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Garden Stone: Creative Landscaping with Plants and Stone
The Garden Writers Association of America awarded Garden Stone a Garden Globe Award of Achievement for Writing. The Washington Post wrote, "Garden Stone is one of the best idea books on using stones in the landscape that I have seen." And Country Living Gardener said, "While the book is visually stunning . . . diagrams and step-by-step instructions show how gardeners can make their dreams come true."
Garden Stone shows you how to add stone to bring texture, color, serenity, and strength to your garden. Author Barbara Pleasant offers more than 40 enchanting designs--from something as simple as a flagstone path to an elaborate Zen-inspired meditation garden. Each project is packed with practical, down-to-earth installation advice, including clear line drawings and instructional diagrams. A comprehensive resource list helps you easily find the tools and materials you need.
Pleasant helps gardeners decide which type of stone is best for which kind of design. Limestone, for example, is ideal for stacking to make rock walls. Sandstone is easy to cut for steps and adds warm shades of red, yellow, or chocolate brown to the landscape. Blocks of granite can be used as sturdy paving stones.
Pleasant also shows you how to create stone water features, such as fountains and natural-looking ponds and streams. And she provides hundreds of suggestions for plants whose color, texture, and shape will enhance your stone projects.
Garden Stone shows you how to add stone to bring texture, color, serenity, and strength to your garden. Author Barbara Pleasant offers more than 40 enchanting designs--from something as simple as a flagstone path to an elaborate Zen-inspired meditation garden. Each project is packed with practical, down-to-earth installation advice, including clear line drawings and instructional diagrams. A comprehensive resource list helps you easily find the tools and materials you need.
Pleasant helps gardeners decide which type of stone is best for which kind of design. Limestone, for example, is ideal for stacking to make rock walls. Sandstone is easy to cut for steps and adds warm shades of red, yellow, or chocolate brown to the landscape. Blocks of granite can be used as sturdy paving stones.
Pleasant also shows you how to create stone water features, such as fountains and natural-looking ponds and streams. And she provides hundreds of suggestions for plants whose color, texture, and shape will enhance your stone projects.
- GenresGardening
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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December 1, 2008
LOVED THIS BOOK! It is simply the best book EVER on stone in the garden. The ideas are practical, casual, beautiful, not all mortered and manufactured like the other stone books I got. Great tuts,clear and friendly writing style and she tells you how to salvage stone. Like from construction sites. I had no idea!
July 15, 2022
3.5- Another mostly idea book, except this one has practical application pages between chapters. Good diagrams showing what to do to install the stones. Also has some plant ideas for various spaces. I took a few pictures of the layout options they offer.
March 4, 2017
Interesting reading. Good information and pictures to help design landscape features.
August 3, 2013
This is a good, very detailed book. Deals more with stonework than with the accompanying plants. Perhaps not for the beginner.
October 18, 2017
Purely read for research purposes, but I enjoyed it. My mom loved gardening. Wish she could have read this too.
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