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Beyond the Lawn: Unique Outdoor Spaces for Modern Living
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Product Description
This refreshing book offers myriad ideas for nontraditional outdoor spaces that are as beautiful as they are low maintenance. YouÆll discover how to banish cutting, watering, and weed worries forever by creating lovely outdoor spaces that replace the traditional grass lawn with rock walls, sculptures, native grasses, mosses, wildflowers, and more.
Davitt guides you through making design choices that suit your unique needs, such as determining which plants thrive in particular climates and soil conditions. He shows how to beautify your landscape with numerous materials and techniques, ultimately proving that it is possible to create a truly stunning garden without grass.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #449432 in Books
- Published on: 2004-09-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Homeowners reluctant to "make the investment of time and resources that lawns require" should consider gardens sans grass, insists garden designer Davitt-but while his ideas for rock gardens, ground covers and terraces are on the whole appealing, most look like they'd take more maintenance (and money) than a traditional lawn. In chapters that highlight pebbled gardens, bricked gardens, gardens with water and other themes, Davitt picks admirable specimens and then analyzes them according to "the look," "what works and why," "variations on a theme" (in which he makes suggestions for changes) and "where this style can be used"-a tactic that some readers might find helpfully consistent and others repetitively intrusive. One garden, with its pattern of contrasting stones, evokes a creek bed; another features a deck devoted to succulents. There are many different plans here, and plenty of illustrations, though the design of the pages themselves is blocky and not particularly attractive. Arial shots and layout drawings reveal the gardens' shapes clearly, while side notes with titles like "Nothing in a garden exists alone" and "What is a garden?" seek to add a kind of semi-philosophical gravitas. A book that belongs in a workroom rather than on the coffee table, this volume should offer disenchanted grass-growers plenty of new ideas. Color illustrations throughout.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"An array of miraculous garden makeovers makes Beyond the Lawn a fascinating read for anyone seeking inspiration to create a lawnless garden." Home magazine"
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Customer Reviews
Crafting a unique, personal, and relaxing atmosphere
Written by gardening expert Keith Davitt (winner of the Herald Award for Excellence in Garden Communication), Beyond The Lawn: Unique Outdoor Spaces For Modern Living is a simply beautiful and exceptionally "user friendly" sourcebook of ideas for creating harmony with stone, brick gravel, rock, water, herbs, conifers, planted pots, native and wild plants. Lavishly illustrated with full-color photography, Beyond The Lawn is a treat to page through and recommended for gardeners everywhere looking to add a bit of originality to the grounds outside their home. Offering a vast panoply of materials for crafting a unique, personal, and relaxing atmosphere, Beyond The Lawn is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to professional and personal gardening reference collections.
Many unusual beautiful gardens & good design analysis
This book is full of pictures of unusual and beautiful gardens all very different from one another. I especially enjoyed seeing the variety of what is possible. The text focuses mainly on design with discussion on style and analysis of what works and why. Although I think Keith Davitt's first book "Small Spaces Beautiful Gardens" was a superior book with more information on how each garden was created and before & after pictures, I still highly recommend this book for its many examples and design tips.
