Garden design with foliage

Garden design with foliage by Judy Glattstein Download PDF EPUB FB2

The idea of using foliage texture and color as a primary element in garden design is one of great importance. Failure to do this will typically make garden spaces seem flat, uninspired, confused, or uninteresting.

Getting it right can really set a garden aglow. So the thesis of the book is an important one/5(4). This entry was posted in Foliage and tagged book, Color, Container design, Design, Dramatic Foliage Color, Foliage, Garden Books, Garden Design, Landscape Design on July 5, by Karen Chapman.

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Fine Foliage was published by St. Lynn's Press, Foliage comes in a mind-boggling variety of color, shape and growth habit. The ultimate foliage plant for shade, hostas offer versatility, durability and a seemingly limitless variety of forms, sizes and shades of green Growing Elephant Ear Plants in Your Garden Elephant ears bring to mind lush, tropical forests, adding drama to both gardens and containers.

When we wrote the original book Fine Foliage, we knew that addressing all of the other components of strong foliage based design would need extra focus in the follow-up book Gardening with Foliageberries, bark, thorns, rock, art, color echoes, and so much more were some of the things we touch on in that book in a multitude of ways.

"The Gardener's Garden is a sprawling worldwide compendium of more than great gardens. This is smorgasbord of a book, a platter offering delights to tease the palate."—The New York Times Book Review "The Garden design with foliage book foliage captured here is anything but garden variety."—Entertainment Weekly.

Each chapter is filled with plant suggestions and hints for successfully incorporating foliage into the garden. More than photographs illustrate foliage effects, from subtle to dramatic. This lively and information-rich book will benefit gardeners and landscape Garden design with foliage book alike.

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Garden design with foliage by Judy Glattstein; 2 editions; First published in ; Subjects: Landscape gardening, Leaves, Foliage plants. An essential illustrated resource of inspiration and practical advice. Author Marianne Majerus was one of three photographers for the seminal book by Prince Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales, Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated, published inwhich Camilla Swift of Gardens Illustrated praised for its photographs, "images so breathtaking I want to jump into them."/5.

Absolutely stunning combinations can be made with foliage plants by utilizing texture differences. This is one article in a series of 4 on container garden design.

Here are the links to the other three articles in this series: Container Garden Design - Color. Container Garden Design - Structure. Container Garden Design.

Get this from a library. Consider the leaf: foliage in garden design. [Judy Glattstein] -- "Consider the Leaf offers innovative possibilities for low-maintenance plantings in a wide range of climates, declaring that "anywhere you garden there are foliage plants just right for you.".

White stands out most next to black -- so use that same idea in garden design by combining plants with light-color flowers or foliage with darker ones.

A purple-leafed phormium makes a strong background for the white variegation in a scented geranium or the brightness of a pristine rose bloom.

Foliage Plants Add Texture to the Garden. It's not just about the flowers when it comes to selecting perennials for the landscape. The purple leaves of this bugbane (Actaea formerly Cimicifuga) hold its place in the shade garden until the white flowers appear in combining with purple and pink flowered perennials.

White is a strong color that draws the eye and is the last color visible in the fading light of evening. When I design a garden for a white house, I use white as a repeating element. I weave drifts of white flowers, white-variegated foliage, and white garden structures throughout the space to link house and garden.

For an eye-popping array of stunning foliage plants, check out my friend Karen Chapman’s book, Gardening with Foliage First. Related Posted in Blog, Garden Care & Design Tips, Uncategorized and tagged beautiful folaige perennials, Foliage, low maintenance perennials, perennial Geraniums.

Finding plants and features that contrast or complement is basic to a good garden design. Foliage that is lacy in appearance would highlight a plant with more rounded leaves.

Consider the year-round appearance of your prospective plants. Color: Color is the most obvious aspect of the landscape and may be the least understood.

A well-designed. Adding height and interest to the garden’s center are the evergreen Christmas ferns (Polystichumacrostichoides), hay-scented fern (Dennstaedtia punctilobula), dark red Astilbe xarendsii ‘Fanal’, the two-toned ‘Frances Williams’ hosta and umbrella-leaved astilboides (Astilboides tabularis).As you can see, a mix of exuberant foliage perennials makes a shady corner anything buy dark and Author: Meghan Shinn.

“A successful planting combination is as much about beautiful foliage as it is about flowers—that’s the premise of the upcoming book Gardening with Foliage First.”—Sunset “This is a useful resource for new gardeners testing their design teeth and for experienced horticulturalists looking for some new inspiration.

With its genius play on texture and color, Fine Foliage will almost make you forget that flowers exist. Or at the very least, that you don't need to rely on them for beauty in the garden.

Karen Chapman is proprietor of Le Jardinet, a custom container and landscape design business in the Seattle area. She writes regular garden-related articles for online and print publications, including Fine Author: Kylee Baumle.

This enchanting English cottage garden is a mix of perennials, vines, and shrubs. Clematis climbs over the arch with beds filled with fuchsia, catmint, campanula, delphiniums, foxgloves, hardy geranium, herbs, and lavender below.

The perfect antidote to spare spots as perennials and shrubs fill in, and to add all-season color during the times. Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day and Foliage Follow-Up for the month of March! With the official start of spring just four days away on March 19th at PM EST, there is excitement all around the garden as plants awaken from their winters sleep.