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Glorious Gardens

Name: Glorious Gardens
Author: Jacqueline Heriteau
ISBN: 9781556704857

by Jacqueline Heriteau

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Here is one of the most complete and spectacular compendiums of garden design, technique and information ever assembled. From abundant kitchen gardens to blooming desert xeriscapes to breezy beach-front seascapes overflowing with ornamental grasses and hardy flowers, Heriteau covers thousands of possibilities for creating, improving and nurturing a garden. Heriteau's text is illustrated with more than 250 full-color, inspiring photographs by dozens of photographers including Andrew Lawson, Curtice Taylor, Hugh Palmer, Mick Hales and Clive Nichols, some of the most renowned garden photographers in the world. Detailed sidebars list flowers, plants and vegetables native to a particular habitat, as well as practical maintenance tips and strategies. And a Gardening Basics Appendix provides techniques and information that make this book as valuable to the beginner as it is to the seasoned creative gardener.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Exploring gardening's broad reach (from desert to beach) and myriad horticultural details (woodland flowers to pond snails), this sumptuous volume, illustrated with 250 color photographs, leads readers along an intimate path with stops to view 10 types of gardens. In "Small Gardens," a trompe l'oeil plant design magically extends a garden's depth. "Water Gardens" considers both the contemplative appeal of mirror-like water as well as the lively charm of a livestock pond that attracts other wildlife. Likely to be the most popular chapter, "Weekend Gardens" features the new American garden style of carefree ornamental grasses and simple plantings that serve as a stage for nature's free showthe wind's movement, light, snow, birdsong and native rocks "bare to the sky." Weaving lively prose, photographs and informational sidebars presenting imaginative design concepts with practical instructions on construction, plants and maintenance, Hriteau, a gardening writer, is both armchair gardener's muse and dirt digger's coach. Garden Book Club selection. (Nov.)