Creative Gardens

Creative Garden Design: Patterns

Creative Garden Design: Patterns is a unique and practical reference for creating mood, proportion and scale in the garden. Its more than 500 photographs reveal the hidden patterns in plants, gardens and the wider landscape to inspire plans for gardens of all sizes and illustrate how to appreciate the styles of design in larger gardens andparks. Explore the influences of pattern in design and thepeople who made them and gain a greater understanding of the roles of color, texture, shape and perspective in the garden. Each chapter explores a different theme of garden pattern, including: • Plants with Pattern: Leaf Shape and Texture • Patterns within Layouts: Symmetrical and Formal • Patterns with Plants: Borders and Bedding • Patterns in Landscape: Paving and Walls • Water Patterns: Pools and Streams Additional features include profiles of patterns ingarden design history from abstract to Islamic gardens. A complete visual delight, Creative Garden Design:Patterns is a classic work that deserves pride of place on every garden designer’s bookshelf.

Creative Gardens

Creative Gardens

This is definitely not a how-to-do-it book, but it might well be considered a how-to-think-it book. Mr. Rose feels that to tell someone whose place you have never seen how to design a garden is like a doctor trying to perform an appendectomy over the telephone when he is not sure the patient has appendicitis. Here is a thought-provoking essay, counter-pointed against handsome photographs and factual, case history, caption stories. Mr. Rose separates the garden from the house for purposes of analysis. He then discusses the usual house plus garden, wherein the garden is an afterthought that generally suffers from a tired budget. He finally illustrates, with specific examples, the complete fusion of house and landscape an attribute so rare in this country that our language does not yet have an individual word to describe it. -- from book jacket.