Patio: Garden Design & Inspiration - Hardcover

Durie, Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1865087874 ISBN 13: 9781865087870

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2003

Synopsis

With design instruction and horticulture tips, this guide provides all the necessary information and inspiration to create glamorous garden and patio spaces. Stunning photographs highlight unique, lavish, and award-winning landscape designs in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Each photograph is accompanied by a thorough discussion of the design and its elements, including watering requirements, featured plants, and optimal lighting. Step-by-step instructions allow gardeners to re-create Drurie's original designs.

About this title

About the Author:

Jamie Durie is the host of Backyard Blitz, which is currently Australian television's highest-rated garden show. He manages his own landscape design business and worked previously as a dancer, model, and gymnast who performed as an acrobat and trapeze artist and trained with the Cirque du Soleil. David Matheson is a professional freelance photographer with more than 10 years’ experience in travel, food, interiors and lifestyle photography.

From Booklist:

Thanks to his frequent appearances on his own gardening TV program, Durie is a familiar face to his fellow Australians. He also owns a landscaping business in Sydney, and this title offers both an introduction to his work and a sourcebook for landscape students, designers, and do-it-yourself homeowners. In language both personal and informative, Durie gives readers a basic overview of his approach to projects before he showcases his work in sections that focus on gardens with special features, such as water gardens and "people-friendly" gardens. A final section highlights Durie's favorite cultural influences (often Asian), followed by lists of his favorite plants. Throughout, he is careful to explain why he favors certain techniques and materials, and he shows a refreshing awareness of modern urban lifestyles. Examples of Durie's design drawings are sometimes poorly reproduced, but the color photographs are stunning. Even with the emphasis on Australian-friendly vegetation, this thoughtful title offers North Americans plenty of inspiration. Gillian Engberg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1865087874
• ISBN 13: 9781865087870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192