GARDENER'S BOOK OF PATTERNS: A Directory

The Royal Horticultural Society in conjunction with publishers Thames & Hudson have created a beautiful mix of design, style and inspiration with over 500 colour illustrations. With plant hardiness charts, glossary and dreamy photographs of swimming pools, patterned pots, lit cascading steps, mosaics, cobblestones, miniature mosses and succulents and alpines, to meadows and mixing it up. When you look at a garden, you may feel drawn to plants whose colours and shapes have been arranged in a particular way. There is something about patterns that sets our minds alight. It serves many purposes - instantly gives a design or space order and structure, creates rhythm and make a garden or area feel unified and complete. This unique and practical guide to creating mood, proportion and scale is packed with inspiring photographs of gardens, borders and features with a wealth of ideas for adapting schemes to fit the area being planted including 'natural' designs as well as more formal approaches. Covers leaf shape and texture, garden layouts, symmetrical and formal, borders and bedding, patios, paths and decks, wall, fences and structures, patterns and water, patterns in garden furniture and large scale patterns. Very glossy paper, 224pp, 19 x 24.6cm, hundreds of colour photos.
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