The only book that addresses the needs of gardeners with one-third of an acre or more.
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Designing and Renovating Larger Gardens
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Award-winning landscape designer Douglas Coltart offers practical instructions for designing and renovating spacious gardens, with an eye towards issues unique to those working with at least a third of an acre of land. This book will enable gardeners to make a range of positive changes, such as anchoring the garden into the surrounding landscape, making the most of arrival space, creating focal points, working with scale and proportion and cultivating a sense of spatial unity. Using illustrated case studies, the author recounts triumphs (and tribulations) from his past projects. With practical instructions, inspirational examples and photos of spacious gardens worldwide, this book will prove an indispensable resource for amateur and professional garden designers.
168 pp, 185 x 265 mm, 161 colour photos, 86 line drawings, hardcover
ISBN13 9780881928242
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This book clearly identifies the design issues affecting larger gardens, and as an innovative design manual provides inspiration and practical guidance for anyone with a property of significant size.
This book would be of benefit to the heritage garden sector, students of garden history, local authority landscape architects, and designers of gardens of all sizes.
Written specifically for the larger garden and helps to take the anxiety out of working on a bigger scale. ... [It] is most definitely an invaluable tool for anyone renovating or considering taking on a larger garden.