Designing a Garden: A Guide to Planning and Planting Through the Seasons - Softcover

Paterson, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0921820453 ISBN 13: 9780921820451

Publisher: Camden House Pub, 1992

Synopsis

Stressing the concept that coherence is the key to garden design, Paterson invites us to indulge our need for beauty and to explore the creative rewards that linger tantilizingly just beyond our backdoors.

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From the Publisher

A Guide to Planning and Planting Through the Seasons
"From first sentence to last, the text of [Allen Paterson's] book is the best garden chat-clear, informative, particular in its instructions, and always witty.... Though Paterson's experience as a gardener is vast, his touchstone for this book is his own backyard, and so home landscapers will seldom be drawn beyond their limits, of space or of pocketbook..." ------Horticulture Magazine

In "Designing a Garden", author Allen Paterson invites us to indulge our need for beauty and to explore the creative rewards that linger tantalizingly just beyond our back doors.

A longtime gardener and teacher of gardeners, Paterson believes that coherence is the key to garden design. To that end, he advises pathways, patios, terraces, raised beds and the materials with which one can best achieve a marriage of form and content. Nevertheless, the essential raw materials for Paterson are clearly the plants themselves, which he likens to "living furniture".

He brings to life the myriad gardening options available to us, including the perennial border, annuals, trees and shrubs, flowering bulbs, roses, the vegetable garden and "the garden room".

There are many colorful, illustrative photographs and several sample garden outlines, which expand on the text.

Edition details

• Publisher: Camden House Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0921820453
• ISBN 13: 9780921820451
• Binding: Paperback