Envisioning the Garden: Line, Scale, Distance, Form, Color, and Meaning

by Robert Mallet

Book Overview

What style to give a garden and how best to lay it out are perennial puzzles for creators of gardens. Gardener/designer Robert Mallet shows how the basic elements of design--line, scale, distance, shape, color, and other sensory associations--can open the viewer's outlook toward broad perspectives or, conversely, can lock us up in a cage. Reviewing all these elements, Mallet explains what really works, offering a range of practical ideas that can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393733424
• ISBN13: 9780393733426
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 9.3"