Peek into hundreds of private backyards, where artists have crafted the most charming and intimate areas! Discover delightful dens hidden in the foliage or tucked on tiny terraces with beautiful vistas. Explore innovative ideas for designing and decorating private porches, patios, pagodas, and decks that provide the perfect space for outdoor living and the intimacy of a small room. This book is packed with inspiration for spaces that provide escape, relaxation, meditation, and a small refuge for gathering. Share a glass of refreshment beneath generous branches of a nearby tree, laze about in a hammock, or stretch out on a bench and admire the tranquility of a pond, while relishing your secret hideaway. This book is sure to motivate all who tire of life's everyday hassles to create their own intimate outdoor space.

Petite Patios & Intimate Outdoor Spaces

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Keil, Gisela

Gardening & Landscape Design

Schiffer_Publishing

Flowerbeds are among the most poetic elements in any garden, as they highlight the various moods of the seasons with their shapes, colors and scents. An inspirational guide to how flowerbeds can be integrated for best effect into a garden, Fabulous Flowerbeds uses delightful examples to demonstrate that flowers, roses, shrubs, grasses and ferns are simply the gardener's version of the painter's palette. It includes: * Over 160 impressive photos to inspire readers * Examples of plants for all seasons and conditions * Guidance in making the correct choice to combine plants according to their dominance and height, shape, color and flowering season so that flowerbeds can develop to their full charm and thrive well Fabulous Flowerbeds describes, with beautiful photographs, how dreams in bloom can come true and that there is room for them in even the smallest of gardens.

Fabulous Flowerbeds: Inspirtion/Planting/Care

Becker, Jürgen

Horticulture

Make the most out of every area of the garden, big or small with this inspirational book. Packed with over 200 stunning pictures, the book is separated into five sections which give tips and hints on how to transform ?tired? areas of any garden into an oasis. Whether adding a new patio, creating a seating area or an area by the pool, Garden Magic has lots of magical ideas to help get the look and feel you want. Just as important as the structural elements in the garden are the flowers. Find out which plants to put where to achieve the most impact and effect; which colors to use and how to build up structure. The book also looks at the use of more traditional elements in the garden through to contemporary use of water features from fountains to entire walls of water and even how to cover up or screen off those unsightly objects in the garden such as compost heaps and dustbins.

Garden Magic: Inspired Garden Design

Rogers, Gary

Whether you're planting your first flowers or perfecting your master garden, this luminous daybook takes you around the world of gardens for a daily dose of inspiration. Anyone who loves their garden knows that there's something happening in nature every day of the year. Whether it's the first crocus of spring, summer's explosion of colors, fall's abundant harvest, or the renewing dormancy of winter these outdoor sanctuaries offer daily opportunities for investigation, contemplation, and appreciation. This stunning daybook offers 365 elegant photos of some of the world's most exquisite gardens, following the yearly cycle of growth and rebirth. Each photo is accompanied by engaging texts such as planting tips, design techniques, natural history, and botanical facts that provide both ideas and helpful information. In addition, there is room on each spread for gardeners to record and preserve their own daily observations and reflections. The perfect keepsake for gardeners of all levels of expertise, this beautiful daybook deepens the rewards of gardening all year round.

A Year in the Garden: 365 Inspirational Gardens and Gardening Tips

Prestel

From modern to classical, the most beautiful ideas from Germany and around the world. 125 full-page, breathtakingly beautiful photos in extra large format, plus 125 corresponding pages of garden procedures. Unique printing quality

Garden & Terrace: The Big Book of Ideas

Becker Joest Volk Verlag