Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue: Garden Design Books - J-T |
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Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy. In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:-
The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction. Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:-
Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section. |
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John Brooke's Garden Design Book |
0-86318-638-6 |
John Brooke |
Plants, gardens, diagrams |
The complete practical guides to planning, styling and planting any garden. Provides good design principles with planting categories of 1) the special, 2) the skeletons, 3) the decoratives, 4) the pretties and 5) infill. |
Low-Water Gardening |
0-460-86151-4 |
John Lucas |
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28 pages of good descriptions with uses, restrictions and cultivar name of trees and plants resistant to drought. Good design chapter. Creating and running the ideal garden with less water |
Making a Cottage Garden |
0-7135-2650-5 |
Faith and Geoff Whiten |
Plants and gardens |
Essay on cottage gardens. Good description Plant check-list of shrubs, roses, climbing and rambling roses, climbing plants, perennials, bulbs, annuals, biennials and herbs, which are authentic and can be obtained today. |
Making a Rose Garden |
0-297-83117-8 |
Ethne Clarke |
100 old-fashioned roses |
Good rose garden design essay. Garden designs: - cottage, Victorian rose, scented, terrace, garden for all seasons and heritage. 100 old-fashioned rose good descriptions, some with colour photo. Good descriptions of underplanting and companion planting plants |
Mediterranean Gardening |
84-273-0749-7 |
Heidi Gildemeister |
Mediterranean Plants |
How to create a Mediterranean Garden with plant cultivar data |
Plan and Design your garden a practical guide to designing and planting your garden |
1-84309-762-1 |
Peter McHoy |
15 plans and 100 colour photos |
Usefull garden design principles with the transition from structural design to planting plan well explained. 15 design plans with practical sections explained in detail on how to create them |
Plans for Small Gardens |
0-304-31101-4 |
Geoffrey K. Coombs |
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11 garden plans. 2 pages of plant associations. Thin book |
Ponds and Water Gardens |
0-7137-1861-7 |
Bill Heritage |
Pond plants and Ponds |
Pond design, construction and maintenance |
Popular Garden Designs |
0-572-01478-3 |
Guy and Donald Farthing |
40 plan and garden views |
A choice of 20 garden plans to meet the needs of a wide spectrum of home owners |
Really Small Gardens |
1-899988-71-8 |
Jill Billington |
150 colour photos of small gardens and 30 illustrated planting schemes |
Select plants and materials that make the most of a small space.Use illusion to make the garden look more spacious. The garden plans show what looks good in 99% of small gardens with the plants and hard landscaping materials stated. Shaping of plants to create 3 dimensional effects is explained as well as planting effects with variety of form, texture and habit.. Lists of plants for those planting effects. A very usefull book that requires reading and re-reading before designing your plot from it using your own style. |
Small Space Gardening gardening successfully in small spaces |
1-84309-764-8 |
Peter McHoy |
120 colour photos showing how to do something and explanatory diagrams |
Usefull design ideas with practical advice on how to construct the design. |
The Complete Book of Garden Design, Construction and Planting |
1-84188-172-4 |
David Stevens, Lucy Huntingdon and Richard Key |
Garden plans |
Elements of garden design, practical construction diagrams with detailed methodology of planting design and planting plans and plant lists |
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui How to apply the secrets of Chinese wisdom for health, wealth and happiness |
1-85230-882-6 |
Lillian Too |
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Explanation of Feng Shui with its principles and practice. This explains the principles and practice of living in harmony with your natural and man-made environment, and explains how, by making changes to your surroundings, you can foster good health, improve relationships and attract prosperity both at home and in business |
The Cottage Garden |
0-86318-415-4 |
Christopher Lloyd & Richard Bird |
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This analyses exactly what makes a cottage garden. All of Cottage garden plants essay. Cottage-garden features. 6 cottage garden plans help design your own garden |
The Country Diary Book of Creating a Butterfly Garden |
0-86350-203-2 |
E.J.M. Warren |
Butterflies and plants they like |
How to create a butterfly garden |
The Essential Gardener A personal guide to successful modern gardening |
1-85627-491-8 |
Dr Stefan Buczacki |
Plants and diagrams |
Interesting essay design section. Essay on maintaining your garden. Very Good descriptions with recommended cultivars of - vegetables, herbs, fruit, lawn, garden hedge, trees, shrubs, climbing plants, roses, herbaceous perennials, annuals and biennials, bulbs, alpine and rock garden plants, and water plants. A general gardening book which contains only the information that he believes the average gardener of 1993 actually requires |
The Feng Shui Garden Design your garden for health, wealth and happiness |
1-85410-546-9 |
Gill Hale |
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Feng Shui principles for the garden and creating a Feng Shui garden. Basic book |
The Garden Designer |
0-7112-0812-3 |
Robin Williams |
Gardens and plans |
Garden plans. 4 pages of the analysis, the zoning plan, the finished design and the working plan of the design process |
The Garden Sourcebook the essential guide to planning and planting |
1-85732-989-4 |
Caroline Boisset |
plants, gardens and plans |
Garden design - Assessment of the plot itself, what it offers and what its potential may be. Then, analyze each component in the garden - structural and architectural features, ornament, and, finally, the plants. Good descriptions of plants, some with photos |
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I made 1 Arsenic and Old Lace Cake Variation 5:- This recipe is taken from “Chocolate and Salted Caramel Squillionaire by Harry Eastwood (Page 140 in Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache - ISBN 9780593062364). This recipe is downright spoiled. Years of getting his own way mean that this squillionaire is opinionated, pedantic and often unreasonable. Patience is required at every level, but ....”
