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Small Spaces, Beautiful Gardens

Name: Small Spaces, Beautiful Gardens
Author: Keith Davitt
ISBN: 9781564968319

by Keith Davitt

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Overview

Why are really attractive small gardens so rare? Most home owners don't realize how much is possible in a small space. If you want a garden but do not think you have enough outdoor space to make a beautiful garden, then this is the book for you. Small Spaces, Beautiful Gardens provides the tools and information you need to determine which small garden style is right for you and how to achieve the look you want within your limited space. Each of the eighteen featured garden projects illustrates the underlying principles of small space garden design through illustrations, photographs, and plans.

Small Spaces Beautiful Gardens brings the hands-on know-how of a twenty-year landscape designer, Keith Davitt, home to you. Each chapter of this beautifully illustrated book explains the design principles behind making beautiful, livable gardens for small yards and city lots by using imaginative design to create the illusion of space. Each chapter is a hardworking profile of a small garden, packed with tips and tricks on how to visually grow your garden space. Before and after illustrations make this book a step-by-step guide to building your own small garden -- no matter what your style.

About the Author, Keith Davitt

Keith Davitt has been designing, building, photographing, and writing about gardens for 20 years. His gardens and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, and he is the author of Small Spaces, Beautiful Gardens. He lives in Cambridge, New York.

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Publishers Weekly

A near-architectural design strategy is king in this heartening guide for owners of small plots of land. Mosaic brickwork, a few well-placed tiles, terraces, stone walls, benches tucked into corners and flora, flora, flora. Landscape designer and author Davitt recommends, among other ideas, curves "to elicit a sense of organic motion," texture for added dimension, mixed and matched leaves for lushness, and dividing the garden up to make it seem "larger than the sum of its areas." By designing their own ponds, walkways, arbors, "rooms" and patios, urban and suburban residents can achieve a harmonious privacy in spaces that seem to offer little. (Feb.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.