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Garden Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Garden Design

John Brookes is undoubtedly the doyen of modern garden designers. Since going into practice in the 1960s, he has taught, lectured and communicated to an ever wider public through his books. Garden Design, first published in 1991, quickly established itself as the designer's bible. Whether you want to redesign your existing garden or are creating a new garden from scratch, John Brookes takes you step-by-step through every stage in creating your own designs - from the easy-to-learn skills for measuring your garden and drawing up a plan, to judging scale, using pattern and siting plants. Using specially commissioned full-colour photographs, drawings and plans he shows you how to give your garden a coherent style by the appropriate choice of surfaces, enclosures and accessories, and demonstrates how to fully integrate plants successfully into your design.

The Book of Garden Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

The Book of Garden Design

Step-by-step guide to creating garden designs that includes instructions for blueprints, using patterns, and measuring.

John Brookes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

John Brookes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

After a foreword by John Brookes himself and a brief introduction, The Story of John Brookes reveals all the influences that have come to bear on John's work plotting the major stages of his career. The chapter plots his growth as a garden designer, from his apprenticeship with the Nottingham Corporation Parks Department in 1954, through his work with Brenda Colvin and Sylvia Crowe in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his setting up of his own garden and landscape design practice. His first successes in London town gardens in the 1960s are charted, as well as his key designs and educational achievements around the globe throughout his career, right up to his current position as the doyen o...

Garden Design Workbook
  • Language: en

Garden Design Workbook

A real-life garden design project puts sound principles into practice, taking the reader through every stage -- from outlining requirements to final planting.

The Small Garden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Small Garden

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977-01-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Indoor Garden Book
  • Language: en

The Indoor Garden Book

Offers advice on decorating with plants, tells how to match plants with containers, and covers cut- and dried-flower arrangements, plant care, and room-by-room deoorating advice.

John Brookes' Garden Design Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

John Brookes' Garden Design Book

A comprehensive guide to creating a stylish garden. Takes a look at how the garden has developed through the ages and the influence reflected by social and fashion changes. This book also looks at the principles of garden design including drawing plans, and understanding scale and proportion. Advice is provided on how to focus on the visual potential of plants, and how to approach the subject of planting with a designer's eye. John Brookes is the author of The Garden Book, The Indoor Garden Book, The Country Garden and The New Small Garden.

The Battle of Jutland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 595

The Battle of Jutland

A major new account of the Battle of Jutland based on contemporary sources, examining the influence of technology, tactics and leadership.

Garden Masterclass
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Garden Masterclass

British garden designer John Brookes focuses on eleven basic ideas in garden design--setting, shape, direction, levels, enclosure, entrance, surface, structure, planting, water, and style--explaining the vital elements of each and presenting exceptionally good photos from around the world to clarify the concepts. (Unfortunately, their locations are not consistently identified.) His approach is practical and clear yet sophisticated, and environmental sensitivity is emphasized throughout. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

A Landscape Legacy
  • Language: en

A Landscape Legacy

"It is no exaggeration to say that John Brookes transformed twentieth-century garden design, not only in his native Britain but throughout the world. He fundamentally changed the way people think about their gardens. In his first book, Room Outside, in 1969, he wrote, 'A garden is essentially a place for use by people not a static picture created by plants; plants provide the props, the colour and texture, but the garden is the stage and its design should be determined by the uses it is intended to fulfil.' Today, nearly fifty years on, he emphasises the importance of reconciling nature and the character of a landscape with the needs and visions of the people living in it. Over those fifty years he has designed gardens - and taught garden design - in the United States, Canada and South America, in Russia and Japan, in Iran and Kashmir, and all over Europe - always consulting the vernacular of an area, its materials and how they are used, as well as its plants. Now, in A Landscape Legacy John Brookes tells the story of his life and work and reflects on how his thinking about garden design, and design generally, has developed." -- Provided by publisher.