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| Author | : Daniell Cornell |
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| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
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| ISBN | : 9780981674353 |
As part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980 regional initiative, the exhibition Backyard Oasis, mounted by Palm Springs Art Museum in 2012, examines photographs of swimming pools from 1945 to 1982 as visual analogs of the ideals and expectations associated with Southern California. These images of individual water-based environs in the arid landscape are an integral part of the region's identity, a microcosm of the hopes and disillusionments of the country's post-World War II ethos. The catalogue contains an introductory essay providing an overview of the development of the swimming pool and its attendant aesthetic and social culture. Authored by the exhibition's organizing curator and its contributing research team members, the catalogue's five chapters are: Exposed Desires: Poolside Reflections on Celebrity, Daniell Cornell, Senior Curator and Deputy Director for Art, Palm Springs Art Museum; Swimming Alone: The Backyard Pool in Cold War California, Jennifer Watts, Curator of Photographs, Huntington Library, San Marino; Designing Nature: The Pool in the Garden, Robert Stearns, Independent Curator and Project Coordinator, Palm Springs; From Beefcake to Skatecake: Subcultures and Masculinity, Tyler Stallings, Director, Sweeny Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside; Dystopia and the Swimming Pool, Dick Hebdige, Professor of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara.
| Author | : Barrett Williams |
| Publisher | : Barrett Williams |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2024-08-28 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
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**Transform Your Yard into a Beautiful Backyard Oasis** Step into your dream garden with "Beautiful Backyard Oasis," the ultimate guide for creating a serene retreat right in your own backyard. If you've ever aspired to have a stunning outdoor space that's easy to maintain, this eBook is your blueprint to achieving that goal. Dive into Chapter 1 with a comprehensive introduction to low-maintenance backyard oases. Discover the incredible benefits of minimal upkeep gardens, understand your climate and soil, and master the key principles of design to start your transformation journey. Navigate through the crucial stages of planning and budgeting in Chapter 2, ensuring you create a functional layout that suits both your vision and your wallet. From there, delve into the world of hardscaping in Chapter 3, where you'll learn to choose durable materials and install low-maintenance features that stand the test of time. In Chapters 4 and 5, explore water features and plant selection tailored for easy care, including drought-tolerant and native plants that thrive with minimal attention. Efficient irrigation systems and lawn alternatives are covered in Chapters 6 and 7, offering modern solutions for smart water use and low-maintenance care. Chapter 8 introduces you to the versatility of container gardening and raised beds, while Chapter 9 highlights the best low-maintenance trees and shrubs for your space. Outdoor furniture, lighting, and simple structures are tackled in Chapters 10, 11, and 12, providing practical tips for selecting weather-resistant pieces and effortless lighting solutions. Design inviting outdoor entertaining areas with ease in Chapter 13, and follow the seasonal care tips in Chapter 14 to keep your oasis looking impeccable all year round. Attract wildlife seamlessly with Chapter 15’s hassle-free bird-friendly, butterfly, and bee garden ideas. Address common garden issues with confidence in Chapter 16, and maintain your garden using the expert advice in Chapter 17. Be inspired by real-life case studies and transformations in Chapter 18, and learn the secrets of sustaining your beautiful oasis over time in Chapter 19. Finally, wrap up your garden journey with the essential takeaways and further resources provided in Chapter 20, ensuring your backyard oasis continues to flourish. "Beautiful Backyard Oasis" is your complete guide to creating a stunning, low-maintenance garden that offers tranquility and beauty with minimal effort. Embark on your backyard transformation today!
| Author | : Tim Newbury |
| Publisher | : Reader's Digest Association |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Backyard gardens |
| ISBN | : 9780762105885 |
This unique concept has pre-planned, fully envisioned templates--40 designs, representing specific styles. Down to the last detail, from layout to a wide range of plants. Illustrated with over 500 full-color photos, easy-to-follow drawings, dynamic tips, and mix-and-match features to adapt each design to suit your own space.
| Author | : Isa Hendry Eaton |
| Publisher | : Ten Speed Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2020-02-04 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 039958286X |
A stylishly photographed guide to creating lush, layered, dramatic little gardens no matter the size of your available space--an urban patio, a tiny backyard, or even just a pot by your door. Petite gardens align with the movement to live smaller and create a life with less stuff and more room for living. But a more eco-friendly and efficient space doesn't have to sacrifice style. In Small Garden Style, garden designer Isa Hendry Eaton and lifestyle writer Jennifer Blaise Kramer show you how to use good design to create a joyful, elegant, and exciting yet compact outdoor living space for entertaining or relaxing. A style quiz helps you focus in on your own personal garden style, be it traditional, modern, colorful, eclectic, minimalist, or globally inspired, then utilize every inch of your yard by considering the horizontal, vertical, and overhead spaces. You'll learn how to design stunning planters and container gardens using succulents, grasses, vibrant-colored pots, and more. Hendry Eaton and Blaise Kramer recommend their favorite plants and decor for small gardens, along with lawn alternatives and inspiration for making garden accents such as a fire pit, front door wreath, instant mini orchard, boulder birdbath, patterned vines, perfumed wall, and faux fountain with cascading plants. However small your garden, Small Garden Style will transform it into a magical, modern outdoor oasis.
| Author | : Nicole Johnsey Burke |
| Publisher | : Cool Springs Press |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2020-04-14 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 0760366861 |
Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting—with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance What crops are best for your kitchen garden A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro Season-by-season growing guides It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.
| Author | : Ken Druse |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 625 |
| Release | : 2015-04-14 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 1613126042 |
The author of The Natural Shade Garden offers a comprehensive new guide to climate-conscious gardening—beautifully illustrated with 400 photos. There is a new generation of gardeners who are planting gardens not only for their visual beauty but also for their ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In The New Shade Garden, Ken Druse provides expert advice on creating a shade garden with an emphasis on the adjustments necessary for our changing climate. Druse examines common problems facing today's gardeners, from addressing the deer situation to watering plants without stressing limited resources. Detailing all aspects of the gardening process, The New Shade Garden covers basic topics such as designing your own garden, pruning trees, preparing soil for planting, and the vast array of flowers and greenery that grow best in the shade. Perfect for new and seasoned gardeners alike, this encyclopedic manual provides all the information you need to start or improve upon your own shade garden.
| Author | : Susan Gottlieb |
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| Release | : 2016-11-01 |
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| ISBN | : 9780692783399 |
| Author | : Eric Toensmeier |
| Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 1 |
| Release | : 2013-02-08 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 1603584005 |
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.
| Author | : Jan Johnsen |
| Publisher | : The Countryman Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 1682683974 |
“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”.
| Author | : Sherry Petersik |
| Publisher | : Artisan |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2015-07-14 |
| Genre | : House & Home |
| ISBN | : 1579656765 |
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
