Gardens Of Delight

Author: Erica James
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 140910754X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 557

Book Description
'A captivating read: beautifully written and heartrendingly sad' Telegraph The Gardens of Delight brochure promises the opportunity to visit some of the most beautiful gardens in the Lake Como area of Italy. For Lucy, the chance to go to Italy offers more than just gardens. Lake Como is where her father lives, and the last time she saw him was when she was just a teenager. Recently married Helen and her wealthy husband have just moved into the Old Rectory. With her husband spending so much time away from home, Helen throws herself into caring for the garden. But Helen needs help - and friends - and so decides to take the plunge and join the local Garden Club. Conrad isn't the least bit interested in gardening. Widowed for five years, his life revolves around work and humouring Mac, his elderly uncle who lives with him, and who has expressed a desire to go on the Gardens of Delight tour. Reluctantly, Conrad agrees to accompany him. 'Anything for a peaceful life,' he concedes. But a peaceful life is the last thing any of them are in for...

In the Garden of Delight

Author: Lily Hardy Hammond
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387090382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

In & Out of Paris

Author: Zahid Sardar
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423632710
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
Among the more than 30 great and small projects within In & Out of Paris are Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, and Courances—all classic André Le Nôtre–style French gardens. Also discover the Paris gardens of celebrated artist Jean-Michel Othoniel and art aficionado Pierre Bergé, architect Kenzo Takada’s Japanese retreat in the Bastille, Australian couturier Martin Grant’s tiny terrace in the Marais, Mexican painter MariCarmen Hernandez’s Montmartre rooftop, and American architect Michael Herrman’s homage to Le Corbusier’s surreal ChampsÉlysées garden for bon vivant Charles de Beistegui. Modern masters Louis Benech, Gilles Clement, Pascal Cribier, Christian Fournet, Camille Muller, Hugues Peuvergne, and Pierre-Alexandre Risser are also featured, representing a new era of experiments, color, and asymmetry in the Paris garden. ZAHID SARDAR is a San Francisco–based editor, writer, and curator specializing in architecture, interiors, and design. His work has appeared in Dwell, Interiors, Western Interiors & Design, Interior Design, House & Garden, Elle Décor, House Beautiful, and Landscape Architecture. He has taught design history at the California College of the Arts and has written several other books, including West Coast Modern and New Garden Design.

Celeste's Garden Delights

Author: Celeste Longacre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991653607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
You've heard it: You are what you eat. The evidence is mounting that what you put into your mouth matters. What better way is there to know exactly what you are eating than to grow some of your own food or get to know your farmer? Celeste has decades of experience providing good, nutritious food for her family. You can do it! Celeste's Garden Delights will show you how to grow, can, ferment, freeze, dry and root cellar fresh produce. If you can't do it all, just do what you can. Start small. Even if you live in an apartment, you can grow a tomato plant or two in pots on the balcony or patio. Or, you can take a few hours in the summer to buy and prepare berries or corn for your freezer. If you have a lawn and would like to make part of it into a garden, the section on No-Till Gardening will tell you how. Thinking about keeping chickens? Read the section on Backyard Chickens to see if it's something you truly want to do. Food is usually less expensive when it is in season. Get together with some friends to take advantage of bulk buying. Farmers generally give you good discounts if you buy large quantities or "seconds" (food with a few bruises). You can do it! There's no better feeling than having an actual relationship with your food. Homegrown and homemade (or locally grown and made) are truly the best.

Cultivating Delight

Author: Diane Ackerman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060505362
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
In the mode of her bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, Cultivating Delight is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it.

Gardens of Use and Delight

Author: Jiggs Gardner
Publisher: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub.
ISBN: 9781555913243
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tools and inspriation for blending garden form with function and creating an integrated garden.

Gardens of Earthly Delight

Author: George Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935738114
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
A modern alchemist falls prey to a magic darker than his own. The Antichrist's mother goes on the run in Spain. In his garage a physicist builds a tribute to his beloved. An old man and his mule tour the roadside wastelands of the Gulf of Mexico. Sixteen stories span the world from Texas to Paris by way of Damascus. Filtered through the lens of the strange and uncanny, everyday events take on a sinister aspect. These gardens are delightful, but a serpent lurks behind each blushing fruit, beckoning the reader into the shadows. Gardens of Earthly Delight reaches beneath the surface of simple stories and casts them in an ominous, tragic-comic light. Heists, revenge, a trip to the casino, author George Williams takes all of them and makes them new, exotic and not a little bit disturbing.

Garden of Equal Delights

Author: Anni Kelsey
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1911193759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
A guide to the practice and principles of forest gardening

Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

Author: Jan Johnsen
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1682683974
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
“Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape—boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.” - Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen’s new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to “co-creating with nature” will have you saying, “I can do that!’ This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using ‘real world’ solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as ‘Soften a Corner”, “Paint it Black”, and “Hide and Reveal”.

Gardens of Illusion

Author: Sara Maitland
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304354344
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
The playful spirit grows in these beautifully photographed gardens, which delight with the unexpected and visual enchantment. The unusual presentation of unique landscapes bypasses ordinary horticultural know-how and conventional design principles to delve into garden wit, illusion, and trickery. ..".whimsical...This literate, imaginative work may not lead you to create a witty garden, but it will certainly cause you to know one when you see it."--"The New York Times."