Exploring Garden Style : Creative Ideas from America's Best Gardeners

by FINE GARDENING EDITORS

• ISBN13: 9781561584741
• ISBN10: 1561584746
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Taunton

Summary

In Exploring Garden Style, the experts from Fine Gardening magazine deliver practical advice and innovative ideas for creating gardens with style and personality. More than 20 talented designers help you design a garden based on a theme -- whether a quaint cottage garden, a naturalistic woodland garden, or an abundant kitchen garden. It's all the inspiration you'll need to create a beautiful garden of your own. Discover how to create: *American-style cottage gardens *soothing water gardens *colorful tropical gardens *fragrant evening gardens *terraced hillside gardens *gardens that attract wildlife In this book on garden style, you'll see how American-style gardens are evolving. And you'll be delighted by just how diverse these gardens really are. Even among traditional gardens, you'll find some interesting twists -- like gardens that were designed to be at their peak beauty and fragrance during the evening hours.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(1)
PART 1: Traditional Gardens	4	(34)
A Garden Room for Every Mood	6	(8)
Sharon Abroms-McHale
Planting a Terraced Garden	14	(8)
Kathryn MacDougald
A Sanctury in Every Season	22	(8)
Pat Bullard
In the Garden, by the Light of the Moor	30	(8)
Peter Loewer
PART 2: Naturalistic Gardens	38	(34)
Gardening in Harmony with Nature	40	(8)
Joseph Keller
The Pleasures of a No-Lawn Landscape	48	(8)
John L. Harper
Stroll through the Seasons on a Woodsy Garden Path	56	(6)
Margaret DeHaas van Dorsser
Creating a Canyon from Scratch	62	(4)
Michael McLaughlin
Going Native	66	(6)
Andy Wasowski
PART 3: Specialty Gardens	72	(96)
A Cutting Garden for All Seasons	74	(8)
Valerie S. Easton
A Feast for the Eyes	82	(6)
David Culp
Defining the New American Cottage Garden	88	(8)
Marcia A. Tatroe
Tropical Garden, Temperate Zone	96	(8)
Nani Waddoups
English Roses Anchor an American Shoreline Garden	104	(8)
Lynn Hunt
Planting a Knot Garden	112	(8)
Dennis Schrader
Weave a Garden of Self-Sown Splendor	120	(8)
Gary Keim
Design a Greenhouse from the Ground Up	128	(6)
Kevin J. Doyle
An Inspired Alpine Garden	134	(6)
Catherine Taylor
Designing Water Gardens	140	(8)
Rudy Perkins
Herbs in the Ornamental Garden	148	(6)
Yvonne England
Plant a Prairie Garden	154	(6)
C. Colston Burrell
Grasses Grace a Garden	160	(8)
Richard McPherson
Credits	168	(1)
Index	169