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Winterland : create a beautiful garden for every season / Cathy Rees ; photographs by Lisa Looke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hudson, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1616898720
  • 9781616898724
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB439.5 .R447 2021
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"--Summary: 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
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB454.3.W6 R44 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800187791
Total holds: 0

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

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