Planting A New Perspective

Name: Planting A New Perspective
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ISBN: 9781604693706

ISBN-10: 1604693703

ISBN-13: 9781604693706

Edition: 2013

Authors: Noel Kingsbury, Piet Oudolf

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Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury are the leading international exponents of sustainable planting design. They are also nurserymen with decades worth of knowledge about plants and their habits. This book offers keen gardeners, garden designers and landscape architects a unique insight into how they combine these areas of expertise to create some of the world's most memorable parks and gardens. They then demonstrate how this effect can be achieved on a smaller scale in domestic garden settings.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 9.50" wide x 10.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.212
Language: English

Piet Oudolf is among the world's most innovative garden designers and a leading figure in what has come to be known as New Wave Planting, a movement that takes inspiration from nature but employs artistic skill in creating planting schemes. He is the coauthor of "Planting the Natural Garden", "Dream Plants for the Natural Garden", and "Gardening with Grasses". He resides in the Netherlands and UK.



Introduction: Planting design for the twenty-first century



Planting - the big picture



Grouping plants



Combining plants



Long-term plant performance



Mingling currents in contemporary planting design


Conclusion: The new planting


Plant directory


Plant names


Metric and US equivalents - Further reading


Acknowledgments


Photo credits


Index