Garden Design Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to Garden Materials and Structures

by David Stevens

Book Overview

A design-oriented guide to choosing and using garden materials. Entries cover every dimension of the garden and include hard and soft landscaping materials. A section shows how to age and match up... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850297320
• ISBN13: 9781850297321
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Reed Illustrated Books
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.8" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

Essential is right...

I have owned this book for several years now and still use it regularly as a design reference. The examples and illustrations are pretty much all classics whether historic, traditional, or contemporary, and always seem fresh to my eye each time I pick up the book.

An excellent resource of hardscape elements for the garden!

As a landscape architect, I find this book is an excellent resource for hardscape ideas for the garden. The book is divided into the basics planes of the garden ... floors, boundaries & dividers, overhead structures, etc. The wonderful photographics are invaluable as well as the discriptions telling the history, uses and construction of the site elements. I would recommend this book to professionals and weekend gardeners for its inspiration and knowledge.