The Front Garden: New Approaches to Landscape Design - Brossura

Smith, Mary Riley

 
9780618083428: The Front Garden: New Approaches to Landscape Design

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The front yard is the stepchild of landscape design, ignored in the current enthusiasm for gardening. Typically, with its high-maintenance lawn and overgrown foundation planting, the front yard doesn't enhance the house or provide useful living space for the homeowner. Yet as new properties become smaller and old ones grow shadier, the front garden may be the best place to grow vegetables or flowers, to sit outside in comfort and privacy, or even to swim or play tennis.
Mary Riley Smith, a landscape designer who has often dealt with poorly planned and underused front properties, has filled this book with creative ways to make your own front garden beautiful and functional. She shows how to design paths, driveways, and parking areas and how to camouflage unattractive but necessary structures. For privacy, she describes the different virtues of fences, clipped hedges, and loose, flowing hedgerows.
When it comes to planting in front of the house, the choices are surprising: instead of a lawn, you might create a colorful cottage garden, an edible landscape, a drought-tolerant meadow of regional native plants, a sea of ornamental grasses, or even a romantic orchard. All of these landscapes, and dozens more from all parts of the country, are illustrated with beautiful photographs. THE FRONT GARDEN concludes with nine case histories, including the landscape designers' plans, that will give you even more ideas for turning your front yard into a beautiful garden.

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Recensione

“One of the best garden books of the last twenty-five years.” -- Avant Gardener

“Stroll down Main Street and you’re likely to meet front yards dominated by swatches of greensward and spans of driveway that are relieved only by a few halfhearted foundation plantings. This book is a bold attempt to make some changes in that monotonous menu.” -- Fine Gardening

“This is a marvelous book by an American expert whose experience and sophistication will help you to create that beautiful front garden that you’ve always wanted.” -- Garden Book Club

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Book by Smith Mary Riley

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9780395552377: The Front Garden: New Approaches to Landscape Design

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0395552370 ISBN 13:  9780395552377
Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin, 1991
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