Beyond the Lawn: Unique Outdoor Spaces for Modern Living

by Keith Davitt

Book Overview

"Grass is passe," says veteran landscape designer Keith Davitt. He goes beyond the traditional lawn in this book, now in paperback, in which he offers a number of fresh, new ideas for transforming... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564969576
• ISBN13: 9781564969576
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Recommended

Great book for those of us who want to dump the wasted space of a water hogging lawn and be creative. From simple to complex, a very nice collection of ideas and photos.

Great Book!

This is a great book for the gardener with little space. All of the gardens featured are pretty small by suburban standards. But none the less, the gardens and designs Keith Davitt covers are spectacular. You will discover how to get rid of that same old boring lawn that everyone else has on the block. Davitt takes you through creating your very own unique garden with stone, brick, gravel, water and lots more. He covers why it works for the owner and the space given. It gives valuable insights for the gardener planning a new space.

Crafting a unique, personal, and relaxing atmosphere

Written by gardening expert Keith Davitt (winner of the Herald Award for Excellence in Garden Communication), Beyond The Lawn: Unique Outdoor Spaces For Modern Living is a simply beautiful and exceptionally "user friendly" sourcebook of ideas for creating harmony with stone, brick gravel, rock, water, herbs, conifers, planted pots, native and wild plants. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photography, Beyond The Lawn is a treat to page through and recommended for gardeners everywhere looking to add a bit of originality to the grounds outside their home. Offering a vast panoply of materials for crafting a unique, personal, and relaxing atmosphere, Beyond The Lawn is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to professional and personal gardening reference collections.

Many unusual beautiful gardens & good design analysis

This book is full of pictures of unusual and beautiful gardens all very different from one another. I especially enjoyed seeing the variety of what is possible. The text focuses mainly on design with discussion on style and analysis of what works and why. Although I think Keith Davitt's first book "Small Spaces Beautiful Gardens" was a superior book with more information on how each garden was created and before & after pictures, I still highly recommend this book for its many examples and design tips.