The layered garden : design lessons for year-round beauty from Brandywine Cottage / David L. Culp ; with Adam Levine ; photographs by Rob Cardillo.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2012Description: 312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781604692365
- 1604692367
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 635.0974 C968 | Available | 33111010793228 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Gardenmaking, in its finest form, is a celebration of life and of love. David and his book epitomize this." --Lauren Springer Ogden
Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering--interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter.
The Layered Garden shows you how to recreate Culp's majestic display. It starts with a basic lesson in layering--how to choose the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden, and how to maintain it. To illustrate how layering works, Culp takes you on a personal tour through each part of his celebrated garden: the woodland garden, the perennial border, the kitchen garden, the shrubbery, and the walled garden. The book culminates with a chapter dedicated to signature plants for all four seasons.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The layered garden -- The garden at Brandywine Cottage -- Signature plants through the seasons.
This book takes inspiration from Brandywine Cottage in Pennsylvania, a garden famous for its gorgeous and ever-changing display of plants. This non-stop parade of colour is created by "layering"--Interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over.