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Gardentopia : design basics for creating beautiful outdoor spaces

2019

Format:	Book
Author:	Johnsen, Jan, author.
Title:	Gardentopia : design basics for creating beautiful outdoor spaces / Jan Johnsen.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : The Countryman Press, A division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Description:	286 pages: colored illustrations, 27 cm
Summary:	135 inspiring tips to transform your landscape, illustrated with lush photography. You'll find recommendations for plants, flowers and shrubs to suit your taste and climate.
Subjects:	Landscape gardening.
Notes:	Includes index. LM
LCCN:	2018050566
ISBN:	9781682683965
System Availability:	1
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Call Number:	635.9 Jo
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Readers with even the slightest interest in beautifying an outdoor space-large or small-should find something of value in this expansive guide from landscape designer Johnsen (The Spirit of Stone: 101 Practical & Creative Stonescaping Ideas for Your Garden). She emphasizes the importance of deciding upon a goal for a garden and visualizing its final appearance before beginning work on it, declaring that the sum of any such project is greater than its parts. Johnsen takes care to dissect these parts, revealing creative possibilities (accompanied by practical guidance) for each nook and cranny. For example, to recover the lost art of "garden strolling," the design can include a widened, curving walkway that coaxes the stroller through a garden's various turns and twists. With proper planning and plant placement, the garden will "reveal itself in stages, hiding and offering up its delights in turn." Cedar steps on a wooded hillside can function similarly, offering an insect-resistant feature that helps set the pace of traversing the garden. Replete with eye-popping color photos, detailed explanations, lists of the tools required, and creative ideas, Johnsen's guide will be, for avid and committed gardeners, a gift that keeps on giving. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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This is foremost a photo library of garden-design ideas for the browsing reader, as it should be. But Johnsen adds value through smart organization, spot-on pairings of images with the design concepts she's trying to convey, conversational but info-packed captions running 150-200 words, and a good, wide range of possibilities for gardeners to consider. For example, the chapter on theme gardens includes examples of pollinator, rock crevice, strolling, kitchen, scent, birdscaping, medicinal, and fern gardens. And the chapter on walls, patios, walks, and steps is chock-full of photos with accompanying captions of projects, many of which even the average home gardener can pull off. Johnsen admits that the landscapes shown here are primarily from the northeastern U.S., but she helpfully indicates hardiness zones, which extend beyond her territory, for many of the plants she recommends. And, for browsers, there's a nice catchall section touching on such accents as Adirondack chairs, runway lights, pillars and poles, the principle of three depths in a garden, rustic furniture, the placement of planters in beds, and the use of portals. And an entire chapter plays with color in the garden, from the almost garish pinks and reds of coneflowers to the snowy whites of tulips, dogwoods, and anemones. Inspiring.--Alan Moores Copyright 2019 Booklist

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" Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape--boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver's seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia." - Margie Grace, Grace Design Associates

Any backyard has the potential to refresh and inspire if you know what to do. Jan Johnsen's new book, Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, will delight all garden lovers with over 130 lushly illustrated landscape design and planting suggestions. Ms. Johnsen is an admired designer and popular speaker whose hands-on approach to "co-creating with nature" will have you saying, "I can do that!'

This info-packed, sumptuous book offers individual tips for enhancing any size landscape using 'real world' solutions. The suggestions are grouped into five categories that include Garden Design and Artful Accents, Walls, Patios, and Steps and Plants and Planting, among others. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a landscaping novice, Gardentopia will inspire you with tips such as 'Soften a Corner", "Paint it Black", and "Hide and Reveal".

