House Beautiful Gardens

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A beautiful garden is more than a collection of plants. It is, rather, a place that perfectly unifies the practical constraints of soil and climate with the gardener's vision. Every great garden starts from inspiration: perhaps the ovmer's passion for a single plant or fascination with a famous garden, or simply a love of one color. Stylistically, our gardens are more eclectic than ever before—from naturalistic wildflower meadows to lush perennial borders to ordered Japanese gardens.
Now, House Beautiful, America's leading design magazine, shows how to blend personal style with horticultural realities to create a vibrant garden. In profiles of highly individual approaches to garden design, this beautiful book explains how each evolved from its owner's vision and accommodates the demands of specific sizes, climates, and locations.


Regardless of its inspiration, no garden will flourish without structure. Through more than 200 color photographs of work by leading... Tovább

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gardens

A beautiful garden is more than a collection of plants. It is, rather, a place that perfectly unifies the practical constraints of soil and climate with the gardener's vision. Every great garden starts from inspiration: perhaps the ovmer's passion for a single plant or fascination with a famous garden, or simply a love of one color. Stylistically, our gardens are more eclectic than ever before—from naturalistic wildflower meadows to lush perennial borders to ordered Japanese gardens.
Now, House Beautiful, America's leading design magazine, shows how to blend personal style with horticultural realities to create a vibrant garden. In profiles of highly individual approaches to garden design, this beautiful book explains how each evolved from its owner's vision and accommodates the demands of specific sizes, climates, and locations.


Regardless of its inspiration, no garden will flourish without structure. Through more than 200 color photographs of work by leading garden designers and landscape architects, House Beautiful Gardens shows how to sketch in the elements that make up a
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garden—the fences and gates, the paths and terraces, the hedges and walls.
In its conclusion, House Beautiful Gardens explores one of the most important aspects of outdoor design (and one far too often overlooked): the union between house and garden. This is the relationship that ultimately determines the true beauty of the well-conceived outdoors: how it enhances everyday living.
Suzanne Charlé writes about gardens, architecture, and design for House Beautiful. Her articles on the arts and culture have appeared in The NewYork Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Harper's Bazaar, and other periodicals.
Front jacket photograph by Richard felber Back jacket photograph by faith Echtemeyer Vissza