Garden Details

Fülszöveg

T
here is no
better way to announce
a garden's style
and enhance a landscape's
peaceful beauty than
by adding select garden
features. whether your
garden is a tiny city
courtyard, a rolling country
spread, or a suburban lot,
Garden Details offers
hundreds of ideas for
decorating your outdoor
space with such varied
accents as sculpture, sundials, birdbaths, benches,
pots, and walls.
Gcuden Detaib
ACCENTS, ORNAMENTS, AND FINISHING TOUCHES FOR THE GARDEN

oday the garden is more than a place for plants. Naturally, plants are sdll the focal point, but other elements, such as statuary, fountains, walls and fences, garden seats, and gazebos are wonderful ways to enhance a garden landscape. While nature is and always will be the heart of the garden, we can arrange nature's artwork to suit our tastes, and add a personal stamp with our choice of garden ornaments. Garden Details proves the point delightfully. J» In Part One: Garden Accents, learn how to elevate even the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

T
here is no
better way to announce
a garden's style
and enhance a landscape's
peaceful beauty than
by adding select garden
features. whether your
garden is a tiny city
courtyard, a rolling country
spread, or a suburban lot,
Garden Details offers
hundreds of ideas for
decorating your outdoor
space with such varied
accents as sculpture, sundials, birdbaths, benches,
pots, and walls.
Gcuden Detaib
ACCENTS, ORNAMENTS, AND FINISHING TOUCHES FOR THE GARDEN

oday the garden is more than a place for plants. Naturally, plants are sdll the focal point, but other elements, such as statuary, fountains, walls and fences, garden seats, and gazebos are wonderful ways to enhance a garden landscape. While nature is and always will be the heart of the garden, we can arrange nature's artwork to suit our tastes, and add a personal stamp with our choice of garden ornaments. Garden Details proves the point delightfully. J» In Part One: Garden Accents, learn how to elevate even the most ordinary objects into the realm of art, simply by careful placement in the garden. You'll also discover how to select garden accents that are both practical and decorative, such as a pair of antique oil lamps placed near a path to illuminate evening strolls.
J» Containers are a fiin and easy way to personalize and add style to otherwise ordinary garden spaces. From patios and terraces to windowsills and entryways. Part Two: Pots and Containers traverses an array of landscapes, presenting visual proof that container gardening has come a long way firom terracotta flowerpots. You'll also discover how to create artful combinations of foliage and flowers, learning what special qualities to look for when choosing plants to share a pot. 3» Gardens are often a place of repose, reflection, and relaxation. Keeping this in mind. Part Three: Seats and Benches glides through a panorama of garden furniture that is sure to enhance tranquillity in any garden environment—^whether formal, naturalistic, or rustic.









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J» Part Four: Walls and Fences presents a diverse array of ideas for using these structures throughout your garden. From brick walls to wooden fences, this section explores the mEuiy design possibilities these structures offer.
Brimming with hundreds of full-color photographs that profile attractive and practical approaches to strengthening the design of an existing garden or designing a new one, this gorgeous volume provides strikingly adaptable lessons in creating gardens with unrivaled style.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
J* Warren Schultz is a garden writer who is a former features editor at Garden Design magazine and former editor in chief of National Gardening mag?aine. The author of The Chemical-Free Lawn, he has also worked for Organic Gardening magazine and the New York Cooperative Extension. In 1992, he was presented with an Award of Excellence from the Garden Writers' Association of America for the Best Magazine Writing of the Year.
Carol Spier, a former senior editor at Meredith Books, is a writer, editor, and designer who divides her time between Manhattan and her two-hundred-year-old home in Sag Harbor, New York. She has been an editor at Woman'sDay, McCall's Needlework & Crafts, and Creative Ideas for Living, where she has produced many creative lifestyle stories.
Front jacket photography: ©Cuve Nichols Back jacket photography: ©John Glover Jacket design: Maria Mann
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