Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Planting Design Books - |
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Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy. In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:-
The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction. Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:-
Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section. |
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A Garden for all seasons |
0 276 42011 X |
The Reader's Digest Association Limited |
Colour photos of plants and gardens |
If you use the all-seasons plants as your framework for the garden for the year, then choose plants for spring, summer, autumn or winter for a section of your garden. Follow this by using the 'Bridging the Seasons' features, which offer guidelines for companion planting with a view to providing continued attraction through the year. The Plant Selector table at the back gives the spread or planting distance, which is very usefull to prevent overcrowding of the plants within 5 years of planting. Since the plants have been selected for their visual appeal, reliability, ease of cultivation and most of all for their seasonal contribution, the resulting garden will be colourfull throughout the required seasons. Use the planting effects from "The Royal Horticultural Society Really Small Gardens" book (from this section of the library) to provide a series of well planned garden beds with style. |
Architectural Foliage - Shape, form and texture of foliage plants in garden design |
0-7063-6962-9 |
Jill Billington |
Line drawings |
How to design associations of plants. Plant association in diagrammatic form of shapes of plant form with number, repetition, contrast and line. Textural linking with coarse surfaces, ribbed leaves, shiny surfaces, prickles, wooly leaves, mat-forming leaves, velvet foliage, tapestry textures, lush grassy foliage. Co-operative colour with greens, greys, blues, reds, yellows, whites and marbled. Style. |
Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden Drought-resistant planting through the year |
0-7112-1425-5 |
Beth Chatto |
Colour photos of plants suitable for gravel |
A complete record of how best to plant in gravel to give flower and foliage with very drought resistant plants. |
Camellias, the complete guide to their cultivation and use |
0-7134-7993-0 |
Jennifer Trehane |
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200 descriptions some with photographs. Essay on Use of camellias in the garden |
Clematis |
0-7513-0686-X |
Charles Chesshire |
50 clematis |
Use of clematis in a border planting. Descriptions with photographs. Clematis maintenance. |
Colour in the Winter Garden |
0-297-83346-4 |
Graham Stuart Thomas |
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Essays on different types of plant suitable for winter colour with good descriptions in tables |
Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden |
0-907462-17-0 |
Gertrude Jekyll |
Gardens and planting plans |
How to produce planting plans of colour and composition that are harmonious |
Colourful Gardening Climbers |
1-900518-80-5 |
Richard Ross |
Climbing plants |
Scented, foliage, flowers and tender climbers descriptions with photographs |
Courtyard and Terrace Gardens |
0-304-32044-7 |
Robert Pearson, George Preston, Jack Elliott and Ray Waite |
Flowers |
4 books - gardening in a small space, climbing and wall plants, growing dwarf bulbs, and gardening in ornamental containers with plant description essays |
Creating Garden Ponds and Water Features |
0-00-710660-2 |
Debbie Roberts and Ian Smith |
Water gardens, plants and construction photos |
Gives design choices and sections on wildlife ponds, installation, planting, plant selector, fish selector and maintenance |
Designing with Plants |
1-84091-056-0 |
Piet Oudolf |
143 garden planting schemes and effects |
Designing using mostly perennials to create sculptural planting schemes with an impression and expression of nature. Key perennial and ornamental grasses plant directory |
Flower Arranging |
0-86318-434-0 |
Malcom Hillier |
Flowers, flower arrangements and diagrams |
The complete practical guide to choosing, preparing and arranging fresh and dries flowers for every occasion. Directory of flower plants and foliage plants to plant in garden for flower arranger |
Flowering Shrubs |
0-7513-0687-8 |
Charles Chesshire |
Planting plans and plants |
Recommended flowering-shrub descriptions with photographs and plant lists. RHS book. Thin book |
Garden Birds How to Attract Them and Identify Them |
1-85076-352-6 |
Mike Everett |
Birds |
100 most common birds good descriptions with colour photo. Table of feeding requirements for these birds. Essay on plants suitable for birds |
Garden Design |
0+86273-297-2 |
Michael Upward |
Gardens and plans |
Starter design data with cultivar data plant lists |
Garden Graphics |
0-670-84080-7 |
Gemma Nesbitt |
950 plant graphics with 29 existing garden plans, photograph and plant list |
1350 outline graphics of plants and garden architecture to record/design your garden with its shapes and infilled flower colours |
US Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring their least evolved citizens …. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company.
