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This title offers both the history of the pergola - how it has been used and enjoyed over the centuries - and a manual of design and planting for today's gardener. It begins with chapters featuring the various periods when pergolas and arbours have been key elements in the garden. It then looks at four of the very best pergolas found today. It also looks at the principles of design and the choice and care of suitable plants, before giving detailed drawings for six structures. The book seeks to be both fun and instructive.
This guide offers practical information and advice to both the beginner and the busy gardener. It contains full colour images and step-by-step instructions to help the reader get results. The book contains practical information on introducing arches and pergolas into your garden including: choosing a suitable style for your garden; freestanding and wall-leaning pergolas; painting and staining; erecting a simpel wooden arch; ideas for contemporary gardens; and selecting climbers.
Making the Most of Climbing Plants includes: -- everything you need to know to build, plant and maintain 10 vertical gardening projects -- a 'shopping list' for every project detailing equipment and materials needed to do the job -- step-by-step instructions and diagrams for each project from beginning to end -- a comprehensive guide to the best climbing plants and shrubs
Detailed, illustrated plans to build more than 50 garden structures, with construction drawings and lists of materials Expert construction advice—how to use tools, prepare sites, buy lumber, and apply outdoor finishes Tips for selecting plants that are compatible with the structures featured
Michael Littlewood's Landscape Detailing is now well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, other professionals and students designing external works. For this third edition it has been split into three volumes to give a greater depth of coverage than ever before. Volume 3 covers pergolas, arbours, arches, gazebos, summer houses, sheds, shelters, decks, footbridges, furniture and roofs. Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction. This is followed by a set of drawn-to-scale detail sheets. These details can be traced for direct incorporation into the set of contract drawings. A list of relevant references, bibliography and a list of association and institutions indicate where further guidance can be obtained. A ready reference for landscape designers and an indispensable time-saving tool, Landscape Detailing is an essential for the design office.
This book explores the intersection between architecture, pictorial representation, garden culture, and natural history and proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was a metaphor for the Renaissance mind as it negotiated a new cognitive topography between an internal rationalism, governed by classical verities, and the perpetually fluctuating outer world of global expansion.
Knot Gardens and Parterres is a fully illustrated guide to the history of these decorative features and shows how they relate to other contemporary arts and crafts. It also explains how to design and plant a knot garden.