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The Welcoming Garden: Designing Your Own Front Garden

Gordon Hayward

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Description:Renowned garden designer Gordon Hayward's newest book focuses on one major creating front-yard gardens that will inspire and invite, transforming neighborhoods and encouraging people to create compelling spaces in which to relax, visit with neighbors, and enjoy a natural space. A front garden should welcome, enliven, enrich, and engage. Traditional "foundation planting"--that cliché that means glomming a few evergreen shrubs against the front foundation of the house and then running lawn from it down to the sidewalk or street--is a thing of the past. Hayward offers a step-by-step approach that starts by helping people find their "Big Idea," then guides the homeowner through the process of making all the smaller decisions. He also introduces fundamental garden-design principles, illustrated throughout the book with beautiful photography and line drawings, allowing homeowners to effectively apply the ideas no matter where or what type of climate they live.Feast on these lush photos with an open mind, you'll come away with an endless supply of ideas.Chapters How to Look at Garden ImagesThe Driveway, Cars and the Front GardenThe Path to the Front DoorA Lot of Lawn, A Little Lawn?Gardens Between House and SidewalkFencing, Walls and GatesSitting Areas in the Front GardenGordon Hayward holds degrees from Wesleyan University and began gardening in the 1970s. In 1984, he turned to the work of garden design, lecturing, and writing full time. He consults throughout the Northeast for residential clients, their architects, and builders. He is the author of several books, including The Intimate Twenty Years and Four Seasons in Our Garden, Garden Inspiring Designs and Practical Projects, and Your House, Your A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design, as well as a variety of articles for Horticulture Magazine. Hayward is a certified member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Welcoming Garden: Designing Your Own Front Garden. To get started finding The Welcoming Garden: Designing Your Own Front Garden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Renowned garden designer Gordon Hayward's newest book focuses on one major creating front-yard gardens that will inspire and invite, transforming neighborhoods and encouraging people to create compelling spaces in which to relax, visit with neighbors, and enjoy a natural space. A front garden should welcome, enliven, enrich, and engage. Traditional "foundation planting"--that cliché that means glomming a few evergreen shrubs against the front foundation of the house and then running lawn from it down to the sidewalk or street--is a thing of the past. Hayward offers a step-by-step approach that starts by helping people find their "Big Idea," then guides the homeowner through the process of making all the smaller decisions. He also introduces fundamental garden-design principles, illustrated throughout the book with beautiful photography and line drawings, allowing homeowners to effectively apply the ideas no matter where or what type of climate they live.Feast on these lush photos with an open mind, you'll come away with an endless supply of ideas.Chapters How to Look at Garden ImagesThe Driveway, Cars and the Front GardenThe Path to the Front DoorA Lot of Lawn, A Little Lawn?Gardens Between House and SidewalkFencing, Walls and GatesSitting Areas in the Front GardenGordon Hayward holds degrees from Wesleyan University and began gardening in the 1970s. In 1984, he turned to the work of garden design, lecturing, and writing full time. He consults throughout the Northeast for residential clients, their architects, and builders. He is the author of several books, including The Intimate Twenty Years and Four Seasons in Our Garden, Garden Inspiring Designs and Practical Projects, and Your House, Your A Foolproof Approach to Garden Design, as well as a variety of articles for Horticulture Magazine. Hayward is a certified member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Welcoming Garden: Designing Your Own Front Garden. To get started finding The Welcoming Garden: Designing Your Own Front Garden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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