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Beyond the garden : designing home landscapes with natural systems / Dana Davidsen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, [2022]Edition: First editionDescription: 221 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 1616899077
  • 9781616899073
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB472 .D27 2022
Summary: This ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects. Through twenty distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-concious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB472 .D28 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800189813
Total holds: 0

Includes a private landscape on Whidbey Island, WA.

This ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects. Through twenty distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-concious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.

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