Cottage Garden Planting Plan
Creating a cottage-style, drought-resistant planting design for a cottage front garden. This plan is for the front garden of a 1850 farmworkers cottage. The soil is a sandy loam and the garden faces southwest. This makes it sunny, but exposed to ... [... more]
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Dynamic Landscape: Design, Ecology and Management of ...
 A good collection of articles by various authors: A good collection of articles by various authors. They recognized the fact that people cannot have 100% control of the end result of a planting design, and tried to guide instead of taming the plants. A [... more]
CDN$120.95
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Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual
A good site construction reference book for architects, landscape architects and engineers: Detailing is difficult for young design professionals. College education does not cover enough detail design, the only ways to learn how to develop details are: 1) [... more]
CDN$66.95
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Big Bim Little Bim: The Practical Approach to Building ...
A must-have for students, design professionals, owners, facility managers, and contractors!: To most people, BIM just means "Building Information Modeling." For Finith E. Jernigan, AIA, BIM is "Beyond Information Modeling." "bim ( [... more]
CDN$30.05
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Western Landscaping Book
A fine companion to "Western Garden Book": Famous Landscape Architect Thomas Church once wrote: "Landscaping is logical, down-to-earth and aimed at making your plot of ground produce what you want and need from it." The original [... more]
CDN$30.05
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
a bad book for architects: One of the most damaging books that has ever flooded architectural education. The book is the dullest and uninspiring compilation of platitudes without any critical referent. To the problems of architecture and architectural [... more]
CDN$53.99
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Urban Gardens: Plans and Planting Designs
Author: Ann-Marie Powell Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6 EAN: 9781844031535 ISBN: 1844031535 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2005-05-28 [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space
A great attempt with an emphasis on the horticultural aspect of Planting Design: There are three main factors to consider in Planting Design: aesthetics, horticulture, and symbolism of plants. "Gardeners and garden designers seek inspiration from a [... more]
CDN$39.95
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The Planting Design Handbook
Good discussions on design: This is one of the few books that actually have some discussions on the design aspect of Planting Design. It involves colors, form and shapes of plants and spatial arrangement. Good discussions. Gang Chen, Author of " [... more]
CDN$72.93
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Planting Design Illustrated
Excellent, practical and informative!: Chen really knows his stuff. This book is well organized, inspiring and informative. Planting Design Illustrated is one of the few books that actually discuss the design aspect of planting design. I like the plant [... more]
CDN$37.45
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Professional Planting Design: An Architectural and ...
A practical book: In almost every landscape architect's office, you can find two kinds of people: the designers who layout the design and do the color renderings and presentation drawings, and the horticulturists who select the plants. This book will [... more]
CDN$65.99
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Planting Design: A Manual Of Theory And Practice
I like this book: I like this book. Its strength is in the design aspect of planting design. Nelson discusses seasonal effects of plants, lines, form, texture, color, scale and angle of vision. He also explores some basic design principles: repetition, [... more]
CDN$39.38
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