The Ornamental Gardener

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The Ornamental Gardener
by Miranda Innes
This enchanting garden book introduces fresh ideas for blending plantings large and small with paths, steps, water, sculpture and other ornamental accents, emphasizing individuality, character and fun.
Wise in the ways of creating a garden that works, and delightfully witty as well, Miranda Innes furnishes inspiration in abundance, coupled with the practical guidance to see it through. Whether your taste runs to plain pickets or curly iron fences, country wicker or Moroccan rose gardens, the key elements are balance, harmony and theme-oriented groupings, as well as surprise. Components can be thrown together as a garbled jumble, or, as the author illustrates, given rhyme and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Á glorious array of sty I ish idi-us in color on every ornamental theme.
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over 100 superb images from leading garden photographers, plus tips and pr'^^''• i'lie ornamen'i ai. (gardener is the perfect book for every creative

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$35.00
The Ornamental Gardener
by Miranda Innes
This enchanting garden book introduces fresh ideas for blending plantings large and small with paths, steps, water, sculpture and other ornamental accents, emphasizing individuality, character and fun.
Wise in the ways of creating a garden that works, and delightfully witty as well, Miranda Innes furnishes inspiration in abundance, coupled with the practical guidance to see it through. Whether your taste runs to plain pickets or curly iron fences, country wicker or Moroccan rose gardens, the key elements are balance, harmony and theme-oriented groupings, as well as surprise. Components can be thrown together as a garbled jumble, or, as the author illustrates, given rhyme and rhythm to make Eden on earth. It all depends on the creative eye and talent of the designer.
It is Eden, beautiful and stylish, that these pages of humor-filled guidance and luscious photographs present. "We fortunate gardeners of the twentieth century can make use of all the visual tricks and mechanical fancies, the weathered antiques, the poetic ideas and the artistry with plants, of the past. We can plagiarize freely from historic Japan, Rome or France; we can pinch a poetic notion for an arbor from a medieval manuscript, and ally it with a frivolous pastiche of Pal-ladian rustic."
This is the brilliant message of laissezfaire that Miranda Innes brings home: the world, past and present, is our oyster, as far as garden ornament is concerned. Yet not for a minute does she forget the practical considerations; help is given with clever economizing. Moreover, an entire section is devoted to practical matters. Here the intricacies of paths, steps, wattles, grottoes and
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MIRANDA INNES is garden editor and writer for Country Living magazine. She studied graphic design at the Central School of .;¦. Art and Design in London and has an English degree from Girton College, Cambridge. She is author of The Country Home "J Decorating Book, Candles and Ethnic Styie, and edited The Passionate Gardener. She lives in London.
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gazebos are explained in text and clear drawings. Additional assets are the lists of suppliers of garden ornaments, as well as gardens to visit.
With wit and wisdom even in the photographic captions, and chapter-opening cjuotes by such garden lovers as Kipling, Milton and Disraeli, The Ornamental Gardener is a delightfully rewarding and civilized approach to attaining a glorious garden; appropriately, for gardening is surely one of the high arts of civilization.
Front and hack photographs
by Jerry liarpur
Author photograph by Clay Perry
ISBN 0-88045-123-8
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