Winterland : create a beautiful garden for every season /
Rees, Cathy (Horticulturist),
Winterland : create a beautiful garden for every season / Cathy Rees ; photographs by Lisa Looke. - First edition. - 191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189).
Foreword / by Rodney Eason -- Introduction: Winter garden reflections -- Design: revealing garden structures -- Contrast: emphasizing polarities during the season of extremes -- Embellish: adorning the garden for year-round enjoyment -- Care: creating a big impact through small acts -- Share: making the most of your garden during the quiet season. Part I: Design: Revealing the Bones of the Garden -- Design Basics -- Access -- Plants: Shape, Form, and Scale -- Texture -- Layers -- Evergreens -- Hedges -- Edges -- Part II: Contrast: Emphasizing Polarities During the Season of Extremes -- Sun/Shadow -- Light/Dark -- Snow/Bareness -- Uniformity/Diversity -- Wildness/Tranquility -- Micro/Macro -- Part III: Embellish: Adorning the Garden for Year-Round Enjoyment -- Lighting -- Ornament -- Structures -- Stone -- Part IV: Care: Creating a Big Impact through Small Acts -- Maintenance -- Deer protection -- Pruning basics -- Special pruning techniques -- Part V: Share: Making the Most of Your Garden during the Quiet Season -- Bringing the outdoors in -- Getting outside in winter -- Gardening for the birds -- Creating habitat.
"A practical, accessible, and lushly photographed guide to making your garden a place of beauty and inspiration during the winter months as well as throughout the year"-- The dramatic stillness of the garden in winter presents abundant opportunities to deepen our connection with nature. Rees invites you to explore and create rich and compelling all-season environments, from positioning a distinctive tree to capture the first rays of a December sunrise to reconceiving the flow of an entire landscape -- adapted from back cover
1616898720 9781616898724
2020055366
GBC1D6029 bnb
020298748 Uk
Winter gardening.
Winter gardening--Maine.
Winter garden plants.
Plants in winter.
SB439.5 / .R447 2021
SB439.5 / .R447 2021
Winterland : create a beautiful garden for every season / Cathy Rees ; photographs by Lisa Looke. - First edition. - 191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189).
Foreword / by Rodney Eason -- Introduction: Winter garden reflections -- Design: revealing garden structures -- Contrast: emphasizing polarities during the season of extremes -- Embellish: adorning the garden for year-round enjoyment -- Care: creating a big impact through small acts -- Share: making the most of your garden during the quiet season. Part I: Design: Revealing the Bones of the Garden -- Design Basics -- Access -- Plants: Shape, Form, and Scale -- Texture -- Layers -- Evergreens -- Hedges -- Edges -- Part II: Contrast: Emphasizing Polarities During the Season of Extremes -- Sun/Shadow -- Light/Dark -- Snow/Bareness -- Uniformity/Diversity -- Wildness/Tranquility -- Micro/Macro -- Part III: Embellish: Adorning the Garden for Year-Round Enjoyment -- Lighting -- Ornament -- Structures -- Stone -- Part IV: Care: Creating a Big Impact through Small Acts -- Maintenance -- Deer protection -- Pruning basics -- Special pruning techniques -- Part V: Share: Making the Most of Your Garden during the Quiet Season -- Bringing the outdoors in -- Getting outside in winter -- Gardening for the birds -- Creating habitat.
"A practical, accessible, and lushly photographed guide to making your garden a place of beauty and inspiration during the winter months as well as throughout the year"-- The dramatic stillness of the garden in winter presents abundant opportunities to deepen our connection with nature. Rees invites you to explore and create rich and compelling all-season environments, from positioning a distinctive tree to capture the first rays of a December sunrise to reconceiving the flow of an entire landscape -- adapted from back cover
1616898720 9781616898724
2020055366
GBC1D6029 bnb
020298748 Uk
Winter gardening.
Winter gardening--Maine.
Winter garden plants.
Plants in winter.
SB439.5 / .R447 2021
SB439.5 / .R447 2021