This is an idea book for your imagination, full of concepts, images, and principles that can help you take what is now a yard and make it into an enchanted gardena landscape full of personal meaning and magic. Julie Moir Messervy lends her spiritual sensibility and sensual writing style to a book about gardening as an act of creating emotional space. Through meditative and hands-on exercises, garden design tips, anecdotes drawn from Messervys gardening experiences and those of her clients, students, and family, and thoroughly engaging prose, we come to realize that the creative process is both a personal journey and a method for giving life to our own gardens. Illustrated with Barbara M. Bergers evocative charcoal drawings of the gardens of dreams and the imagination. Julie Moir Messervy is a renowned landscape designer, prolific garden lecturer, and critically acclaimed author whose prior books include Contemplative Gardens and The Inward Garden. She has collaborated on numerous landscape design projects, including a new Music Garden in Boston with legendary musician Yo-Yo Ma. This project will be the subject of a documentary film that will open at the Venice Film Festival in Fall 1997, and will air on PBS in early 1998.

The Magic Land: Designing Your Own Enchanted Garden

Messervy, Julie Moir

Arts & Photography

Macmillan

Tenshin-En: The Garden of the Heart of Heaven

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A wondrous feast for the eyes and spirit, this volume takes readers around the globe to 35 unique gardens that inspire reverie and reflection.

Contemplative Gardens

Abell, Sam

Howell Pr

In this groundbreaking book, noted landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy and bestselling author Sarah Susanka reveal how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony. After all, who doesn't yearn for a landscape that is as well designed as the interior of their home? In "Outside the Not So Big House," Julie and Sarah teach you everything you need to know about the design concepts essential to extending your home beyond its four walls. Lushly photographed and illustrated with vivid drawings, "Outside the Not So Big House" explores how to build pathways and journeys in your gardens; how to make the most of your site; how to use details to bring it all together. Twenty homes from across the country aptly illustrate these easy-to-grasp design ideas. Fans of Sarah's previous Not So Big books will be pleased to discover not only Julie's clear, concise prose but also a new vision for creating home.

Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home

Susanka, Sarah

Taunton Press

Would you like to make your outdoor living spaces a beautiful, functional extension of your home? Home Outside will give you all the big picture design concepts you need to create an outdoor paradise -- and all the step-by-step details to bring your vision to life. Acclaimed landscape designer and award-winning author Julie Moir Messervy takes you through seven key concepts that can help you transform your landscape -- and your lifestyle. <ul>
<li>Pleasure Ground</li> <li>Lay of the Land</li> <li>Big Moves</li> <li>Finding Your Comfort Zone</li> <li>Making It Flow</li> <li>Placing the Pieces</li> <li>Sensory Pleasures</li> </ul>
For every part of your property, the author helps you see it through the eyes of a designer -- explaining concepts in simple, understandable language and providing great tips for pulling it all together. You'll learn how to create a front yard that's warm and inviting to friends and neighbors. A backyard that's friendly, functional and relaxing for any kind of entertaining. And for those quiet moments you may need from time to time, you'll learn how to create peaceful spaces that feel like your own private sanctuary. With all the insights of Julie Messervy, 358 photos and 72 drawings, Home Outside delivers everything you need to make the great outdoors an important part of your home.

Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love

Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home (Susanka)

Out is in! In recent years, there’s been a boom in building and refurbishing outdoor rooms and spaces. More and more, homeowners, landscape designers, and builders are transforming backyards, side yards, and patios into comfortable, attractive, and usable living spaces that provide a beautiful setting and improve curb appeal. Landscaping Ideas that Work is the most comprehensive resource of inspired design ideas and practical solutions for all landscaping and outdoor living spaces. With practical design advice as well as over 350 innovative ideas and photographs, this is the only sourcebook you’ll ever need for smart design, buying, and installation decisions for your outdoor digs. Extend your living space to the great outdoors with Landscaping Ideas that Work. Landscaping often involves the harmonious design of many disparate elements, which creates confusion and inertia for homeowners who are trying to decide not only what to do, but where to start. Landscaping Ideas that Work covers front, back, and side yards, and provides you with strategies for combining elements and creating spaces that work for you and your home; innovative ideas for transforming all aspects of your yard into inviting outdoor spaces; and designs for more sustainable landscapes and gardens. Learn how to fully design your landscape as well as create: <ul>
<li>Spaces that work</li> <li>Open air rooms</li> <li>Fences, walls, and hedges</li> <li>Paths and walkways</li> <li>Plantings</li> <li>Details in the landscape</li> </ul>
Landscape Ideas that Work offers you a practical guide to landscaping materials and design considerations as well as tips for working with professionals. So, get out there, soak in some vitamin D, and enjoy the cozy feeling of home even when you’re outside.

Landscaping Ideas that Work

Homeowners looking to revitalize their yards will absolutely love the more than 350 innovative design suggestions presented in New Landscaping Ideas that Work. In it, practical design advice is paired with the author's 30+ years of expertise to create a complete do-it-yourself guide and primer for homeowners looking to transform all aspects of their yard into inviting outdoor spaces. <ul>
<li>design strategies for combining elements and creating spaces that work for them and their home</li> <li>tips for working effectively with landscaping professionals </li> <li>innovative ideas for transforming all aspects of their yard into inviting outdoor spaces </li> <li>strategies for designing more sustainable landscapes and gardens</li> </ul>
Practical design advice as well as over 350 innovative ideas combine to give homeowners the only sourcebook they'll need to make smart design, buying, and installation decisions.

New Landscaping Ideas that Work

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