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Gardentopia : design basics for creating beautiful outdoor spaces

Summary: 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”.

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ISBN: 9781682683965
ISBN: 1682683966
Physical Description: print
286 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : The Countryman Press, A division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

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General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Garden design and artful accents -- Walls, patios, walks, and steps -- Theme gardens -- Color in the garden -- Plants and planting.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

(4)

1 Garden Design And Artful Accents

(77)

1 Visualization 101

(1)

2 What's the Goal?

(3)

3 The Sum Is More Than Its Parts

(1)

4 The Graceful Sweep of a Curve

(3)

5 Hide and Reveal---The Mystery of the Unseen

(1)

6 The Principle of Three Depths

(2)

7 Find the Power Spot

(1)

8 Framing a Garden

(1)

9 Blend Light and Shadow

(3)

10 Have a Seat---Adirondack Chairs

(1)

11 East---Direction of Growth and Renewal

(3)

12 Respect the Genius of the Place

(1)

13 Capture the View Beyond

(1)

14 Mushrooms and Staddle Stones

(1)

15 Power of the Portal

(3)

16 Soften a Corner

(1)

17 Watch Out for Runway Lights

(3)

18 Re-Re-Repetition in the Landscape

(1)

19 A Window in the Garden

(3)

20 Rustic Elegance in a Wooded Landscape

(1)

21 Irresistible Lookouts

(3)

22 Show Off That Rock!

(1)

23 Planter in a Bed

(3)

24 Tricking the Eye

(1)

25 Reclaim an Old Metal Gate

(3)

26 Why We Love Rounded Forms in the Garden

(1)

27 The Intriguing Dry Stream

(3)

28 Yin and Yang in the Garden

(1)

29 Accessorizing Your Garden with Pot Feet

(3)

30 The Long View

(1)

31 Exclamation Points---Columnar Plants, Pillars, and Poles

(3)

32 Placing a Water Cascade--- Elevate and Set Back

(1)

33 Circles in the Landscape

(2)

34 Rain Chains

(1)

35 The Lure of the Sheltered Corner

(2)

36 Artful Accents---Where to Place Them?

(1)

37 Pooling and Channeling

(3)

38 Move the Furniture

(1)

39 Have Fun with Stones

(2)

40 Garden Making Advice from a Zen Master

(2)

2 Walls, Patios, Walks, And Steps

(43)

41 How Big a Patio Do You Need'?

(2)

42 Make the Steps the Show

(1)

43 The 3, 4, 5 Rule for 90-Degree Corners

(1)

44 A Raised Walkway for Soggy Ground

(2)

45 Edging Makes the Difference

(1)

46 Meet and Greet

100

(2)

47 Rounded Steps

102

(3)

48 Planking Pattern---A Modern Touch

105

(1)

49 Punctuate with a Brick Border

106

(3)

50 Cedar Log Steps

109

(1)

51 Enhance the Public Face of Your House

110

(2)

52 Outdoor Steps---Wider and Lower

112

(1)

53 Cap Thai Vail

113

(2)

54 Why We Love Niches

115

(4)

55 Setting Stepping Stones

116

(3)

56 Make Mine Herringbone

119

(1)

57 A Connoisseur of Stone Walls

120

(13)

3 Theme Gardens

133

(27)

58 Cupid's Garden

125

(2)

59 Remember the Pollinators

127

(1)

60 A Stroll Garden

128

(3)

61 A Rock Crevice Garden

131

(1)

62 More Kitchen Gardens. Please

132

(3)

63 Hydrangea Madness

135

(1)

64 Whimsy? Why Not?

136

(3)

65 Into the Moonlight

139

(1)

66 Food for the Nose

140

(3)

67 A Garden of the Five Senses

143

(1)

68 Celebrate the Rocks

144

(3)

69 Birdscaping with Berried Plants

147

(1)

70 Medicinal Garden, Anyone?

148

(3)

71 Tropical Splash

151

(1)

73 Ferny Woodland

152

(3)

73 A Cottage Garden

155

(1)

74 A Garden for a Small Space

156

(3)

75 Everyday "Art" in the Garden

159

(1)

4 Color In The Garden

160

(43)

76 Try Some Yellow and Call Me in the Morning

165

(1)

77 Why White?

166

(3)

78 In Love with Orange

169

(3)

79 A Matter of Sunlight

172

(3)

80 A Pop of Red

175

(1)

81 One-Color Gardens and Planters

176

(3)

82 Inventive and Creative---Green

179

(1)

83 See the Basics

180

(3)

84 The Mystery of a Blue Gate

183

(1)

85 Pink and Purple---A Dynamic Duo

184

(3)

86 The Sound of Flowers

187

(1)

87 Match That Leaf!

188

(3)

88 Burnished Colors of Late Autumn

191

(1)

89 Accent on White and Green

192

(3)

90 The Siren Call of Blue Evergreens

195

(1)

91 Vibrant Display Ideas for Fall

196

(3)

92 Playing with Colors

199

(1)

93 Paint It Black

200

(3)

5 Plants And Planting

203

(81)

94 Why We Garden

207

(1)

95 Bottlebrush Buckeye

208

(3)

96 A Foliage Tapestry

211

(1)

97 Russian Sage---Plays Well with Others

212

(3)

98 Cool-Season versus Warm-Season Grasses

215

(1)

99 Butterfly Weed---So Important

216

(3)

100 Rosette Patterns Grab the Eye

219

(1)

101 The Lovely Smokebush

220

(2)

102 The Life of the World

222

(1)

103 Stepped Hedges for a Sloping Site

223

(1)

104 Lamb's Ear---Beautiful and Useful

224

(1)

105 The Gift of the Gardenia

225

(2)

106 Cloud Pruning

227

(1)

107 Snowflake Oakleaf Hydrangea

228

(3)

108 A Lot of a Little

231

(1)

109 Embrace the Moss

232

(3)

110 Plants in the Front Row

235

(1)

111 The Purple Persian Shield

236

(3)

112 Lifting the Canopy

239

(1)

113 Tall Verbena---An Airy Nonstop Bloomer

240

(3)

114 Fine Textures for Fine Gardens

243

(1)

115 The Sunflower---The Fourth Sister

244

(3)

116 Sunlight Therapy

247

(1)

117 Mix and Match Sedum

248

(3)

118 Playful Mounds

251

(1)

119 In Praise of Coleus

252

(3)

120 Planting by the Moon

255

(1)

121 Anchors in the Landscape

256

(3)

122 Tiger Eyes® Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac

259

(1)

123 Love Your Slope

260

(3)

124 Dragon's Eye Pine

263

(1)

125 Angelina Stonecrop---A Garden Workhorse

264

(3)

126 It's All About the Soil

267

(1)

127 Versatile Ornamental Onion

268

(3)

128 Go for the Bark

271

(1)

129 The Delicate Beauty of the Laceleaf Japanese Maple

272

(3)

130 Feathery Celosia

275

(1)

131 A Shape, a Volume, an Arabesque

276

(2)

132 A Sparkling Groundcover---'Beacon Silver' Dead Nettle

278

(1)

133 Light as Air---Spider Flower

279

(2)

134 `Mellow Yellow' Spirea

281

(1)

135 Ligularia `Britt-Marie Crawford'

282

(2)

Index

284

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