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Designing and Renovating Larger Gardens

Handbook / Manual Out of Print
By: Douglas Coltart
168 pages, 161 col photos, 86 line illus
Publisher: Timber Press
Designing and Renovating Larger Gardens
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  • Designing and Renovating Larger Gardens ISBN: 9780881928242 Hardback Jun 2007 Out of Print #167942
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Award-winning landscape designer Douglas Coltart offers practical instructions for designing and renovating spacious gardens, with an eye towards issues unique to those working with at least a third of an acre of land. This book will enable gardeners to make a range of positive changes, such as anchoring the garden into the surrounding landscape, making the most of arrival space, creating focal points, working with scale and proportion, and cultivating a sense of spatial unity. Using illustrated case studies, the author recounts triumphs (and tribulations) from his past projects. With practical instructions, inspirational case studies, and photos of spacious gardens worldwide, this book will prove an indispensable resource for amateur and professional garden designers.

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Douglas Coltart is a landscape architect and garden designer whose company, Viridarium, specializes in innovative large-scale projects. He lectures frequently throughout the UK, has been featured on various TV shows, and has twice been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal for his designs. He lives in Scotland.
Handbook / Manual Out of Print
By: Douglas Coltart
168 pages, 161 col photos, 86 line illus
Publisher: Timber Press
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Written specifically for the larger garden and helps to take the anxiety out of working on a bigger scale. ... [It] is most definitely an invaluable tool for anyone renovating or considering taking on a larger garden. -- Dermot O'Neill Garden Heaven 20070701 Focuses on ways to stamp your character onto a big, blank canvas - whether that means breaking up the space into more manageable sections, creating a woodland or turning the space into a grand, sweeping vista. -- George Weigel Harrisburg Patriot-News 20071125 If you find yourself with a five-acre property and the desire to do something grand, Scottish landscape architect and garden designer Douglas Coltart has advice for you. ... This is a book for serious gardeners and garden design professionals. San Luis Obispo Tribune 20071221
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