Interior Planting A Guide to Plantscapes in Work and Leisure Spaces

By: Lynne Lockwood Seignot

384 pages, B/w photos, illus

Publisher: Gower

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ISBN: 9780566080692 Hardback Dec 2000 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1 week
£114.00
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Gives practical recommendations for lighting and watering systems, temperature levels and other environmental requirements, such as growing media and structural support, as well as advice on long-term maintenance. Guidance on selecting and specifying plants is followed by an extensive illustrated plant index showing species' form, scale and textural effect, amongst other useful information.

Part 1 Background and built examples: historical background to exotic planting; evolution of an architectural context for outdoor planting; 20th-century greening of internal spaces; subjective and objective responses to planted interiors. Part 2 Practical recommendations: environmental requirements; physical requirements; maintenance requirements; guidance on plant specification and selection.