The Planting Design Handbook

Author: Nick Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000151948
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 750

Book Description
Since the first edition was published in 1992, Nick Robinson's The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. It remains one of the few titles written by a practicing landscape architect and educator who is also a horticulturalist and accomplished plantsman, and which deals with the application of planting design on a large scale in landscape architecture and urban design projects. The Planting Design Handbook is distinctive for its elegant integration of an ecological approach with an understanding of visual and spatial composition. It emphasizes the role of vegetation layers and designed plant communities in complex and diverse plant assemblages for all kinds of sites and uses. This expanded and comprehensively updated third edition still provides a complete examination of principles and practice of design for public, institutional and private landscapes. It takes account of developments in theory and practice, especially in the use of perennials, and reflects a variety of media and approaches current in landscape architecture and design. All chapters have been revised and re-written to ensure updated references and new references have been added. Many new photographs of planting and projects around the world have been included, with examples of current professional drawings to illustrate the design process. It is generously illustrated, including a colour section and the beautifully detailed line drawings of the Chinese architect and painter Jia-Hua Wu.

The Book of Garden Design

Author: John Brookes
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Step-by-step guide to creating garden designs that includes instructions for blueprints, using patterns, and measuring.

Elements of Planting Design

Author: Richard L. Austin
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471398882
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Complete coverage of the art and science of planting design This comprehensive guide provides clear, step-by-stepinstructions for creating a planting composition, from preplanningand developing a preliminary design to implementing the final plan.It enables designers to strike a balance between technicalissues-such as regional vegetation requirements, soil grade,and climate, noise, and erosion control-and aestheticconsiderations, including color, form, and seasonal variation. Generously illustrated with more than 300 line drawings andphotographs that reinforce and clarify the material in eachchapter, Elements of Planting Design: * Offers a full overview of the ecology of planting design * Provides in-depth information on plants as design elements * Covers planting design for large- and small-scale residentialand commercial sites * Includes challenging study questions and sample projects

New Naturalism

Author: Kelly D. Norris
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 0760368201
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Recreate the wild beauty and thriving ecology of meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsides in your own garden. In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens created with stylish yet naturalistic plantings that mimic the wild spaces we covet—far from the contrived, formal, high-maintenance plantings of the past. Through a basic introduction to plant biology and ecology, you’ll learn how to design and grow a lush, thriving home garden by harnessing the power of plant layers and palettes defined by nature, not humans. The next generation of home landscapes don’t consist of plants in a row, pruned to perfection and reliant on pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides to survive. Instead, today’s stunning landscapes convey nature’s inherent beauty. These gardens are imbued with romance and emotion, yet they have so much more to offer than their gorgeous aesthetics. Naturalistic garden designs, such as those featured in this groundbreaking new book, contribute to positive environmental change by increasing biodiversity, providing a refuge for wildlife, and reconnecting humans to nature. In the pages of New Naturalism you’ll find: Planting recipes for building meadows, prairies, and other grassland-inspired open plantings even in compact, urban settings Nature-inspired ways to upgrade existing foundation plantings, shrub beds, and flower borders to a wilder aesthetic while still managing the space Inspiration for taking sidewalk and driveway plantings and turning them into visually soft, welcoming spaces for humans and wildlife alike Ideas for turning shady landscapes into canopied retreats that celebrate nature Creative ways to make an ecologically vibrant garden in even the smallest of spaces New Naturalism approaches the planting beds around our homes as ecological systems. If properly designed and planted, these areas can support positive environmental change, increase plant and animal diversity, and create a more resilient space that’s less reliant on artificial inputs. And they do it all while looking beautiful and improving property values.

The Basics of Planting Design

Author: Lucy Huntington
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 183764537X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description

Planting Design

Author: Patrick Mooney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138026056
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
"Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well understood. This book meshes the art of planting design with an understanding of how humans respond to natural environments. Beginning with an understanding of human needs, preferences, and responses to landscape, the author interprets the ways in which an understanding of the human- environment interaction can inform planting design. Many of the principles and techniques that may be used in planting design are beautifully illustrated in full colour with examples by leading landscape architects and designers from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia including Andrea Cochran, Richard Hartlage, Melody Redekop, Shunmyo Masuno, Allyson Mendenhall, Piet Oudolf, Christine Ten Eyck and Kongjian Yu. The book stimulates thought, provides new direction and assists the reader to find their own unique design voice. Because there are many valid processes and intentions for landscape design, the book is not intended to be overly prescriptive. Rather than presenting a strict design method and accompanying set of rules, Planting Design provides information, insight and inspiration as a basis for developing the individual designer's own expression in this most challenging of art forms"--

The Basics of Planting Design

Author: Lucy Huntington
Publisher: Workshops on Garden Design
ISBN: 9781853411441
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Planting design is the selection and use of plants to achieve a designer's objectives. There are now many new and interesting planting ideas and fashions, but municipal planting in particular and some gardens as well, can be pretty dire through lack of careful planting design. What is needed for all garden designers - who may well have come to design via a deep interest in plants - is an understanding of the basics of this vitally important design discipline: designs are three-dimensional, to be walked in and round, and viewed from all sides; designs will change over time; plants live and die and need to be tended for maximum effect; there is a huge choice of plants, a working knowledge of which takes experience. There are many pitfalls to be met in planting, therefore, which can be largely avoided by getting the basics of planting design right. This book will help the designer to build a solid foundation for their future success and experience