Ingredients
Equipment Method To make the caramel, place the tin of condensed milk in a medium saucepan (not non-stick). Fill the pan with boiling water until it has run over the top of the tin. Boil hard for 1 hour, remembering to top up the water. To make the biscuit base, put the butter and golden syrup in a heatproof dish in the oven for 5 minutes to melt. Crush the biscuits by blitzing in a food processor to get a sand consistency. Then, blitz the melted butter and syrup into the biscuit. Fork it into the 30 cup cases to about 12mm thick. Bake for 20 minutes in the middle of the oven, before taking out and placing onto a wire rack. The recipe states “Remove the tin of condensed milk from the water after 1 hour and open it carefully... Sprinkle in the salt flakes, give it a good stir and pour the thick caramel over the biscuit base”. I let it cool for 15 minutes, opened the tin and using a flexible spatula I ladled dollops onto the bases without adding the salt.
Place the cup cakes in the freezer for 20 minutes whilst the chocolate melts in a bowl over boiling water until is smooth and runny. Ladle a teaspoon of chocolate over each cake to make the third layer. Put cakes in the fridge for 20 minutes until cold. Keeps for 5 days in an airtight tin.
I suspect that it was not until a person had eaten 4 out the 20 consumed at the meeting that I took them to, that she may have decided that they were edible! |
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Library Pages
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The Garden Style chosen at the beginning defines what a garden should look like. Following this choice of Garden Style, then:-
Plant Association shows which plant combinations give pleasing flower or foliage colour combinations, then Plant Type gives growing conditions of a family of plants - ie Primulas - with lists of primulas with the same flower colour, foliage colour or height and where is suitable for those plants, followed by Plant Species gives data about a family of plants in a restricted format - ie without lists - as the lowest level of useful information (unless you are prepared to read the text in a whole book each time you want to use this particular species of plant).
Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden. Garden Cultivation gives specific information on veg, fruit, lawn, pond, etc. Garden Pests details garden pests/diseases and their control.
Practical Projects gives details on how to construct hard landscaping. |
THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 15,000:-
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when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-
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Ground Cover Herbs from Seed I often get asked what herbs are suited as ground covers. Customers tell me, "I hate cutting grass," or "I like trying something completely different, and I don't mind if my neighbours think I'm crazy to dig up my lawn." Herbal ground covers are very different, but their pleasing leaf textures and often showy masses of colour are becoming more popular in place of grass. Being the tough little critters they are, they need next to no care once established. And if you don't mind foliage and flowers that tickle your ankles and beyond, you can dispense with the weekly trysts with the lawnmower to keep things trim and proper. The biggest problem with herbal lawns is the start up cost. Regrettably, some of the finest low growing herbs are only increased by cuttings or division – the flowerless variety of english chamomile, Treneague, is a notable example. You need the payroll of a CEO to afford enough plants for an instant lawn. Or, you need the patience for many seasons of divide and spread to cover much ground starting with a few plants. Fortunately there are several good choices for herbs you can grow from seed. By far the most popular is wild thyme (Thymus praecox subsp. articus), also known as mother-of-thyme. It grows 4 to 6 inches high, has masses of rose-pink flowers in July, and grows fast enough to crowd out weeds. At 110,000 seeds per ounce, the seeds are very fine, much smaller than grass seeds, so it is a good idea to mix seeds with a filler like sand to avoid dropping 90% of your seed in 10% of the area to be covered. We recommend an ounce of seed per 1000 square feet. In the kitchen wild thyme is not commonly regarded as a culinary herb in North America, but European cooks have long used it in meat dishes just like the more famous English and French thymes (Thymus vulgaris). If nothing else, wild thyme will at least drive you from drink should you dare to consumer alcohol and the leaves at the same time. The combination causes a mother-of-a-hangover! Another popular choice for lawnless lawns is yarrow (Achillea millefolium). While its white, red or pink flowering stalks can reach a foot in height, its dense, many-divided leaves make for a cushion lawn that just invites a picnic, a snooze or other prostrate activities. I have seen yarrow used very successfully in small urban settings. especially under partial shade. If the flowers get too high, one or two runs a season with the lawnmower will keep things in check. Yarrow seeds are small and light, lighter than wild thyme. there are 175,000 seeds per ounce, and an ounce per 2500 square feet is the recommended sowing rate. Yarrow tea is insurance for colds and flus, which is a good thing if you are going to lie around in your lawn a lot. If you don't mind a more rangy and taller cover, Fassen's catnip (Nepeta x faassenii) is a good aromatic choice, growing up to 12 inches in height. Don't worry, cats are not as enamoured by this variety as they are by the much taller growing regular catnip (Nepeta cataria). Sow an ounce per 600 square feet. Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) is a good choice for warmer, sunny locales. It is a perennial, hardy to zone 6, with finely divided emerald leaves. The small daisy-like flowers are, of course, used to make the popular herbal tea. Be forewarned, there are those who insist that tea made from the Roman (sometimes also known as 'English') is superior to the annual German or Hungarian variety (Matricaria recutita), and there are others who argue just as strenuously the other way. As sides ten to fall along ethnic lines, we prefer to stay out of the debate! In any case, a Roman chamomile lawn is pure enchantment in many landscape settings. Again the seed are very fine – 155,000 per ounce – and one ounce will cover 2000 square feet. As with all seeds this small, it is crucial not to plant too deep; best simply to press the seeds, once broadcast, into the soil using a board or other object with a flat surface. |
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