Lifelong Landscape Design

by Dargan, Mary Palmer

• ISBN13: 9781423620723
• ISBN10: 1423620720
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-10-30
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Summary

"A holistic approach to enhancing health and longevity through the creation of outdoor spaces."-Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA Lifelong landscape design means thinking about more than your garden. It involves encouraging your community to be a well-rooted environment consisting of friends who share home-grown produce, walk in the neighborhood, recycle, water harvest, compost and are watchful of each other's well-being. Lifelong landscape designs create environments that connect with nature, encompass a home, and promote healthy living by providing mobility, social interaction, and places to sustain the body and soul. Learn easy steps to design your own lifelong landscape through more than 200 landscape patterns and activities that illustrate components of healthy living. Enhance the quality of your life at any stage with practical advice from this inspirational landscape architect with more than 30 years experience.

Excerpts

At a time when life's demands push us to the edge, many are seeking a landscape of refuge and tranquility that is more in harmony with nature. Spaces that restore and offer an escape from our everyday stress have now been proven to enhance healing and longevity. Landscape architect Mary Palmer Dargan offers a new book with a central mission to provide the individual homeowner with a guide to lifelong landscape design.

Building on the principles of Dargan's first book, Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, she integrated life lessons learned over the course of almost forty years of practice in residential landscape design and a commitment to environments that restore balance, promote well-being and engage lifelong communities. Using both eastern and western design principles, her holistic approach to lifelong landscape design provides a sensitive site development philosophy for existing and new residences. The book explores landscape patterns that inspire health andlongevity and provides a how-to guide for creating harmonious outdoor spaces that reduce stress and uplift the body and soul.