinger Demski "If you are looking for inspiration for your own landscape, along with the background on the many ways to add stone, The Spirit of Stone is a great place to start." -Susan Mulvhill

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Book SynopsisBuffalo-Style Gardens is a one-of-a-kind, offbeat garden design book that showcases the wildly inventive gardens and gardeners of Buffalo – and offers readers "the best of the best” ideas to use in their own small-space gardens.Who knew? Buffalo, New York, is the new Ground Zero for free-spirited garden innovation? Learn from the stories of everyday, non-professional gardeners who have unintentionally transformed Buffalo’s urban neighborhoods into a 21st century garden design laboratory. It’s all about seeing your space with new eyes and not letting existing limitations on the ground stop you from being out-of-the-box creative. Each July, over 400 private gardens open to the public to show off their fresh, often quirky, take on outdoor living. There’s nothing quite like “Garden Walk Buffalo,” the largest garden tour in North America.With hundreds of design, planting and DIY tips, authors and show-garden experts Sally Cunningham and Jim Charlier reveal how fences and furnishings, trees and shrubs, art and whimsy – and the element of surprise – work together to change an ordinary space into something uniquely yours: your own unforgettable Buffalo-style garden.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Buffalo Style: a New Kind of Garden…livable, relatable, original, free spirited PART ONE: Secrets of one-of-a-kind, unforgettable gardens, Buffalo-style! Chapter 1: Other People’s Gardens: what you can learn from a garden walk Chapter 2: Great Little Gardens and How They Grew Chapter 3: Good Garden Design (in the beginning…) PART TWO: You and Your Site Chapter 4: What Do You Want Your Garden To Be? Chapter 5: What Does Your Garden Want To Be? (your site’s challenges and opportunities) PART THREE: The Bones of Your Unforgettable Garden (design features that make all the difference) Chapter 6: Set the Stage (Frame it!): walls, hedges, fences and more Chapter 7: The Big Bones: immovable objects Chapter 8: Find Your Path: lines, contours, walkways PART FOUR: Let’s Decorate! (making it personal) Chapter 9: Furniture and Hardscape Define Your Style Chapter 10: Art, Collections & Themes Chapter 11: And Now We Choose Plants! PART FIVE: Gardening for the Greater Good: from the neighborhood to the world Chapter 12: Gardening is Transformative…and Contagious Appendix Destination public gardens; U.S. private garden tour listings; Recommended reading Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs for the grounds of the Washington Monument, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, and Bryant Park in New York City. His recent projects include the award-winning landscape for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Apple Park in Cupertino, and Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland, Oregon. All these and many more iconic works were realized under the auspices of OLIN, the landscape architectural firm he cofounded in 1976. Olin is also a prolific writer, and in this volume a selection of his published work has been assembled for the first time. The collection comprises articles, lectures, and essays spanning a wide array of subjectsfrom horticulture and education to urban history. Olin''s musings on his own creative development, the evolving state of the profession of landscape architecture, and many other topics will interest a wide range of readers. As a young man, Olin studied civil engineering at the University of Alaska and earned a degree in architecture from the University of Washington, where Richard Haag stimulated his interest in landscape and the poet Theodore Roethke encouraged his literary skills. Through a long and distinguished career, he has enlivened the field with his humanistic perspective and his multivalent approach to urban design. The author of several books, including, most recently, France Sketchbooks: The Travel Sketchbooks of Artists and Designers (2020) and Be Seated (2018), Olin is among the profession''s most influential voices. A Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Landscape Architects, he is a recipient of the 1998 Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2011 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal. In 2012 Olin received the National Medal of Artsthe highest lifetime achievement award given to an artist by the president.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, in the region of the Landes, between Bayonne and Peyrehorade, on the banks of the Adour River, the photographer Jeannette Leroy and the art dealer Paul Haim created a sculpture garden around a modest farm, La Petite Escalère. With the help of the faithful gardener Gilbert Carty, amidst canals, bridges, paths made of railway ties, and many trees and flowers, they installed about 50 works, some of them monumental, by artists such as Rodin, Maillol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Zao Wou-Ki, Françoise Lacampagne, Cárdenas, Mark Di Suvero, Léger, Matta, Zigor… Paul positioned the sculptures, and to help them vanish into the natural environment Jeannette would plant a shrub, a rosebush, dahlias, an oak, a maple, a gingko, a Caucasian walnut… “I don’t want this garden to become ridiculous!” she said. Paul Haim has evoked the bewitching beauty of La Petite Escalère better than anyone else: “The nonchalant visitor will pass from the shade of Les Barthes to the brightness of the Moura, from the freshness of the fountains to the suffocating heat of the forest. Coming around a bush, he allows himselfto be surprised by an unusual presence. Immutable. … Far from the agitations of the world, sinking into nothing-ness, watching the clouds go by, contemplating the places of joy.” Text in English and French.

