Planting the landscape

Description:

From idea through implementation, Planting the Landscape shows you how to read the landscape. Planting design poses exciting but complex challenges for the landscape architect, demanding creativity, practical know-how, and the ability to integrate the natural with the planned-all through the living medium of plants that grow and change over time. This is a guide to both the art and the science of planting design-with step-by-step coverage of every stage of the design process, from initial idea through implementation. Combining history, design principles, and horticultural practice in a single volume, it provides the reader with a solid grasp of the history and evolution of specific design forms; environmental considerations and plant affinities; design concepts, principles, and analysis; how to create a design vocabulary and develop a plant palette; how to compose a planting design and the essentials of planting and maintenance. Planting the Landscape is an excellent design companion for landscape architecture professionals and students.

subjects: Landscape design,  Design,  Architecture,  Planting design,  Architecture du paysage,  Jardins,  Gardens,  Landscape gardening