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Landscape Design Answer Book: Than 300 Specific Design Solutions for Your Landscape
Writing specifically for new homeowners and those planning renovations, Bath pulls from her twenty-five-plus years of experience helping thousands of clients. Even though Bath faces a wide range of landscape design situations in her work, the solutions to these important landscape problems remain constant. That's why The Landscape Design Answer Book is unique. Bath reduces the subject of landscape design to about three hundred specific design problems (or goals) a homeowner may face--and provides solutions that can be universally applied.
400 pages, Paperback
First published September 12, 2006
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November 4, 2012
As a Landscape Designer myself...I am always interested in checking out new material on the subject. Although this book seems to be written by Mrs. Bath to the general public, I think it should have been geared to her peers & fellow landscape designers. I say this primarily because it focuses on many of the issues a designer deals with in preparing their layouts. In fact the amount of detail covered in this area is phenomenal.
What I think my colleagues will enjoy & find useful is all the wealth of experience Mrs. Bath brings to the table from her years of desiging. One can easily trace throughout her words that the reader is benefiting from Mrs. Bath's mistakes & can make good use of her advice.
With regards to the general public..I don't think they would find this book helpful with regard to some of the quagmires they often find themselves in such as, where do I put the beds, appropriate scale, what plants are best for me etc. There isn't a comprehensive coverage in the book about the basics of good design that usually only a trained designer would already understand such as line, texture, scale, rhythm, form etc. For this reason the average novice gardener may not find this book all encompassing.
However for the designer, this book is a treasure of gems that can be adapted to any gardening zone in the world. I highly recommend this book for anyone who already has a solid basic understanding of design concepts whether interior of exterior as this book can take you to another level of knowledge & expertise.
The only thing I didn't particularly like about the book was the layout. I would have rather had a different format...but again..Mrs. Bath was speaking to a certain audience which I'm guessing justifies this sort of arrangement of topics. I deducted one star because of this shortcoming.
This book is what it promises...well worth the price & then some.
What I think my colleagues will enjoy & find useful is all the wealth of experience Mrs. Bath brings to the table from her years of desiging. One can easily trace throughout her words that the reader is benefiting from Mrs. Bath's mistakes & can make good use of her advice.
With regards to the general public..I don't think they would find this book helpful with regard to some of the quagmires they often find themselves in such as, where do I put the beds, appropriate scale, what plants are best for me etc. There isn't a comprehensive coverage in the book about the basics of good design that usually only a trained designer would already understand such as line, texture, scale, rhythm, form etc. For this reason the average novice gardener may not find this book all encompassing.
However for the designer, this book is a treasure of gems that can be adapted to any gardening zone in the world. I highly recommend this book for anyone who already has a solid basic understanding of design concepts whether interior of exterior as this book can take you to another level of knowledge & expertise.
The only thing I didn't particularly like about the book was the layout. I would have rather had a different format...but again..Mrs. Bath was speaking to a certain audience which I'm guessing justifies this sort of arrangement of topics. I deducted one star because of this shortcoming.
This book is what it promises...well worth the price & then some.
May 5, 2021
The best landscape book I read. Practical advice. This is the one I took notes on. Applications I plan to use.
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July 26, 2009
GREAT book on landscape design with great ideas and pics. Only drawback was that the author almost assumes everyone reading it gets to build their own home and that it's in a forest! ha ha...I wish!
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