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Book SynopsisUltimate Gardens & Swimming Pools Front cover image Wim Pauwels Not yet printed due - 05/19 9782875500656 Hardback Beta-Plus Publishing Territory: World Size: 340 mm x 270 mm Pages: 192 Illustrations: 200 colour RRP £69.95 This book features some of the world's most beautiful private gardens and swimming pools, realised by the best garden and landscape architects working today. Includes private gardens from the UK, France, Belgium, and Hong Kong. Text in English and French.

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Book SynopsisHow can an abstract term like “Topology” become pertinent and effective to landscape thinking today? There is a schism between the way landscape is understood scientifically, either as a normative network or an environmental system, and the way the same place exists emotionally for people. This disparity which prevails in today’s landscape calls for a change of approach, both in terms of action and perception. Topology, in this instance, is not confined to the science of continuous surfaces in mathematics, it can pay greater attention to deeper spatial, physical, poetic and philosophical values embedded in a long tradition of designed nature. The strength of landscape topology is that it can weave together and integrate heterogeneous fields of action into a single meaningful whole. It brings disciplines together on a common topological “vellum” capable of improving our understanding of landscape as a cultural construct with all its inherent beauty and strength.Trade ReviewTheory is proposed and dissected in this collection of writings on landscape by European academics and thinkers. "Topology" is designated as the guiding theme, but it's not restrictive, and authors delve into "The Relationship Bewteen Plants and Landscape Architectural Design," "Landscape and Modernity," and "The Sensuality of the Engineer." Dense in spots, this book is for readers who want to think about and mull over big ideas on landscape.--William S. Saunders "Landscape Architecture Magazine "

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Book SynopsisNature is not simply “green” or the “opposite of culture.” Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship between man and Nature, for instance, articulates itself architectonically. Now what could one see as the possible role of Nature in projects of architects representative of the International Style (including successive echoes in postwar modernity), and how does Nature itself only become “visible” through the built environment? Based on key architecture projects, this fourth volume of the Landscript series attempts to instigate a change of perspective. In series of investigations, renowned researchers analyse architecture through the lens of its own inherent understanding of Nature. Their essays try to gain insights both into concepts of Nature in modernity, whose entire range of characteristics have yet to be explored, and into an architecture, whose relationship to Nature is usually only negotiated in disciplines like garden history. How does this finally relate to our present condition?

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Book SynopsisThe difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world. Yet, today the existential and elementary nature of landscapes remains the bearer of a successful metaphor for “balance”. Why not draw—amidst a truly global crisis—conclusions out of our long history of designed nature, of places shaped by skilled labor and a quest for pleasure? Landscape Analogue seeks to stimulate the “Analogue” dimension as a substantial concept for everyday landscape thinking. In an anthology of interdisciplinary essays, Landscript 6 stresses the necessity for a fundamental shift, within the likely framework of a future of restricted resources, a radically different mobility or “hot” cities.

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Book SynopsisDas neue Jahrbuch HOCHWEIT gibt einen Einblick in die aktuelle Lehre und Forschung der vielfach ausgezeichneten Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Im Zentrum stehen dabei studentische Projekte und Entwürfe im In- und Ausland, die sich auch mit den aktuellen Themen der Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz im Städtebau, in der Baukunst sowie in der Landschaftsarchitektur befassen. Zahlreiche Entwurfs- und Lehrveranstaltungen, Forschungsaktivitäten, Vorträge, Exkursionen, Workshops, Ausstellungen und Fachdiskussionen vermitteln ein Bild vom Lehren und Forschen und zeigen die bereichernde Kraft der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit.

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Book SynopsisIt is difficult to rival the beauty of trees, with their tall, slender stature and the height of their crowns. Nevertheless, the ambition of the Parckdesign call for proposals was to take up the challenge of highlighting the ancestral link that exists between man and nature, between man's artefacts and his relationship with the natural element and environment by the means of urban furniture. Put in a contemporary context, park furniture is focussed on the willingness to experiment, test, enchance and discover natural sites that are seeking a more specific identity.

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Book SynopsisThe Swiss landscape and garden architects presented in this book are united by their marvellous diversity. Playful working landscapes, atmospheric courtyards and patios, charming estates, attractive parks and pleasant city squares often owe their inviting character to ingenious touches by an architect. Greenery and stone, and the occasional use of metal, combine to produce unique locations - terraces, sun lounges, landscapes and esplanades - all with the special magic of their constantly shifting appearance. Eleven highly talented Swiss landscape architects come together in this book to offer a taste of their skills. Text in German and French ILLUSTRATIONS 200 colour illustrations

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Book SynopsisThe Wirtz Gardens Part III is the third in a series of books on the gardens of landscape architect practice Wirtz International Landscape Architects. It contains 30 gardens, a mixture of private, public and corporate projects in Belgium, Japan, France and England. Private projects in the USA and Switzerland are shown, gardens which enchant by their beautiful setting, their scale or their exclusiveness. Unusual projects like the cloister's gardens of the Hauterive Abbey (Switzerland) or the Haute Couture fashion show stage set for Dior in 2012, and, a secluded Japanese garden with views to Mount Fuji will surprise the reader.

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