Piet Oudolf's gardens excite the senses and stir the emotions. Representing a giant step forward from the conventional colour-themed border, this new approach to gardening gives just as much emphasis to form, texture, light and movement as it does to colour. Individual plants are used as harmonious elements in luxuriant and atmospheric plantings. Written in collaboration with Noel Kingsbury, "Designing with Plants" is an informative and visually breathtaking study of Piet Oudolf's planting theory and practice, and it ...
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Piet Oudolf's gardens excite the senses and stir the emotions. Representing a giant step forward from the conventional colour-themed border, this new approach to gardening gives just as much emphasis to form, texture, light and movement as it does to colour. Individual plants are used as harmonious elements in luxuriant and atmospheric plantings. Written in collaboration with Noel Kingsbury, "Designing with Plants" is an informative and visually breathtaking study of Piet Oudolf's planting theory and practice, and it provides all the advice necessary to create the same effects in your own garden. Beginning with the building blocks of planting design, a visual sourcebook of Planting Palettes illustrates some of the huge choice available in terms of form, texture and colour. The following chapter explains, with the use of planting plans and diagrams, how to combine these basic elements to create stunning and sculptural planting schemes. Theory is put into practice in Planting Moods in which stunning photography demonstrates how to create a particular feeling or atmosphere, and Year-Round Planting emphasizes the importance of choosing plants to give value throughout the seasons so that they contribute to the garden in death as well as in life. Rounding off with a detailed directory of key plants, "Designing with Plants" is destined to become an inspiration to all gardeners who wish to create, in Piet's words, 'an impression and an expression of nature'.
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Used: Very Good. Size: 9x0x10; Clean and unmarked. Some minor cosmetic shelf wear. From a private collection. Very good condition. Comes from non smoking home.
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Good Condition in Good jacket. 9781840910551. Home and Garden. VG-/Good+ 2003 reprint Conran hardback, unclipped DJ, profusely illustrated. Some rubbing wear along edges of boards, dust-jacket a little loose along front edge, minor spotting to top edge of pages, bright and unmarked. Size: 9.76 x 0.87 x 11.38 inches. 160 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Gardening; Home and Garden; Gardening; Garden design and planning; ISBN: 1840910550. ISBN/EAN: 9781840910551. Dewey Code: 635.9. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 089001.
