This sourcebook emphasizes the important role of plant shape in garden design.
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Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture bridges the gap between garden design books and plant reference encyclopedias. Linden Hawthorne looks at plants from a designer's perspective (where colour is often a secondary consideration) and emphasizes the important role that plant shape plays in the garden. After first exploring how fine art principles such as Divine Proportion and the rule of thirds can be successfully applied to plant compositions, she identifies different plant shapes — buns, tiers, fountains, diagonals, transparents — and shows how using them together contributes to the success of the finished design. At the book's heart is an extensive directory of plants organized according to shape, with advice on using their forms, lines and textures to create dazzling and artful plantings. This innovative plant reference delivers plant information in a form that neatly dovetails with the garden design process and will inspire gardeners to look beyond colour and begin to appreciate the whole plant.
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An excellent book for all 'thinking gardeners'.
I really liked this book
and found it an informative and refreshing read and would definitely recommend
this to anyone looking for inspiration in their planting.
Linden Hawthorne's book, Gardening with Shape, Line, and Texture: A Plant Design Sourcebook, is the best contemporary book on planting and planting design that I have read. Equally good for amateur gardeners and professional designers, I would recommend this book to all of the garden design students I talk to as the best grounding for thinking and knowing about plants.
[Hawthorne] provides the structure for a list of what we use as ingredients, in the voice of a long-practised chef… Lin’s list works because she recounts, quite crisply, how she uses each plant and how it behaves in real life.
