Garden Stone: Creative Ideas, Practical Projects and Inspiration for Purely Decorative Uses

by Barbara Pleasant

The artful combination of plants and stonework, with all of their contrasting colors, textures, and shapes, brings drama, serenity, and even whimsy to gardens and landscapes. In Garden Stone, you'll learn how to use stone in combination with plants to create steps or walls, define boundaries, and set the mood for the garden you want to create. Stone enhances every garden setting: A collection of vegetables and herbs appears more abundant in stone...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158017406X
• ISBN13: 9781580174060
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Storey Books
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

A beautiful, practical book

This is a lovely book, full of practical advice, good ideas and useful tips. It's well written and easy to follow, perfect for anyone interested in adding stone to the garden or creating a garden in a stony site. But even those who may not have an application for the book will enjoy Dency Kane's gorgeous photographs. It's a great book for perusing and dreaming.

An informative and practical text

In Garden Stone: Creative Ideas, Practical Projects, And Inspiration For Purely Decorative Uses, gardening expert Barbara Pleasant has produced an impressive compendium of tips, tricks, techniques, suggestion, and original ideas for blending stone, plants, soil, water, and light to create gardens of enduring beauty and inspiration. The informative and practical text is wonderfully illustrated by Dency Kane's 250 full-color photographs of lush gardens and garden stonework taken from gardens throughout North America. More than forty different gardening projects are presented, along with instructional line drawings to complete stone projects in association with highlight plants that are especially effective when used in the company of stone. Garden Stone is a unique and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal and professional gardening reference collections.