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Title: Climbing Gardens: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden by Joan Clifton, Steven Wooster ISBN: 1-55297-610-6 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Using vertical space
Comment: The writer's aim is to make you think of your garden as "a three dimensional space, filled with color, texture, and a dynamic form which you can walk through, look at and feel." She encourages the reader to consider the vertical dimension of a garden using both plants and man-made features.
Most of the book focusses on man-made structures and their use in different garden styles from formal to romantic, and urban, and they also include the potager garden.
The most useful aspect of the book is the detailed instructions for making vertical elements such as an obelisk and a gazebo. The photographs throughout are gorgeous, although they tend to feature gardens far larger, lusher and more ornate than most of us aspire to.
The section on plants points out the importance of understanding each plant's means of attachment before selecting it for a specific site. Some have tendrils, for example, which will twine around wood or wire. Some need sturdier supports and some plants will sucker onto a wall. Choose wisely!
There is not much new in this book , but the photography is beautiful and the instructions might help you add a new vertical structure without great expense.
Rating: 4
Summary: Add a new dimension to your garden
Comment: Although I have enjoyed gardening for some time it never occurred to me to create a climbing garden. In "Climbing Gardens: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden" author Joan Clifton provides solid advice on how to create such a garden. This is not just a rose trellis type of climbing garden, there are a myriad of forms a climbing garden can take and she illustrates and discusses several of them. The book is illustrated with beautiful photographs of garden trellises, walkways, arches, and other structures covered with flowering foliage. On a more practical aspect it contains some more practical ideas such as the photograph of an archway covered with fruiting squash plants. It even has a few pictures and ideas for one of my favorite vines - wisteria. With instructions on how to build structures such as an obelisk or a living arbor, the book is very complete and a recommended read for anyone looking to add a new dimension to their garden by adding height and other structure.
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Title: Ortho's All About Vines and Climbers (Ortho's All About Gardening) by R. William Thomas, Ortho Books ISBN: 0897214269 Publisher: Ortho Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass by Liz Primeau, Andrew Layerle ISBN: 1552977102 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs by Tracy Disabato-Aust, Martin Knapp, Stacey Renee Peters, C. Colston Burrell ISBN: 0881925594 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start by C. Colston Burrell ISBN: 0875968066 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Complete Shade Gardener by George Schenk ISBN: 0881925349 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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