Smith & Hawken: Garden Ornament

By Linda Joan Smith

Book Overview

Amid the naturally decorative bounty of flowers and shrubs, the right ornament in the right place can transform a garden. Generously illustrated throughout in full-color photographs, "Garden Ornament "is a sourcebook of inspiration and practical ideas. "Garden Ornament" covers everything a gardener needs to know to add magical finishing touches to the hard-earned work of digging and planting. Here are decorative ornaments (status, obelisks, sundials), and working ornaments (flowerpots, bee skeps, scarecrows). Detailed information on materials and their care, from classic cast stone to contemporary cast resin. Design menus for cultural effect and information on lighting a garden, on seasonal ornamentation and on exploring the irreverent.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761112022
• ISBN13: 9780761112020
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.6" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A picturesque and colorful overview of garden ornaments

At first glance, this seems like a coffee table book, and it could be. However, you'll discover it offers depth on the subject. Additionally, you'll want to read this while thinking about installing your garden ornaments. Inside, you'll find a wide variety of ornaments suitable for different styles, purposes, and historical periods in various gardens. You might want to reconsider how to arrange your garden, or at least improve it. In our backyard garden, we actually have a metal armillary sphere that is mounted on a tufa (tuff) stand as a focal point. It is quite impressive. Nevertheless, as this book points out, even something as simple as seashells can also be a part of it if well placed in the garden. For some inexplicable reason, my wife will not let me place one of them, those naked Greek ladies, in the front yard. Don't think that when you're finished reading this book, you're on your own. In the back is a source guide with companies' names and addresses, where you can pick up the various ornaments or ask about them.

A picturesque and colorful overview of garden ornaments

At first glance, this looks like a coffee table book and so it could be. However, you will find this has a depth on the subject. In addition, you will want to read this while contemplating installing your own garden ornaments. In this book, you will find a large variety of ornaments for different styles for different purposes from different times in different gardens. You may want to rethink how to layout your garden or at least to enhance it. In our backyard garden, we actually have a metal armillary-sphere that is mounted on a tufa (tuff) stand as a focal point. It is quite impressive. Nevertheless, as this book points out even with something as simple as seashells can also be a part of if well placed in the garden. For some inexplicable reason my wife will not let me place one of them there naked Greek ladies in the front yard. Don't think that when you're finished reading this book you're on your own. In the back is a source guide with companies names and addresses where you can pick up the various ornaments or ask about them.