The Essential Garden Design Workbook

Zusatztext The attention to detail at every stage is fantastic. . . . Even if you don't want to be a designer! it is a book worth having. Gardens Illustrated This comprehensive workbook provides a structured approach to design that students and professionals alike will find invaluable. The American Gardener Well-written! straightforward text! instructive line drawings! and beautiful! informative color photographs. Choice Invaluable resource. . . . this expanded classic is for anyone interested in designing beautiful! successful gardens. Michigan Gardener? Informationen zum Autor Founder and Principal of The English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London, Rosemary Alexander writes and lectures worldwide on garden design. She has worked on a wide range of gardens throughout the world. For eleven years she was tenant of the National Trust property, Stoneacre, in Kent, where she created a romantic, old world garden. She now lives in Hampshire where she has made a new garden. Rachel Myers is a garden designer based in Oxfordshire. She has designed gardens in France, Belgium, and Colombia. At the English Gardening School, Rachel lectures on both garden design and practical horticulture diploma courses as well as overseeing and grading all plant portfolios. Her work has been featured in numerous books and magazines, including The Book of Garden Plans, The Book of Small Garden Plans, and Gardens Illustrated. Klappentext The Essential Garden Design Workbook has been the go-to guide for students, professionals, and any gardener passionate about well-designed outdoor spaces. Now, eminent designer-educator Rosemary Alexander has teamed up with rising design star Rachel Myers for a complete update. New garden plans, new photos and diagrams, and updated profiles of 50 top plants offer timely insights for today's designers. Advice on designing for sustainability and diversity has been added, along with guidance on planning for garden spaces large and small, using computer-aided design, and starting a garden design business. Detailed sections that lead you through the entire process--pre-design, concept, layout, planning, planting, and maintenance--are more relevant than ever. Invaluable for experienced pros and the next generation alike, this expanded classic is for anyone interested in designing beautiful, successful gardens. Vorwort This third edition of The Essential Garden Design Workbook is fully updated with current design trends, new photography and illustrations, modern garden plans, and growing information for fifty of the most popular plants. Introduction The first edition of this book was published in 2004, followed by the second edition in 2009, and although most of our approach to garden design is still relevant, our awareness of our responsibility to the planet and to the health and well-being of future generations has become an important factor in the way we now plan and plant our gardens, which affects both the functional surface materials and the plant materials that we use. Concerns for sustainability and the carbon footprint inspire us to research suitable local materials and choose plants for attributes other than simply the texture of the paving or the colour of the flowers. Water remains a precious commodity, one that is not necessarily employed on keeping lawns green; now we recycle it, harvesting rainwater and including systems to disperse flooding. Stringent regulations for new buildings and commercial and parking areas must be followed to ensure public safety and long-term planning. Green roofs and living walls, and the benefits they bring to polluted areas, are now an accepted part of city life. FACTORS TO CONSIDER This new edition is focused on potential designers, design st...

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This third edition of The Essential Garden Design Workbook is fully updated with current design trends, new photography and illustrations, modern garden plans, and growing information for fifty of the most popular plants.

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Founder and Principal of The English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London, Rosemary Alexander writes and lectures worldwide on garden design. She has worked on a wide range of gardens throughout the world. For eleven years she was tenant of the National Trust property, Stoneacre, in Kent, where she created a romantic, old world garden. She now lives in Hampshire where she has made a new garden.

Rachel Myers is a garden designer based in Oxfordshire. She has designed gardens in France, Belgium, and Colombia. At the English Gardening School, Rachel lectures on both garden design and practical horticulture diploma courses as well as overseeing and grading all plant portfolios. Her work has been featured in numerous books and magazines, including The Book of Garden Plans, The Book of Small Garden Plans, and Gardens Illustrated.
 

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The Essential Garden Design Workbook has been the go-to guide for students, professionals, and any gardener passionate about well-designed outdoor spaces. Now, eminent designer-educator Rosemary Alexander has teamed up with rising design star Rachel Myers for a complete update.

New garden plans, new photos and diagrams, and updated profiles of 50 top plants offer timely insights for today's designers. Advice on designing for sustainability and diversity has been added, along with guidance on planning for garden spaces large and small, using computer-aided design, and starting a garden design business. Detailed sections that lead you through the entire process--pre-design, concept, layout, planning, planting, and maintenance--are more relevant than ever. Invaluable for experienced pros and the next generation alike, this expanded classic is for anyone interested in designing beautiful, successful gardens.

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Introduction
The first edition of this book was published in 2004, followed by the second edition in 2009, and although most of our approach to garden design is still relevant, our awareness of our responsibility to the planet and to the health and well-being of future generations has become an important factor in the way we now plan and plant our gardens, which affects both the functional surface materials and the plant
materials that we use. Concerns for sustainability and the carbon footprint inspire us to research suitable local materials and choose plants for attributes other than simply the texture of the paving or the colour of the flowers. Water remains a precious commodity, one that is not necessarily employed on keeping lawns green; now we recycle it, harvesting rainwater and including systems to disperse flooding. Stringent regulations for new buildings and commercial and parking areas must be followed to ensure public safety and long-term planning. Green roofs and living walls, and the benefits they bring to polluted areas, are now an accepted part of city life.

FACTORS TO CONSIDER
This new edition is focused on potential designers, design students, newly qualified designers, and professional gardeners, although the chapters included in Part 2 may appeal to more experienced designers hoping to develop their design skills. Garden design, an increasingly respected profession, continues to be about organising and shaping spaces in much the same way as architecture. To be a good designer two qualities are essential: first to see things clearly and understand their intrinsic nature, and secondly to analyse the value of what is seen, identifying good and bad points and deciding how best they may be used or concealed. For the professional designer, identifying what is wanted in both possible and practical terms results from close collaboration with the owners. Although the space must be comfortable for people and for plants, families evolve, children grow up, and different needs arise at the other end of the scale, when owners…