The Big Book of Garden Designs

The Big Book of Garden Designs
Author: Editors of Sunset Books
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-01-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780376031891

With more than 120 garden plans designed to fit every imaginable landscape situation, this new volume guides readers through the issues that perplex everyone planning a garden.

Modern Garden Design

Modern Garden Design
Author: Ulrich Timm
Publisher: Becker Josest Volk Verlag
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9783938100424

Garden design is exciting in part because it reflects the architectural language of the house, as well as the preferences of the garden owner. This work features photographs by Gary Rogers, one of the world's foremost garden photographers.

The Big Book of Gardening Skills

The Big Book of Gardening Skills
Author: Garden Way Publishing
Publisher: Storey Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1993
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

A comprehensive, generously illustrated guide for both beginners and advanced gardeners on how to grow flowers, fruits, herbs, vegetables, lawns, and shrubs.

The Less Is More Garden

The Less Is More Garden
Author: Susan Morrison
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 160469839X

“Big ideas for your small garden.” —Garden Design When it comes to gardens, bigger isn’t always better, and The Less Is More Garden shows you how to take advantage of every square foot of space. Designer Susan Morrison offers savvy tips to match your landscape to your lifestyle, draws on years of experience to recommend smart plants with seasonal interest, and suggests hardscape materials to personalize your space. Inspiring photographs highlight a variety of inspiring small-space designs from around the country. With The Less Is More Garden, you’ll see how limited space can mean unlimited opportunities for gorgeous garden design.

The Big Book of Design Ideas

The Big Book of Design Ideas
Author: David E. Carter
Publisher: Collins Design
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2000
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780688179861

This major new reference contains an assemblage of visual concepts from around the world. Categories include designs for annual reports, books, calenders, catalogs, editorial layouts, exhibits, labels and tags, letterheads, menus, outdoor advertising, packaging, posters, promotion materials, shopping bags, T-shirts, and more. 900 color illustrations.

New Garden Design: Inspiring Private Paradises

New Garden Design: Inspiring Private Paradises
Author: Zahid Sardar
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1423613813

From vegetable and succulent gardens to sculpture and rose gardens to mountain and waterfront gardens, New Garden Design covers a range of interpretations incorporating walls, fountains, pavilions, canals, pools, terraces and groves in unexpected ways. The resulting new garden is a pleasure garden vested with spiritual, symbolic and ecological intent. A modernist interpretation of Roman stone furniture and freestanding walls punctuate the space behind a 1970s ranch house. A home designed by Bernard Maybeck is accented with a freehand composition of urns, cement pipes and rusty objects, as well as over a thousand species of plants. A grove of olive trees underplanted with rosemary and lavender fields gives personality to two acres surrounding a house designed by modernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.

The Humane Gardener

The Humane Gardener
Author: Nancy Lawson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-04-18
Genre:
ISBN: 1616896175

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Big Book of Pretty & Playful Appliqué

Big Book of Pretty & Playful Appliqué
Author: Carol Armstrong
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1617457264

Add a lively touch of nature to your quilting with this massive collection of realistic flora and fauna appliqué designs. Carol Armstrong's stunning garden quilts and true-to-life critters have changed the way we appliqué. Now her best work is featured together in a single volume—a treasure trove of appliqué delights! Sew one hundred and sixty patterns from blooming flowers and birds in flight to household pets as loveable as your own dog or cat. Learn how to trace designs using a lightbox, and practice with four projects to showcase any combination of designs.

The Big Book of Graphic Design

The Big Book of Graphic Design
Author: Roger Walton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007-11-06
Genre: Graphic arts
ISBN: 0061215244

This anthology features material from established and emerging major designers and is filled with hundreds of examples that are forging new graphic ground across a complete range of visual media. For ease of reference, illustrators' work is categorised as follows: Editorial: Magazines and books, Stationery: Corporate and personal, Corporate: Identity and brochures, Advertising: Editorial, billboards, and posters, Music: Record sleeves, CD covers and posters, Exhibitions: Installations and signage, Packaging, Websites. It contains a visual index for quick reference and designers' contact details.

Big Book of Small House Designs

Big Book of Small House Designs
Author: Don Metz
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2012-09-19
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1603762825

75 unique designs for attractive, efficient, environmentally friendly homes. Now available in paperback, this collection of 75 plans for small homes offers more than 500 usable blueprints and other illustrations for a variety of living spaces suitable for every environment and style, from a New England farmhouse to a sophisticated townhouse in the city to a Santa Fe ranch. The designs include site drawings, floor plans, elevation drawings, section drawings, perspective drawings, and exploded views. A brief introduction to each home describes its setting, the philosophy behind the design and its intended use, materials used, recommended landscaping, and more. Many of the homes come with money-saving and environmentally sound features such as solar panels and water heaters, wood stoves, ceiling fans, airlock entries, wind power alternatives, and natural gas heaters.