The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger.
The chef's claim was approved. |
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The introduction chapter to "A sloping garden will present any gardener with a challenge that can seem rather intimidating, and even overwhelming. What on earth can you do with it? Where do you start? Even a professional might find themselves puzzling over the same questions, but at least they will be able to draw on experience and technical knowledge. However, although this type of site may be a difficult proposition, demanding additional time, assessment and forward planning, the end results will be well worth the extra effort required. Whatever level you are working at, certain factors will reduce the options open to you, and it is fair to say that budget is the top of the list of these factors. Broadly speaking, all the initial decisions that will need to be made will be influenced by the amount of money available for the project. These include the choice of whether to approach the development from a 'construction' perspective, usually involving the costly building of steps and retaining structures, or to adopt the more cost-effective option of remodelling the site by undertaking 'earthworks'. That is not to say that the 'earthworks' approach cannot include steps; of course it can. Indeed, it may be case that, due to a greater percentage of the work being less costly 'soft' works, adding steps of hard materials becomes affordable. And, by using natural materials such as tree bark for the treads and natural timbers for the risers, such hard landscaping structures can become even more cost-effective. All these options will be explored in Chapter 4. Chapters 1 to 5 look at all aspects of the pre-build stage, the aim being to take the reader through the process, so that they have a strong structure that can be applied to the development of any sloping garden. Details are given in step-by-step stages regarding the assessment and recording of both existing and proposed site levels, progressing into the ways in which the levels will inform design choices and planning: the number and position of steps, the height of retaing structures, the proportions of hard and soft landscaping. Most of the descriptions are diagrammatic, with explanatory text. They also encompass drawing techniques with supporting text, providing a visual means by which all aspects of the sloping site can be assessed and all options for improving it can be shown. Chapters 6 to 8 focus on the planting and soft landscaping aspects, the effect on decision-making of working with a slope, and why it is important to identify site specifics such as aspect, drainage and soil characteristics. Due attention needs to be paid to all of these, as they will have a radical impact on the success or otherwise of the sloping garden. Planting design considerations and options, including the most appropriate plant groups for plant choices, are all explored in detail, in the form of a small plant library with images and explanatory text. Having worked on many sloping garden sites, both large and small, during my career as a garden designer, I know only too well the challenges that they present. Not least of these is the difficulty of obtaining reliable information. The advice available on working through this particular challenge is very disparate and fragmented - and much of it is conflicting, anyway. Time-consuming multiple website visits, reading and searching to discover the few paragraphs decicated to the subject in books and magazines, are not only frustrating, but also incredibly laborious when you just want to get on with the job in hand. That pile of notes on website shortcuts, books and articles covering your desk will lack cohesion, cause confusion and fail to give you a clear way forward. The main goal of this book is to provide anybody facing the challenge of a sloping site with a concise, detailed, easily read and understood handbook, which as far as possibl covers the questions, uncertainties and confusion they may have. Informative text, logical procedures, diagrams and images aim to provide the reader with all they need to tackle the challenge with inspiration and confidence. The final result should be the creation of a sloping garden that is safe, easy to access and enjoyable to move around. It will not only look beautiful but will have been a pleasure to develop."
You may find the following useful in the above sloping garden creation:-
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The Garden Style chosen at the beginning defines what a garden should look like. Following this choice of Garden Style, then:-
Plant Association shows which plant combinations give pleasing flower or foliage colour combinations, then Plant Type gives growing conditions of a family of plants - ie Primulas - with lists of primulas with the same flower colour, foliage colour or height and where is suitable for those plants, followed by Plant Species gives data about a family of plants in a restricted format - ie without lists - as the lowest level of useful information (unless you are prepared to read the text in a whole book each time you want to use this particular species of plant).
Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden. Garden Cultivation gives specific information on veg, fruit, lawn, pond, etc. Garden Pests details garden pests/diseases and their control.
Practical Projects gives details on how to construct hard landscaping. |
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 15,000:-
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when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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Ground Cover Herbs from Seed I often get asked what herbs are suited as ground covers. Customers tell me, "I hate cutting grass," or "I like trying something completely different, and I don't mind if my neighbours think I'm crazy to dig up my lawn." Herbal ground covers are very different, but their pleasing leaf textures and often showy masses of colour are becoming more popular in place of grass. Being the tough little critters they are, they need next to no care once established. And if you don't mind foliage and flowers that tickle your ankles and beyond, you can dispense with the weekly trysts with the lawnmower to keep things trim and proper. The biggest problem with herbal lawns is the start up cost. Regrettably, some of the finest low growing herbs are only increased by cuttings or division – the flowerless variety of english chamomile, Treneague, is a notable example. You need the payroll of a CEO to afford enough plants for an instant lawn. Or, you need the patience for many seasons of divide and spread to cover much ground starting with a few plants. Fortunately there are several good choices for herbs you can grow from seed. By far the most popular is wild thyme (Thymus praecox subsp. articus), also known as mother-of-thyme. It grows 4 to 6 inches high, has masses of rose-pink flowers in July, and grows fast enough to crowd out weeds. At 110,000 seeds per ounce, the seeds are very fine, much smaller than grass seeds, so it is a good idea to mix seeds with a filler like sand to avoid dropping 90% of your seed in 10% of the area to be covered. We recommend an ounce of seed per 1000 square feet. In the kitchen wild thyme is not commonly regarded as a culinary herb in North America, but European cooks have long used it in meat dishes just like the more famous English and French thymes (Thymus vulgaris). If nothing else, wild thyme will at least drive you from drink should you dare to consumer alcohol and the leaves at the same time. The combination causes a mother-of-a-hangover! Another popular choice for lawnless lawns is yarrow (Achillea millefolium). While its white, red or pink flowering stalks can reach a foot in height, its dense, many-divided leaves make for a cushion lawn that just invites a picnic, a snooze or other prostrate activities. I have seen yarrow used very successfully in small urban settings. especially under partial shade. If the flowers get too high, one or two runs a season with the lawnmower will keep things in check. Yarrow seeds are small and light, lighter than wild thyme. there are 175,000 seeds per ounce, and an ounce per 2500 square feet is the recommended sowing rate. Yarrow tea is insurance for colds and flus, which is a good thing if you are going to lie around in your lawn a lot. If you don't mind a more rangy and taller cover, Fassen's catnip (Nepeta x faassenii) is a good aromatic choice, growing up to 12 inches in height. Don't worry, cats are not as enamoured by this variety as they are by the much taller growing regular catnip (Nepeta cataria). Sow an ounce per 600 square feet. Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) is a good choice for warmer, sunny locales. It is a perennial, hardy to zone 6, with finely divided emerald leaves. The small daisy-like flowers are, of course, used to make the popular herbal tea. Be forewarned, there are those who insist that tea made from the Roman (sometimes also known as 'English') is superior to the annual German or Hungarian variety (Matricaria recutita), and there are others who argue just as strenuously the other way. As sides ten to fall along ethnic lines, we prefer to stay out of the debate! In any case, a Roman chamomile lawn is pure enchantment in many landscape settings. Again the seed are very fine – 155,000 per ounce – and one ounce will cover 2000 square feet. As with all seeds this small, it is crucial not to plant too deep; best simply to press the seeds, once broadcast, into the soil using a board or other object with a flat surface. |
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