Gardening With Stone: Using Stone Features to Add Mystery, Magic, and Meaning to Your Garden

Whitner, Jan Kowalczewski;Younker, Linda Quartman;Kowalczewski, Jan

ISBN 10: 0028621344 / ISBN 13: 9780028621340

Verlag: Macmillan General Reference, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., 1999

Beschreibung

First Printing. A NEAR FINE, bright, clean, tight, collector-worthy copy sans rips/tears, stains, discoloration, etic. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED in full color photography (many full page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "Gardening with Stone" shows how American gardeners can create beautiful and lasting effects through the use of stone in pools, fountains, terraces, paths, walls, steps, and ornaments-as well as suggesting creative design solutions to common landscaping problems. An entire section is devoted to rock and stone plant habitats and how to recreate all kinds of natural landscapes featuring stone in your own garden. Certain to become the definitive title on the use of stone in American garden design, "Gardening with Stone" features stunning photographs, by noted photographer Linda Quartman Younker, of stone features in exemplary gardens throughout the United States." 212 pages. *NOTE: Due to size/weight of book additional shipping cost will be required for out-of-U.S. shipment. GB3.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007156

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Gardening With Stone: Using Stone Features to Add Mystery, Magic, and Meaning to Your Garden
• Verlag: Macmillan General Reference, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0028621344
• ISBN-13: 9780028621340
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

"Stone is eloquent, and it speaks in many voices. For gardeners stone is an infinitely suggestive material, rich with poetic, philosophical, and artistic meaning."— Jan Kowalczewski Whitner

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jan Kowalczewski Whitner is an author and editor specializing in garden design, history, and preservation. She has written several books, including Stonescaping and Northwest Garden Style, which was published in conjunction with a PBS program of the same name, also written by Whitner. Another program written by the author, "Hypertufa Trough," was nominated for an Emmy award. Whitner gardens in Seattle, Washington. Linda Quartman Younker is a freelance photographer whose work has appeared in numerous gardening and children's books, including Northwest Garden Style, Growing Herbs, What Is a Cat, and Where Do Horses Live, among others. She has contributed to magazines and newspapers such as Parade, House Beautiful, the Seattle Times, and Sunset. Younker's work has been exhibited in Washington State and Italy. She lives with her family on Bainbridge Island, Washington.