<p>Explains how to plan a garden, looks at a variety of styles, and shows how to make use of pools, statues, outdoor furniture, and specific types of plants</p>

Garden Design and Style: The Essence of the Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dixon, Trisha

Gardening & Landscape Design

Angus&Robertson

This is a guide to creating harmony and order in a garden that is, above all, practical. The book provides examples of sturdy fences and hedges, and how to achieve symmetry and perspective from a small vegetable garden to a large garden that borders the countryside beyond. There is also useful information on companion planting and biodynamic farming as well as helpful hints on planning and planting herb gardens and orchards, and creating eye-catching effects with flowers and foliage. Avenues, alleys, outdoor rooms and weather features are among the many other topics included for the more ambitious gardener.

Country Garden

Harpercollins

<p>Adagio is a charming treatise on slow gardening and the importance of slowing down and enjoying life. At the same time, it has an environmental message regarding living ethically and sustainably. This message is delivered in Trisha Dixon's inimitable style, as she seamlessly blends personal anecdote with musings and facts, drawing on her gardening background and her wide-ranging interests in philosophy, music, art, nature and the environment. It will appeal to gardeners and dreamers alike - anyone, in fact, who yearns for a more environmentally-attune life. </p>

Adagio: Living & Gardening Mindfully

MURDOCH BOOKS

Since the 1988 publication of their first book on Edna Walling’s work, Garden in Time, Trisha Dixon and Jennie Churchill have maintained their strong interest in her life and career, leading to the discovery of many unpublished, original Walling plans – some treasured, many tucked into forgotten dusty corners, others thought lost forever. Edna Walling excelled as an artist, translating her design concepts into superb watercolor plans which exquisitely convey the ambience of the finished gardens she intended to create, as well as providing valuable insight into her design principles. The Vision of Edna Walling contains over 50 of these beautiful and evocative watercolors. Unique works of art, the plans trace Walling’s long and productive career and provide a lasting legacy of her extraordinary talent. Edna Walling’s consummate skill lay in the creation of gardens of intelligent design – yet they were also romantic gardens and peaceful retreats for their owners. In her own words: ‘There should be intellectual enjoyment as well as emotional pleasure in the contemplation of our gardens, and this will only come with good but simple design.’ As Australia’s most significant landscape designer, Walling’s garden designs and publications remain influential; motivating, delighting and educating the Australian gardening public as much today as when they were first produced.

The Vision of Edna Walling: Garden Plans 1920-1951

Arts & Photography

Churchill, Jennie

Architecture

Bloomings Books Pty Ltd

For too long, Australians have been dominated by European gardening trends. Gordon Ford, like no other landscape designer before him, mastered the natural Australian style. Australia has unique conditions and, in terms of our indigenous species, this ancient continent can boast high levels of floristic integrity quite unknown to Europeans. Gordon Ford was early influenced by the English natural style landscape school of the eighteenth century. But his great skill has been to work with Australia’s natural elements and to develop gardens that not only honored the rugged beauty of the Australian landscape, but did so in a way that captured its apparent timelessness – his hardens look as if they have always been there. Long revered as a landscaper, carrying on in the tradition of Ellis Stones and Edna Walling, Gordon Ford is now recognized as one of Australia’s leading contemporary ‘design visionaries’. In shaping our visual world, Gordon focused on the essential balance between mass and void in his designs. This balance of the natural elements of rocks, water, trees and other plants achieves a timeless harmony, so that we feel totally satisfied but uncertain s to where Mother Nature starts and Gordon Ford finishes.

Gordon Ford: the Natural Australian Garden: the Natural Australian Garden

Stokes, Julie

Ford, Gordon

Ford, Gwen

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