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Showing posts with label Conservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservation. Show all posts
Care and Conservation of Historic Garden Land (BCD Special Reports)
Gardener and permaculture pioneer Becky Elder truly understands the challenges and rewards of gardening in high, dry climates such as the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. She allows the novice gardener to discover her gardening secrets as if standing with her in the garden and provides helpful monthly to-do lists and suggestions for suitable plants. Seasoned gardeners can draw on Becky's expertise to build on their own garden philosophies.
Becky, an avid gardener for more than 30 years, runs a well-known garden design and maintenance business, Blue Planet Earthscapes. She is a respected lecturer and teacher on living harmoniously with the land and has written gardening columns and articles for publications including Springs magazine, Permaculture Activist and The Pikes Peak Bulletin. A portion of this book won first place in creative nonfiction in Pikes Peak Writers Conference's Paul Gillette Memorial Writing Contest in 2003.
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Heritage Gardens: Care, Conservation, Management (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)
Heritage gardens create huge management headaches. How does one preserve a garden designed for the enjoyment of the few when the advent of the many grinds it away to nothing? The answer, as presented in Heritage Gardens is a subterfuge: preserve the illusion of the created environment as originally conceived, but adjust it using more durable materials: plants and designs which require less cultivation. Of all the problems facing the heritage industry today, the managment of gardens and landscape environment create some of the greatest difficulties. This book seeks to provide some of the answers.Price: $55.95
Landscape Plants for Western Regions: An Illustrated Guide to Plants for Water Conservation
From Concept to Form in Landscape Design Grant W. Reid, ASLA One of the most difficult tasks for a designer is to translate concepts into specific and detailed organizations of space. From Concept to Form in Landscape Design provides vital, functional techniques that make the transformation easier and more effective. This perceptive resource examines both traditional and non-traditional methods of landscape design, providing the conceptual and philosophical foundations for ideas and their graphic expression. Reid utilizes both geometric and naturalistic approaches as form determinants. From Concept to Form in Landscape Design includes- detailed photographs to assist in visualizing various techniques
- precise case studies showing sequential processes of form evolution
- inspiring images from nature for naturalistic form development
- atypical design examples as impetuses for innovation
Price: $62.00
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