Garden Accents


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Handcrafted Garden Accents


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Perk up a porch, patio, or garden bed with 18 easy-to-make garden art projects that employ simple techniques such as decorative painting, wire bending, or metalwork. Most projects take only a few hours to complete




Garden Accents


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Garden Accents


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Hot Color, Dry Garden


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“Eye-popping proof that water-wise gardens are bold, beautiful and brilliantly hued.” —San Diego Home and Garden Dry weather defines the southwest, and it's getting dryer. As water becomes more precious, our gardens suffer. If we want to keep gardening, we must revolutionize our plant choices and garden practices. Hot Color, Dry Garden provides a joyful, color-filled way to exuberantly garden in low-water conditions. Garden expert Nan Sterman highlights inspiring examples of brilliant gardens filled with water-smart plants. You'll find information about designing for color using plants, architecture, and accessories, along with a plant directory that features drought-tolerant plants that dazzle.




Garden Accents


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An illustrated collection of sixty-three projects for building yard and garden accent pieces.




Small Garden Style


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A stylishly photographed guide to creating lush, layered, dramatic little gardens no matter the size of your available space--an urban patio, a tiny backyard, or even just a pot by your door. Petite gardens align with the movement to live smaller and create a life with less stuff and more room for living. But a more eco-friendly and efficient space doesn't have to sacrifice style. In Small Garden Style, garden designer Isa Hendry Eaton and lifestyle writer Jennifer Blaise Kramer show you how to use good design to create a joyful, elegant, and exciting yet compact outdoor living space for entertaining or relaxing. A style quiz helps you focus in on your own personal garden style, be it traditional, modern, colorful, eclectic, minimalist, or globally inspired, then utilize every inch of your yard by considering the horizontal, vertical, and overhead spaces. You'll learn how to design stunning planters and container gardens using succulents, grasses, vibrant-colored pots, and more. Hendry Eaton and Blaise Kramer recommend their favorite plants and decor for small gardens, along with lawn alternatives and inspiration for making garden accents such as a fire pit, front door wreath, instant mini orchard, boulder birdbath, patterned vines, perfumed wall, and faux fountain with cascading plants. However small your garden, Small Garden Style will transform it into a magical, modern outdoor oasis.




Creating Garden Accents


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This handbook shows readers how to create nearly two dozen projects for the garden. Many of the projects make use of ordinary building materials, such as copper plumbing pipes and fittings, and bagged concrete mixes. They include: copper sprinklers; an oriental bubbler fountain made from coloured stones; decorative birdhouses; copper plant stakes topped with metal and glass insects; a pergola; and a rustic garden bench.




Creating Garden Accents


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Projects include: Yin/yang fountain, copper sprinkler, clay pot birdbath, millstone fountain, wobbler, windmill, wire rabbit bean cage, turtle ornament, placemat birdfeeder, flower bed, copper chandelier, decorative birdhouse, candle tree, tealight candelabra, carved stones, door spring bug, birdhouse plant stand, twig & slat bench, porch swing, stained glass planter, copper gate, pipe pergola.




Beginner’s Guide to Garden Planning and Design


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Gardeners are generally always looking for inspiration. In the forward of Planning & Designing Your First Garden: 50 Ways to Add Style for Personal Creativity, P. Allen Smith states, "Helen has outlined 50 ways to add style to express one's personal creativity in the garden--when in fact her 50 will inspire at least 50 more ideas." Rather than force her own creative ideas on you, author, gardener, and horticulturalist, Helen Yoest teaches you to recognize and act on your own creativity. Easy to follow sections are divided into four basic priorities when thinking about your garden: Garden Basics, Garden Styles, Garden Elements and Your Garden Environment. Chapters include how to create rhythm, scale, and balance along with curb appeal to shape your owns ideas as well as a chapter on creating a sustainable garden environment where plants and animals can live together. Also learn about the importance of selecting the perfect space and sketching out your plan first, how to use containers effectively, as well as how to incorporate other features including water, walkways and walls. Let your imagination go wild and create an amazing space that will give back season after season!