Table of Contents

	Introduction	p. 9
1	Garden Design And Artful Accents	p. 13
1	Visualization 101	p. 17
2	What's the Goal?	p. 18
3	The Sum Is More Than Its Parts	p. 21
4	The Graceful Sweep of a Curve	p. 22
5	Hide and Reveal The Mystery of the Unseen	p. 25
6	The Principle of Three Depths	p. 26
7	Find the Power Spot	p. 28
8	Framing a Garden	p. 29
9	Blend Light and Shadow	p. 30
10	Have a Seal Adirondack Chairs	p. 33
11	East-Direction of Growth and Renewal	p. 34
12	Respect the Genius of the Place	p. 37
13	Capture the View Beyond	p. 38
14	Mushrooms and Staddle Stones	p. 39
15	Power of the Portal	p. 40
16	Soften a Corner	p. 43
17	Watch Our for Runway Lights	p. 44
18	Re-Re-Repetition in the Landscape	p. 47
19	A Window in the Garden	p. 48
20	Rustic Elegance in a Wooded Landscape	p. 51
21	Irresistible Lookouts	p. 52
22	Show Off That Rock!	p. 55
23	Planter in a Bed	p. 56
24	Tricking the Eye	p. 59
25	Reclaim an Old Metal Gate	p. 60
26	Why We Love Rounded Forms in the Garden	p. 63
27	The Intriguing Dry Stream	p. 64
28	Yin and Yang in the Garden	p. 67
29	Accessorizing Your Garden with Pot Feet	p. 68
30	The Long View	p. 71
31	Exolamation Points Columnar Plants, Pillars, and Poles	p. 72
32	Placing a Water Cascade Elevate and Set Back	p. 75
33	Circles in the Landscape	p. 76
34	Rain Chains	p. 78
35	The Lure of the Sheltered Carrier	p. 79
36	Artful Accents-Where in Place Them?	p. 81
37	Pooling and Channeling	p. 82
38	Move the Furniture	p. 85
39	Have Fun with Stones	p. 86
40	Garden Making Advice From a Zen Master	p. 88
2	Walls, Patios, Walks, And Steps	p. 90
41	How Big a Patio Do You Needs?	p. 93
42	Make the Steps the Show	p. 95
43	The 3. 4. 5 Rate For 90-Degree Corners	p. 96
44	A Raised Walkway for Soggy Ground	p. 97
45	Edging Makes the Different	p. 99
46	Meet and Greet	p. 100
47	Rounded Steps	p. 102
48	Planking Pattern A Modern Touch	p. 105
49	Punctuate with a Brick Border	p. 106
50	Cedar Log Steps	p. 109
51	Enhance the Public Face of Your House	p. 110
52	Outdoor Steps-Wider and Lower	p. 112
53	Cap That Wall	p. 113
54	Why We Love Niches	p. 115
55	Setting Stepping Stones	p. 116
56	Make Mine Herringbone	p. 119
57	A Connoisseur of Stone Walls	p. 120
3	Theme Gardens	p. 123
58	Cupid's Garden	p. 125
59	Remember the Pollinators	p. 127
60	A Stroll Garden	p. 128
61	A Rock Crevice Garden	p. 131
62	More Kitchen Gardens, Please	p. 132
63	Hydrangea Madness	p. 135
64	Whimsy? Why Not?	p. 136
65	Late the Moonlight	p. 139
66	Food for the Nose	p. 140
67	A Garden of the Five Senses	p. 143
68	Celebrate the Rocks	p. 144
69	Birdscaping with Berried Plants	p. 147
70	Medicinal Garden, Anyone?	p. 148
71	Tropical Splash	p. 151
72	Ferny Woodland	p. 152
73	A Cottage Garden	p. 155
74	A Garden for a Small Space	p. 156
75	Everyday "Art" in the Garden	p. 159
4	Color In The Garden	p. 160
76	Try Some Yellow and Call Me in the Morning	p. 165
77	Why White?	p. 166
78	In Love with Orange	p. 169
79	A Matter of Sunlight	p. 172
80	A Pop of Red	p. 175
81	One-Color Gardens and Planters	p. 176
82	Inventive and Creative Green	p. 179
83	See the Basics	p. 180
84	The Mystery of a Blue Gate	p. 183
85	Pink and Purple A Dynamic Duo	p. 184
86	The Sound of Flowers	p. 187
87	Match That Loaf!	p. 188
88	Burnished Colors of Late Autumn	p. 191
89	Accent on White and Green	p. 192
90	The Siren Call of Bhie Evergreens	p. 195
91	Vibrant Display Ideas for Fall	p. 196
92	Playing with Colors	p. 199
93	Paint it Black	p. 200
5	Plants And Planting	p. 203
94	Why We Garden	p. 207
95	Bottlebrush Buckeye	p. 208
96	A Foliage Tapestry	p. 211
97	Russian Sage Plays Well with Others	p. 212
98	Cool Season versus Warm Season Grasses	p. 215
99	Butterfly Weed-So Important	p. 216
100	Rosette Patterns Grab the Eye	p. 219
101	The Lovely Smokebush	p. 220
102	The Life of the World	p. 222
103	Stepped Hedges for a Sloping Site	p. 223
104	Lamb's Ear-Beautiful and Useful	p. 224
105	The Gift of the Gardenia	p. 225
106	Cloud Pruning	p. 227
107	Snowflake Oakleaf Hydrangea	p. 228
108	A Lot of a Little	p. 231
109	Embrace the Moss	p. 232
110	Plants in the Front Row	p. 235
111	The Purple Persian Shield	p. 236
112	Lifting the Canopy	p. 239
113	Tall Verbena-An Airy Nonstop Bloomer	p. 240
114	Fine Textures for Fine Gardens	p. 243
115	The Sunflower The Fourth Sister	p. 244
116	Sunlight Therapy	p. 247
117	Mix and Match Sedum	p. 248
118	Playful Mounds	p. 251
119	In Praise of Coleus	p. 252
120	Planting by the Moon	p. 255
121	Anchors in the Landscape	p. 256
122	Tiger Eyes® Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac	p. 259
123	Love Your Slope	p. 260
124	Dragon's Eye Pine	p. 263
125	Angelina Stonecrop-A Garden Workhorse	p. 264
126	It's All About the Soil	p. 267
127	Versatile Ornamental Onion	p. 268
128	Go for the Bark	p. 271
129	The Delicate Beauty of the Laceleaf Japanese Maple	p. 272
130	Feathery Celosia	p. 275
131	A Shape, a Volume, an Arabesque	p. 276
132	A Sparkling Groundcover-'Beacon Silver' Dead Nettle	p. 278
133	Light as Air-Spider Flower	p. 279
134	'Mellow Yellow' Spirea	p. 281
135	Ligularia 'Britt-Marie Grawford'	p. 282
	Index	p. 284

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