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The Curious Gardeners' Six Elements of Garden Design
Two renowned garden designers show readers how to take advantage of a garden's "natural assets" by using six key elements of Water, Form, Sculpture, Plants, Time, and Materials.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2002
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July 15, 2022
The first quarter of this book was incredibly boring. It did perk up after that, and had a number of entertaining tidbits, but I think this book had serious structural flaws.
First: the Six Elements naming the book’s sections are not particularly enlightening, and the examples given are uneven. Some are great, but the quality varied.
Second: this book surveyed many gardens poorly with a bad words-to-pictures ratio. They should have visited fewer gardens and done them properly.
Third: it committed the cardinal sin of telling me about something fabulous and NOT SHOWING ANY PICTURES of it. You really shouldn’t write about an Alice in Wonderland topiary garden and completely leave out pictures of it! And insult to injury, that garden has apparently taken them out since 2002, so pictures of them aren’t even readily available online!
Fourth: the authors love Modernist gardens and I can’t even. I was thoroughly entertained though by the one who built a giant cone fountain to match their giant cone topiary!
First: the Six Elements naming the book’s sections are not particularly enlightening, and the examples given are uneven. Some are great, but the quality varied.
Second: this book surveyed many gardens poorly with a bad words-to-pictures ratio. They should have visited fewer gardens and done them properly.
Third: it committed the cardinal sin of telling me about something fabulous and NOT SHOWING ANY PICTURES of it. You really shouldn’t write about an Alice in Wonderland topiary garden and completely leave out pictures of it! And insult to injury, that garden has apparently taken them out since 2002, so pictures of them aren’t even readily available online!
Fourth: the authors love Modernist gardens and I can’t even. I was thoroughly entertained though by the one who built a giant cone fountain to match their giant cone topiary!
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