Professional Planting Design

Author: Scott C. Scarfone
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471761397
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
"This is a great reference book for planting design, which is an arena where so many of us are hugely challenged. Information in it is well written, engaging, useful, accessible, and original." -- Holly H. Shimizu, Executive Director, United States Botanic Garden "A unique blend of classic planting-design principles and ecological plant-selection criteria." -- Scot Medbury, President, Brooklyn Botanic Garden "After reading the book, you will be able to experiment with nature and use its myriad of facets to make your own original statement. You will be ready to take risks and design exciting and original gardens." -- From the Foreword by James A. van Sweden, Oehme, van Sweden & Associates A comprehensive guide to the "high art" of designing mixed bed plantings When done successfully, mixed beds represent the pinnacle of planting design -- a living work of art in which small trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, bulbs, tropicals, and groundcovers combine to create a true feeling of place. Professional Planting Design initiates you into the principles of planting design and helps you develop the ability to think about the planting design process, so that you can develop your own effective compositions that sustain multi-seasonal interest. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Professional Planting Design covers the basics as well as the advanced concepts of planting design including: selecting plant characteristics, types of mixed bed plantings, structuring and composing mixed beds, creating mixed palettes for seasonal variation, designing in elevation and plan view, and choosing plants. You'll find coverage of design, landscape architecture, and horticulture interwoven throughout the guide, along with detailed steps for developing mixed bed planting compositions at a variety of scales for projects on both residential and commercial sites. Clear and concise yet thorough, this book will supplement your talent with the knowledge you need to create harmonious mixed plantings in the landscape that will provide continual interest throughout the seasons.

Garden Design and Landscaping

Author: Mark Parkes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
DID YOU KNOW THAT MORE THAN 80% OF BOOKS ABOUT GARDEN DESIGN ARE HARMFUL TO BEGINNERS?... The majority of garden design and landscaping books are good, but too difficult and technical and, above all, they provide sector-specific information that doesn't give you an overview of the process of creating a garden design necessary to understand how to apply it. Although garden design books contains much information, 73% of the readers considers them really confusing. Do you know why? Many books only focus on a specific area of the process of garden's creation, giving you lot of information, which is often too difficult and expensive for a beginner. If you start from scratch, you'll need an easy and step-by-step guide that allows your mind to picture a clear and complete view of the basis of the process needed to create the design of a garden. That's why I created this simple guide for beginners like you, since I have been working as a garden designer and architect for 20 years and I know exactly the doubts you have and the information you need. This is what you'll find in the book: Which are the basics of landscape design that you must absolutely know to create a garden; What you need to know before the creation of the garden in order to avoid mistakes that can be expensive; How to design a garden from the scratch; Low-cost strategies that allow you to save from 20% to 40% of your expenses; Selection of plants and flowers based on your climatic zone; All the elements that can't be forgotten in a garden design; How to choose your favorite garden's style; Creative ideas for your garden. After reading this book, you'll be sure that you won't make mistakes in planning and creating a landscape design, since you'll know all the "pieces of the puzzle" and you will be able to combine them in the right way. Just know that the first consultancy with Mark Parkers costs 1000 $, but thanks to this book you can have access to his 20-years-experience by paying a low price. So let me give you a piece of advice: instead of buying technical, difficult and confusing books that will drive you crazy, just learn the basis and the entire creation process of a garden design!! Don't waste more precious time: "SCROLL UP THIS PAGE AND CLICK THE BY NOW BUTTON"

Garden Design and Landscaping

Author: Mark Parkes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914068041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Thumb through "Garden Design and Landscaping" to develop YOUR green thumb! No matter what color your thumb is when you open this book, this DIY gardening guide can take your planting (and landscaping) skills from no-grow novice to gardening guru in a matter of PAGES. Written for the go-getting DIY-er, Garden Design and Landscaping helping you formulate a plan with the space you have and see that plan through-with all the posy particulars in between. To get to your backyard garden oasis, Mark Parkes, a gardener, landscape architect, designer, and creator of public and private gardens for over two decades, walks with you through this step-by-step guide to help you create your dream garden. Most landscaping books are NOT made for all-level gardeners, with too-technical terms, sector-specific information, and inapplicable tips that leave almost three-fourth of readers scratching their heads. However, Garden Design and Landscaping was created for beginners like you, not only giving you helpful information about the process of garden creation. In Garden Design and Landscaping, you'll learn about: - The basics of landscape design to create a garden - How to avoid expensive mistakes before the creation of the garden - Low-cost strategies that help you save money - The best selection of plants and flowers based on your climate zone - How to choose your garden's style and see it through - Creative ideas for your garden Garden Design and Landscaping can help guide you through the process, avoid beginner mistakes, and create a breathtaking landscape design to make your entire neighborhood jealous.