Easy Garden Design: 12 Simple Steps to Creating Successful Gardens and Landscapes

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Whether you are designing your first garden or you are a professional landscape designer, this book should be the one you reach for first! In 12 simple steps, the garden takes shape before your very eyes — even before you buy the first plant!

In lively format and with encouraging helpfulness, author Janet Macunovich takes you through this simple, no-fail process. Anticipating your questions at every point, it's like having a design ...
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Whether you are designing your first garden or you are a professional landscape designer, this book should be the one you reach for first! In 12 simple steps, the garden takes shape before your very eyes — even before you buy the first plant!

In lively format and with encouraging helpfulness, author Janet Macunovich takes you through this simple, no-fail process. Anticipating your questions at every point, it's like having a design professional at your elbow! Full of understandable graphics, Easy Garden Design takes the guesswork out of visualizing how your garden will look when it's finished — or whether it will fit into its setting the way you hope it will. Trial and Error is avoided and Success is guaranteed with this "one-step-at-a-time" approach!

Responsible for taking the mystery out of garden design, author Janet Macunovich is a popular garden designer, teacher, and lecturer. Her approach is based on years of experience working directly with home gardeners and contractors. She lives in Waterford, Michigan, where she owns her own business, Perennial Favorites.

Includes site assessment and combinations of plantings for workable, attractive gardens.

A step-by-step manual for successful garden and landscape design. Easy-to-master principles and techniques follow a chronological order that helps readers access their growing and site conditions, select an appropriate focal point within the garden, and combine plantings that accent, frame, and complement those focal points. 60 drawings.

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Macunovich, a Michigan landscape designer, addresses this book to the beginning landscape professional and to home gardeners with ``a year or more of dirt on their knees,'' who recognize the value of investing time and energy in planning their gardens. Her 12-step approach emphasizes the preliminary work of assessing the purpose of the garden, the site, and the financial and physical resources of the person who will maintain the planting. Only then does she introduce the complexities of plant selection, color theory, focal points and frames, and other design elements, illustrated with sample checklists, sketches, and plans. She also explains how to interpret sun/shade designations on nursery pot tags and to analyze entries in plant encyclopedias for characteristics that contribute to the design. She concludes with a very up-to-date bibliography. Highly recommended for public libraries.-- Beth Clewis, Prince William P.L., Va.
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Subtitled, 12 Simple Steps to Creating Successful Gardens and Landscapes. There may be 12, but we all know they're not so simple; this guide clearly spells out how to think about a garden and how to make plans, beginning with a list of reasons people want gardens in the first place. Plastic comb binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780882667911
  • Publisher: Storey Books
  • Publication date: 10/3/1992
  • Edition description: SPIRAL
  • Pages: 176
  • Product dimensions: 8.81 (w) x 11.03 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Introductions

PART TWO: Twelve Steps to Successful Designs
One: Ask "Why Do You Want a Garden?"
Two: Establish a Garden Budget
Three: Think About the Caretaker
Four: Assess the Site
Five: Make a Plant List
Six: Pick a Focal Point Within the Garden Site
Seven: Make a Scale Drawing of the Garden Site
Eight: Place a Focal Point Plant
Nine: Frame the Focal Point
Ten: Add Secondary Focal Points and Frames
Eleven: Outline the Garden
Twelve: Adjust Before Planting

PART THREE: Where to Go From Here
Plant Encyclopedias
Planting From a Design
Rearranging an Existing Garden
Branching Out: Whole Landscapes

Index
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