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Author
Publisher
The Countryman Press, A division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen?s new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to ?co-creating with nature? will have you saying, ?I can do that!?This info-packed, sumptuous book...
Author
Publisher
Pimpernel Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Beginning in the 1960s, John Brookes MBE (1933-2018) revolutionized garden design, with a new design philosophy and methodology that was rooted in the notion that gardens are about the people who live in them. Recognizing the demands of the contemporary lifestyle, he broke with previous labour-intensive garden design traditions and the emphasis on showcasing plants. Instead he promoted using gardens as extensions of the home. He introduced this notion...