The Conran Octopus Garden Book
by David Stevens, Ursula Buchan
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This guide to garden design in the 1990s is both a sourcebook of design, featuring 500 colour photographs from around the world, and a manual of techniques, ranging from basic sowing and planting methods to the addition of elements such as paving, water features, boundaries, lighting and statuary.Tags
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Good sections on different garden stylrd (cottage, japanese, counrtyard etc). Book is split into four sections. Section 1: designing a garden: making a plan, principles of design and planting, site prep and gives 10 example designs. Section 2: garden elements: boundaries, surfaces, features, water and living in the garden. Section 3: top 100 plants. Section 4: gardening techniques. Plenty of pictures, diagrams and "how to" backed by thorough text explanations.
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David Stevens is the winner of eleven Chelsea Flower Show gold medals. He has hosted two popular garden design series on television and is the author of many successful gardening books. He lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Genres
- Home & Garden, Nonfiction, Art & Design
- DDC/MDS
- 712.6 — Arts & recreation Area planning & landscape architecture Landscape architecture (Landscape design) Private parks and grounds; home gardens
- LCC
- SB473 .S74 — Agriculture Horticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breeding Plant culture Landscape gardening. Landscape architecture
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
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