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PublisherTimber Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100881924377

ISBN-139780881924374

eBay Product ID (ePID)854765

Product Key Features

Book TitleDesigning with Plants

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLandscape, Garden Design, Ornamental Plants

Publication Year1999

IllustratorYes

GenreGardening

AuthorNoel Kingsbury, Piet Oudolf

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight40.1 Oz

Item Length11.3 in

Item Width9.7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-040854

ReviewsDesigning with Plants may be gorgeous enough to grace a coffee table, but it is also a fresh and exquisitely insightful treatment of the first principles of gardening... As in Gardening with Grasses, which he co-wrote with Michael King, it is obvious that Piet Oudolf is a brilliant and utterly inspiring garden-maker. His gardens have great breadth and scope, yet are full of fine detail...No one has ever written more tellingly on these topics - or more lucidly., This work by designer, photographer, and horticulturist Oudolf beautifully and lavishly presents the aesthetic quality of plants., Designing With Plants by Pierre Oudoff is a big and beautiful guide. Chock-a-block with glorious examples., Piet Oudolf is a serious gardener who has brought the theme of plant formation to its ultimate splendor., Designing with Plants by Piet Oudolf, is worth buying or checking out just for the photos of beautiful, casual gardens., In Designing with Plants, Oudolf and co-author Noel Kingsbury share the principles and techniques behind Oudolf's most successful gardens., This is a superbly analytical book, giving detailed, step-by-step advice on the planting of borders of flowering perennials and grasses in the new Dutch naturalistic style., For this book takes you leaping forward to a new style and a new way of thinking. It is an exhilarating ride and on its way it overturns a lot of conventional teaching., The methods and the plant materials tha have made Oudolf famous as a forward-looking designer are here set out clearly for all to understand - and copy or adapt as appropriate., A perennial border that doesn't require soil amending, lots of deadheading, watering and cutting back sounds too good to be true. In his new book, Designing with Plants, written with Noel Kingsbury, Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf explains how., Designing with Plants lets the average gardener in on Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf's ideas for creating naturalistic landscapes., This is what Piet Oudolf does best: an artist with plants, in this book he explains in a simple way how he creates his wonderful effects. . . Mouthwatering pictures and plant information make this book of interest to gardeners of all levels., No-nonsense gardeners who disdain the gloss of coffee-table books might be tempted to pass up Designing with Plants, but that would be a mistake. Oudolf is a major figure in contemporary garden design, and this book shows why. Read it, ponder it, then go tear out that mildewed rose bush, and plant some grasses., This book is very user-friendly for anyone interested in all that's green and flowery. If, as a rule, April showers bring May flowers, why not try and orchestrate the blooms?, One of the nicest things about Designing With Plants is that it teaches all aspects of the sometimes-complicated design process by giving actual examples illustrated amply with many full-color photographs., In Designing With Plants, he (Piet Oudolf) has teamed up with British designer and writer Noel Kingsbury to produce a handsome book of practical planting ideas and inspiring seasonal images., This important book could be a revelation to serious perennial aficionados who despair of trying to maintain constant color in their gardens., I learned a great deal about garden design from this book, mostly about all the mistakes I have made in my own garden., (Piet Outdolf's) views about which perennials look best in fall and winter, along with inspiring photographs of late-season gardens he has created, can be found in Designing with Plants, written with Noel Kingsbury., His ideas are considered revolutionary by some who are only too aware of the typically stodgy pace of innovation in landscape design. We think the revolution is long overdue!, Throughout the book are wonderfully sensitive and artistic photographs of his [Oudolf's]garden design., The book is not only a lesson in unusual designs but really makes you look at these important aspects of the plants . . . Fabulous illustrations will inspire you., For a fresh and strikingly beautiful approach to garden design, try Piet Oudolf's Designing with Plants., An informative and visually breathtaking study of Piet Oudolf's planting theory and practice, providing all the necessary advice to create the same effects in your own garden., It is a lovely, well-photographed book about design and garden philosophy, as well as a guide to the newest perennials and grasses and how to place and grow them., Perceptive, unconventional, informative, and beautiful. Reading this book is like touring the world's most exclusive private gardens with a master gardener whispering in your ear., Stretches your imagination to see plants not just for their flowers but also for their shape, form, color, size, and texture in all seasons., The layout of this stunning book is as picturesque as the gardens it describes. Nature is presented as art with plants as the medium., This is 'New Wave' garden design. Throughout the book are wonderfully sensitive and artistic photographs of his garden design., A garden designer and plant breeder, Oudolf designs gardens that use perennials exclusively, eschewing the current trend toward high-maintenance mixed borders of perennials, annuals, and shrubs. . . .His approach is novel and thought-provoking., Designing With Plants may be gorgeous enough to grace coffee tables, but it also is a fresh and exquisitely insightful treatment of the first principles of gardening., This has to be one of the best books to convey the design principles that so many other horticultural books overlook today., Oudolf's 'Designing with Plants' expertly delivers what is promised: a sophisticated primer for a perennial planting palette., "Piet Oudolf [has] ... an uncanny eye for plant combinations."--Anne Raver, New York Times, March 2, 2003, Designing With Plants is a sumptuous look at gardens that depend upon the form, texture and even the movement of plants as much as color. Oudolf is a cutting-edge Dutch designer, Kingsbury an equally bold English designer., The beautifully photographed book offers a trove of valuable advice that promises to help gardeners achieve the delightfully moody character of an Oudolf border.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal712

SynopsisPiet Oudolf's gardens excite the senses and stir emotion with an approach to gardening that emphasizes form, texture, light, movement, and color. "Designing with Plants" is both inspirational and instructive-an informative and visually breathtaking study that shows readers how to create the same effects in their gardens. This paperback reprint includes four main parts. "Planting Palettes" shows the range of plant choice available in form, texture, and color. "Designing Schemes" shows how to combine these elements to create stunning and sculptural gardens. Through stunning photography, "Planting Moods" shows how to create a particular atmosphere. And "Year-Round Planting" emphasizes the importance of choosing plants that have value throughout the seasons., Based on New Wave planting, a spectacular naturalistic style of landscape design that values plants for form, texture, and year-round interest, this book will help you create original and captivating gardens., Piet Oudolf's gardens excite the senses and stir emotion with an approach to gardening that emphasizes form, texture, light, movement, and color. Designing with Plants is both inspirational and instructive-an informative and visually breathtaking study that shows readers how to create the same effects in their gardens. This paperback reprint includes four main parts. "Planting Palettes" shows the range of plant choice available in form, texture, and color. "Designing Schemes" shows how to combine these elements to create stunning and sculptural gardens. Through stunning photography, "Planting Moods" shows how to create a particular atmosphere. And "Year-Round Planting" emphasizes the importance of choosing plants that have value throughout the seasons.

LC Classification NumberSB407.O83 1999