Book Description
The first new guide to topiary in over 80 years, this guide presents all the classic methods of formal plant shaping and includes 100 plans for indoor and outdoor plant creations anyone can make for themselves. Illustrated.
Author : Barbara Gallup
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
The first new guide to topiary in over 80 years, this guide presents all the classic methods of formal plant shaping and includes 100 plans for indoor and outdoor plant creations anyone can make for themselves. Illustrated.
Author : Jenny Hendy
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780754830863
This is a practical guide to the art of clipping, training and shaping plants. It offers fascinating insight into the art of topiary, with step-by-step instructions, spectacular photography and authoritative text. It shows how topiary can complement a range of garden styles and create design effects, such as defining an entranceway, marking a boundary or creating depth. Projects for beginners through to experienced gardeners show how to clip a spiral, create freehand figures, use topiary frames, train an arch, and tame a hedge. Jenny Hendy explains how topiary can be incorporated into garden styles, from traditional and contemporary to country-house and Japanese. A section on green architecture looks at larger topiary elements, including hedges, doorways and windows, and niches and alcoves. Achievable geometric shapes are also covered, from spheres and pyramids to turrets and helter-skelters. There are suggestions for more ambitious planting effects, such as knot gardens and parterres. Sculptural topiary is also explored, from the clipped creatures of cottage gardens to modern plant shaping. A plant directory then lists the best plants and the training to which they are suited.
Author : Charles Henry Curtis
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Topiary work
ISBN :
Author : Margherita Lombardi
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2001-06
Category : Topiary work
ISBN : 9780806941714
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Author : Baylor Chapman
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1579655513
A follow-up to the widely popular Flower Recipe Book, The Plant Recipe Book is the next great thing in interior plant design, providing simple steps showing anyone how to create stunning living plant decor. Each one of the 100 “recipes” specifies the type and quantity of plants needed; clearly numbered instructions detail each step; and 400 photographs show how to place every stem. Traditional pots and plant containers are used, but so are less conventional vehicles and methods, like shutters and planting under glass. A basic how-to chapter provides planting techniques, a tools and materials list, sourcing and plant care information, and expert advice.
Author : Ethne Clarke
Publisher : Seven Dials
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781857999280
A toparius was a Roman garden designer, the clipping and shaping of trees and shrubs is thus a very old art, yet in this book the reader is treated to designs such as a locomotive, an Egyptian temple and a leafy Loch Ness Monster.
Author : Linda Yang
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Espaliers
ISBN : 9780395875162
Shows how to shape vines and herbs, create topiary, and trim espaliered shrubs and fruit trees.
Author : Christopher Crowder
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Topiary work
ISBN : 9781861268167
Topiary is as old as gardening itself. From the gardens of ancient Egypt to the arts and crafts creations of Edwardian England and the private and public gardens of today, living green sculpture has been clipped into shape. With its bold silhouettes, topiary is an icon that defines the hand of man in creating gardens, expressing the gardener's ideas and firing the observer's imagination. Topics covered include · Assessing the site · Design and structural form: the outdoor space and the topiary piece · Preparation and planting; regular and long-term maintenance · Clipping techniques and step-by-step methods of creating topiary pieces · Hedge topiary, simple shapes; complex and figurative shapes · Rejuvenation, propagation, and solving problems Informative photographs offer ideas and starting points for creating your personal topiary work, while guidelines to creating specific shapes and designs are set out in simple diagrams that illustrate the stages of transformation from unruly shrub to stylised art form. AUTHOR: Chris Crowder is head gardener at Levens Hall in Cumbria, where he as worked since the mid-1980s. His special interest is in providing this unique 300-year-old topiary garden with a contemporary planting to complement the historic topiary specimens. He is also the author of a book on Levens and its garden. Michaeljon Ashworth is a fine art and sculpture historian who main interest and occupation lie in garden history, writing, lecturing and leading garden tours in the UK and Italy. 160 colour photos
Author : Janni Howker
Publisher : Random House
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1446453863
One of the most remarkable short stories in Janni Howker's BADGER ON THE BARGE is THE TOPIARY GARDEN, currently under option for filming It is the evocative, timeless story of Sally Beck, and the circumstances which led her to become Jack, the gardener's boy, working amongst the topiary bushes of a great country house garden. This powerful story has such impact for readers of any age that we are publishing it in a separate edition, with specially commissioned full colour paintings by Anthony Browne
Author : Sally Frecklington
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Hair
ISBN : 9781843170518
This little book tells you everything you need to know about creating yourwn shaven haven but were too afraid to ask. So go on, wax to the max.