Even beginners can plant striking designs if they can learn to spot patterns.
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A Pattern Garden gives us the tools for creating our own highly satisfying garden spaces. Easton identifies 14 garden patterns that she sees as fundamental to successful design and that will turn any landscape into a memorable and rewarding retreat. This book will help you to identify what pleases you, and why, and provide inspiration and direction in the planting and layout of your own garden. Discussions of essential patterns, such as the creation of paths or the incorporation of water into the garden, are complemented by concrete advice about plant selection.
216 pp, 235 x 275 mm, 220 colour photos, 1 map, hardcover
ISBN13 9780881927801
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I've never particularly thought about 'patterns' in garden design, but I've now been convinced that they are a fundamental part of the design process. ... This is a book that every designer should have as a reference — it's a wonderful and surprising new take on design concepts that will make every garden a splendid new experience.
Ms. Easton has an accessible, down-to-earth style in the book. ... When she writes or talks about her own garden and others, one is led to believe that even the most rank beginner should just do it: go ahead and decide where that path should go, imagine where it will lead, and what might lie, like a surprise, or a sanctuary, at the end.
A garden design book that may very well become a classic.
[Easton] has a clear, approachable writing style that gives even the most novice of gardeners the confidence to apply these patterns to their own gardens.
Offers an abundance of beautiful photographs and inspiring and well-organized design ideas, but also provides insight into why these things matter. ... Explores garden making as an enlivening process that draws on every aspect of human experience.
Val Easton's warm and clear writing style is very familiar, but her subject matter in this book breaks new ground as she applies the architectural concepts of patterns, or putting 'human instincts into words,' to garden settings.