Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Design Books - A-G |
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Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy. In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:-
The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction. Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:-
Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section. |
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Title |
ISBN |
Author |
Pictures of |
Content |
A Japanese Touch for Your Garden |
4-7700-1661-1 |
Kiyoshi Seike, Masanobu Kudo, David H. Engel |
130 Japanese gardens |
Much gardening in Japan is done by a sense of what works and what looks best. And the key to this is your own sensitivity, drawn from your experience of nature. Get out to a park or woods or mountaintop and look around. Once you have an idea of the effect you want in your Japanese garden, use this book to help you achieve it. |
An Introduction to Landscape Design and Construction |
0-566-07775-2 |
James Blake |
153 figures |
Introduction to landscape design with an overview from a working rather than academic point of view. |
Country Gardening: Country Style A natural approach to planning and planting |
0-7153-0241-8 |
Peter Thompson |
Line drawings |
Good Essay on creating a country garden by critcising the original and solving its problems with the additions. Descriptive list of plants that do well in the shade. Native shrubs for hedges. |
Creating a Low-Allergen Garden |
1-85732-454-4 |
Lucy Huntingdon |
Plants and planting plans |
Describes allergic reactions to plants. How to design and plant a low-allergen garden with plant lists and good descriptions with colour photo |
Creating Small Formal Gardens |
1-85029-231-0 |
Roy Strong |
100 Formal garden pictures and photos |
The language, heritage, repertory, application and practicalities of formality with 24 designs |
Creative Sustainable Gardening |
1-89804-923-8 |
Diana Anthony |
100 colour |
Offers advice on techniques for chemical-free gardening from soil conditioning to composting, mulching and creating a home worm farm. Has companion planting charts for vegetables and herbs and quick reference guides to easycare plants for every situation. |
Design and Plant a Mixed Border |
0-7063-7367-7 |
Noel Kingsbury |
Planting design illustrations |
How to design a mixed border using shape, texture, colour and the seasons with plant lists |
Garden Design |
0-7525-1599-3 |
Mathew Clark |
400 colour |
48 gardens from around the world, which are photographed with design description for roof gardens, small outside gardens, inside-outside gardens or vertical gardens. Gives ideas! |
Read this in your best Yorkshire accent.
A Yorkshireman's dog dies and it was a favourite pet, he decides to have a gold statue made by a jeweller to remember the dog by. Yorkshireman: "Can tha mek us a gold statue of yon dog?" Jeweller: "Do you want it 18 carat?" Yorkshireman: "No, I want it chewin' a bone yer daft bugger!" |
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Library Pages
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The Garden Style chosen at the beginning defines what a garden should look like. Following this choice of Garden Style, then:-
Plant Association shows which plant combinations give pleasing flower or foliage colour combinations, then Plant Type gives growing conditions of a family of plants - ie Primulas - with lists of primulas with the same flower colour, foliage colour or height and where is suitable for those plants, followed by Plant Species gives data about a family of plants in a restricted format - ie without lists - as the lowest level of useful information (unless you are prepared to read the text in a whole book each time you want to use this particular species of plant).
Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden. Garden Cultivation gives specific information on veg, fruit, lawn, pond, etc. Garden Pests details garden pests/diseases and their control.
Practical Projects gives details on how to construct hard landscaping. |
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 15,000:-
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when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-
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